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Spirituals and the birth of a Black entertainment industry / Sandra Jean Graham.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML3556 .G77 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Graham, Sandra J. (Sandra Jean), author.
- Series:
- Music in American life
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Music--History and criticism.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Music.
- Jubilee singers.
- Spirituals (Songs)--United States--19th century--History and criticism.
- Spirituals (Songs).
- Minstrel shows--United States--History--19th century.
- Minstrel shows.
- History.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 330 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- Spirituals performed by jubilee troupes became a sensation in post-Civil War America. First brought to the stage by choral ensembles like the Fisk Jubilee Singers, spirituals anchored a wide range of late nineteenth-century entertainments, including minstrelsy, variety, and plays by both black and white companies. In the first book-length treatment of postbellum spirituals in theatrical entertainments, Sandra Jean Graham mines a trove of resources of chart the spiritual's journey from the private lives of slaves to the concert stage. Graham navigates the conflicting agendas of those who, in adapting spirituals for their own ends, sold conceptions of racial identity to their patrons. In so doing they laid the foundation for a black entertainment industry whose artistic, financial, and cultural practices extended into the twentieth century. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 The Folk Spiritual 1
- Part 1 The Rise of a Jubilee Industry
- 2 The Jubilee Singers of Fisk University 17
- 3 The Fisk Concert Spiritual 48
- 4 Innovators, Imitators, and a Jubilee Industry 82
- Part 2 Spirituals for the Masses
- 5 The Minstrel Show Gets Religion 125
- 6 Commercial Spirituals 144
- 7 Spirituals in Uncle Tom Shows, Melodramas, and Spectacles 183
- 8 Blurring Boundaries between Traditional and Commercial 224.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780252041631
- 0252041631
- 9780252083273
- 025208327X
- OCLC:
- 1004765337
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