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The Jubilee Singers, and Their Campaign for Twenty Thousand Dollars.
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Blockson 88: “The Jubilee Singers from Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, travelled throughout the United States and Europe. They were received by Queen Victoria and other royalty, and made traditional spirituals famous around the world. Their singing tours provided the funds to build Jubilee Hall, one of the oldest buildings on the Fisk campus. This book gives the history of Fisk, biographies of the singers and some of the songs they arranged and popularized.”
The Jubilee Singers, at this time, had been organized and were led by a former Union army sergeant and Fisk University treasurer, George L. White. Pages 163–[221] prints the preface by Theodore F. Seward and their Jubilee Songs, with scored music and lyrics. Comprehensive history of this Southern singing group, up to this date.
Description: The Jubilee Singers, and Their Campaign for Twenty Thousand Dollars.
Boston: Lee & Shepard, Publishers. New York: Lee, Shepard and Dillingham, 1873. First edition. Frontis. with tissue guard, 219, [1 (blank)], [1 (Index to Music)]pp. Publisher’s pebbled and gilt-lettered cloth. Illus. with numerous plates, portrait engravings taken from photographs. Small losses to cloth at head and heel of spine; rear board with light rubbing; trifle binding wear; a clean and very good copy.
[3728077]Work p436. Blockson, Afro-Americana Exhibition… 88. Revitt, Southern Hymnody, 76.
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