Spirituals and the Birth of a Black Entertainment Industry: (Music in American Life)
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Spirituals and the Birth of a Black Entertainment Industry: (Music in American Life)
Spirituals and the Birth of a Black Entertainment Industry: (Music in American Life)

Spirituals and the Birth of a Black Entertainment Industry: (Music in American Life)

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Sandra Jean Graham (Author)  

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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 to 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 lay the foundation for a black entertainment industry whose artistic, financial, and cultural practices extended into the twentieth century. A companion website contains jubilee troupe personnel, recordings, and profiles of 85 jubilee groups. Please go to: http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/graham/spirituals/ 22 black & white photographs, 2 charts, 38 music examples, 5 tables, 3 figures CPSIA choking or other US hazard warning - No California Proposition 65 hazard warning necessary
Sandra Jean Graham is an associate professor of music at Babson College.
  • Contributor: Sandra Jean Graham
  • Imprint: University of Illinois Press
  • ISBN13: 9780252041631
  • Number of Pages: 360
  • Packaged Dimensions: 156x235x30mm
  • Format: Hardback
  • Publisher: University of Illinois Press
  • Release Date: 2018-02-26
  • Series: Music in American Life
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Biography: Sandra Jean Graham is an associate professor of music at Babson College.

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