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Jubilee quartets were popular African-American religious musical groups in the first half of the 20th century. The name derives from the Fisk Jubilee Singers , a group of singers organized by George L. White at Fisk University in 1871 to sing Negro spirituals .
Book of Jubilee Songs and Plantation melodies as arranged by Jacob J. Sawyer for the Original Nashville Students. Published in 1884. The Original Nashville Students, also referred to as the Original Tennessee Jubilee and Plantation Singers, the Nashville Students, and H. B. Thearle's Nashville Students, were an ensemble of eight or nine African-American jubilee singers.
Fisk Jubilee Singers, circa 1870s. The singers were organized as a fundraising effort for Fisk University. The historically black college in Nashville, Tennessee, was founded by the American Missionary Association and local supporters after the end of the American Civil War to educate freedmen and other young African Americans.
The music is jaunty, versatile and imaginative.... Mary Boland is the queen of the book and the performance is a carnival of comic delights." [5] Burns Mantle of the NY Daily News declared Jubilee was "the most satisfying musical comedy produced in an American theatre within the length of trustworthy memories."
African American musical styles became an integral part of American popular music through blues, jazz, rhythm and blues, and then rock and roll, soul, and hip hop; all of these styles were consumed by Americans of all races, but were created in African American styles and idioms before eventually becoming common in performance and consumption ...
The Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet begins performing on WBT, a powerful radio station in Charlotte, North Carolina, creating a new style of African-American vocal music. [ 330 ] An interracial group, consisting of Benny Goodman , Teddy Wilson and Gene Krupa , plays at the Congress Hotel in Chicago, the first such group to play in a large ...
Work then taught in Tullahoma, Tennessee and worked in the library at Fisk University, before taking an appointment as a Latin and history instructor at Fisk in 1904. [3] [2] His colleague, instructor and registrar Minnie Lou Crosthwaite, later commented on his deep interest in the "progress and welfare of his students", though he had conflicts with others in the Fisk music department.
Country Music Jubilee Souvenir Picture Album (third edition, 1957) Barry McCloud (1995) Definitive Country: The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Country Music and Its Performers, ISBN 0-399-52144-5; Gentry, Linnell (1972). A History and Encyclopedia of Country, Western, and Gospel Music. Scholarly Press. ISBN 0-403-01358-5.. "Ozark Jubilee".