THE JUBILEE SINGERS AND THEIR SONGS
BY: J. B. T. MARSH

DESCRIPTION:
-FISK UNIVERSITY WAS FOUNDED IN 1866 TO PROVIDE HIGHER EDUCATION TO AFRICAN-AMERICANS WHO BECAME FREE AFTER THE CIVIL WAR. TO RAISE MONEY FOR THE INSTITUTION, THE SCHOOL`S CHORUS — KNOWN AS THE JUBILEE SINGERS — BEGAN PERFORMING CONCERTS OF NEGRO FOLKSONGS AND SPIRITUALS. THEIR POPULARITY AND FAME SPREAD RAPIDLY, AND BY 1880, IT HAD TOURED THE NORTHERN STATES, PERFORMED AT BOSTON`S WORLD PEACE JUBILEE AND AT THE WHITE HOUSE, SUNG FOR QUEEN VICTORIA, AND TOURED GREAT BRITAIN AND EUROPE.

-THE BOOK RECOUNTS THEIR REMARKABLE STORY AND IS SUPPLEMENTED BY 139 GREAT SPIRITUALS, COMPLETE WITH TEXTS, AND FULLY NOTATED IN BOTH OPEN SCORE AND IN A TWO-STAVE KEYBOARD REDUCTION IDEAL FOR REHEARSAL AND PERFORMANCE. SONGS INCLUDE SUCH ALL-TIME FAVORITES AS 'DOWN BY THE RIVER,' 'GO DOWN, MOSES,' 'WAY OVER JORDAN.' 'THIS OLD-TIME RELIGION,' AND MANY, MANY MORE.

-REPRINT OF THE 1892 EDITION.