(Historically Black College or University) Fisk University, located in Nashville, Tennessee, who performed it in places such as churches or small concert halls, and categorized the song as an early form of Gospel music, a popular sacred-genre amongst African Americans. (PII) The Fisk Jubilee Singers originated as fundraising entertainment that displayed black performers.(SIV) The few black concert performers before the plight of the Fisk Jubilee Singers, such as Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield (The
This group, formed after the end of the Civil War, was made up of African-American students, some of whom were former slaves. They were educated scholars who studied music and history alike at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee (Roy 38). They came from different backgrounds, but taught one another the spirituals that they knew the same way that slaves would have done through oral tradition and the transmission of songs by ear (Epstein 61)
performers. The people and events that really caught my attention were the concert singers, Minstrelsies, Jubilee songs, and brass bands. Born as a slave, a girl by the name of Elizabeth Greenfield moved to Philadelphia. She moved there with her Mistress and her parents. Luckily while in Philadelphia they were set free. At the age of forty-two she moved to buffalo New York in order to embark on new opportunities as a singer. When she reached New York opportunity came knocking. She began a career of concert
was just produced and distributed by record companies to exploit the idea of prolonged cruel treatment of African Americans around the 1920s. The blues was adopted and exploited by professional singers and songwriters that wanted to make the genre universally accepted so they could make the most profit. Singers and songwriters changed their styles and voice to adapt to the growing popularity of blues music, “I guess I would have done anything to get recorded – it just happened to be a blues contest
concealed in every verse! Spirituals were not written, but transferred from slave to slave orally. In 1871, a group of students from Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, formed a choir called the Jubilee Singers. Fisk was an University designed to educate former slaves. This choir of Freedmen performed concerts to raise money for their school. The Jubilee singers helped to preserve the songs of the American slaves. Slaves were not allowed the opportunity of literacy, so spirituals were not written
the jobs were. They would make more money in a week in Chicago than they did where they had come from. All blues musicians, amazingly enough, came from about 100 miles of each other. Muddy Waters was, no doubt, one of the top Electric Delta Blues singers. He sold the Blues; he felt absolutely everything in his music. Some even go as are to call him the Godfather of the Blues. Howlin’ Wolf and Muddy Water both had something in common other than their genre and sound – their music was written by the
Springfield Republican. Attending Harvard was W.E.B.'s longtime dream, however after receiving a scholarship to Fisk University in Nashville he gladly accepted. Du Bois was amazed by the South, he felt a home on the campus of Fisk. William had never been surrounded by fellow blacks, and he began to understand the plight of the Negro. He enjoyed concerts given by Fisk's Jubilee Singers, giving him faith about blacks, and how they will have a better life to come. However, after visiting back home he
Sissieretta Jones (Black Patti) Mathilda Sissieretta Jones or more commonly known to the world as Black Patti was an American Soprano opera singer who in June of 1892 had become to first ever black women to be to perform live at Carnegie Hall. This performance would not only determine her position was one of the greatest singers of her time, but one of the greatest singer of all. She was born to the name Mathilda Sissieretta Joyner in January of 1869 from Portsmouth Virginia. After moving to Rhode Island
influence they were not as overtly African as other forms of music. Therefore slave masters did not view as threatening. The theme of most negro spirituals was freedom Jubilee For a while after slavery negro spiritiuals were seen as crude and embarrassing. That is until the Fisk Jubilee singers toured the country in 1871 these singers brought negro spirituals to white audiences this gave it national and international attention. In the 1900s Negro spirituals slowly became a tradition amongst black
escape to free states 1861- American Civil War begins 1863- President Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation 1865- American Civil War ends 1867- Collections of spirituals published, songs known now as Gospel 1870- Students, called Fisk Jubilee Singers, perform spirituals across the nation 1920- Evangelistic Movement integrates styles of music with gospel 1947- Music style combining jazz, gospel and blues named Rhythm & Blues 1948- Rhythm & Blues helps shape Rock and Roll 1960- Twenty
African American music could not possibly be explained in six pages however the emotion behind their vocal and instrumental originalities can. African American music has more emotion and deeply rooted ancestry than most if not all music in history. Their music has rich culture and the pain, sorrow, or joy can be heard in their music. Music has created entertainment, jobs, and history for people throughout the ages. African American music has a history unlike any other that sets it apart from the
The term Romantic is “Term applied to music of the 19th century. Romantic music had looser and more extended forms, greater experimentation with harmony and texture, richly expressive and memorable melodies, improved musical instruments, an interest in musical nationalism, and a view of music as a moral force, in which there was a link between the artist’ inner lives and the world around them” (Burkholder, p. A16). With Romanticism, composers looked for ways to express intense emotions through their