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| Photo: Fisk University's Jubilee Singers |
Africans inwards America using music to fund populace educational activity for Africans. "A band of negro singers, organized inwards 1869 past times George White to assistance inwards securing funds for the Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn., a academy for freedmen founded before long afterward the war.
They made their commencement swell success inwards the Gilmore Jubilee Concerts inwards Boston together with were known thereafter equally the "Jubilee Singers;" made several concert tours inwards Europe, coming together everywhere amongst the nearly enthusiastic receptions, together with attracting the attending of European composers to the negro melodies. These concerts gave the commencement intimation to many Europeans composers that America had a folk-song of her own."
-- Photo together with Excerpt from the mass The American History together with Encyclopedia of Music, Irving Squire, London 1908.
Video courtesy of Smithsonian Folkways
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