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Subject: USA Jubilee - Fisk Jubilee Singers From: John in Brisbane Date: 27 Feb 00 - 07:04 PM I am trying to track down the publication date of a music book that I own. It makes mention of another manuscript volume known as 'The Fisk Jubilee Songs. A collection of 66 JUBILEE and PLANTATION SONGS (Sacred and Secular) as sung by the Fisk Jubilee Singers on their world's tour'.
Does anyone please have any idea what the Jubilee was? Does it somehow relate to an anniversary of US independence? When was the jubilee?
All help appreciated. Regards, John |
Subject: RE: Help: USA Jubilee - Fisk Jubilee Singers From: Stewie Date: 27 Feb 00 - 09:56 PM John This is speculation on my part - I am unable to verify it at the moment- but I reckon the jubilee refers to year of the emancipation of the slaves. Henry Clay Work wrote 'Kingdom Coming' in 1862 and this was popular with white musicians under the title 'Year of Jubilo'. There is another song which may shed more light. The first verse and chorus is as follows: 'Sixty-Three Is the Jubilee' (1863) Words by J. L. Greene Music by D. A. French
Oh darkey's hab ye heard it, hab ye heerd de joyful news?
Chorus:? You'll find midi and lyrics for both songs at the music of the civil war site: http://pdmusic.org/civilwar.html The Fisk University in Nashville (for black students) opened in January 1866. George L. White (a northerner and son of a blacksmith) was musical. At Fisk, he trained a mixed chorus of 11 students which by 1870 was giving concerts in nearby cities. Because the university was in dire need of funds, they took to the road for an extensive concert tour to raise money - New York, Boston etc. The first edition of 'Jubilee Songs As Sung by the Jubilee Singers of Fisk University' was compiled by Theodore F. Seward and published in 1872. It contained 28 spirituals. The second edition, published in the same year, had 64 spirituals and the last edition, in 1892, had 139. By that time, according to the publishers, 130,000 copies had been sold. There was also a collection published in 1874 relating to singers at the other major black university in Hampton, Virginia: 'Cabin and Plantation Songs as Sung by the Hampton Students'. Some time in the late 1870s, the Fisk Singers went to England, where they joined forces with the famous white gospel team of Moody and Sankey, and then to Germany. The Jubilee singers severed their connection with Fisk University in 1878 and were reorganised as a stock company. By the 1880s they had become big business. In the spring of 1886, they sailed from England and concertised throughout Australasia, then to the Far East, India and Japan. Their chronicler wrote that they had 'made the circuit of the globe in six years and two months. The above information about the Fisk Singers comes from Gilbert Chase 'America's Music: From Pilgrims to the Present' Revise Third Edition, Uni of Illinois Press pp225-228. I hope the above is of some use to you. --Stewie. |
Subject: RE: Help: USA Jubilee - Fisk Jubilee Singers From: John in Brisbane Date: 27 Feb 00 - 11:28 PM That's absolutley fantastic Stewie! From this I would conclude that my manuscript was published sometime before 1892 and possibly 10 - 15 years prior to this.
The (partial) contents of the Fisk Song Book were:
Steal away to Jesus Many thanks, John |
Subject: RE: Help: USA Jubilee - Fisk Jubilee Singers From: harpgirl Date: 22 Nov 00 - 01:49 AM reread |
Subject: RE: Help: USA Jubilee - Fisk Jubilee Singers From: masato sakurai Date: 11 Sep 01 - 01:39 AM For the Jubilee Singers, The American Experience - Jubilee Singers: Sacrifice and Glory (PBS program) is a good start. Masato |
Subject: RE: Help: USA Jubilee - Fisk Jubilee Singers From: GUEST,a mad middle school student Date: 23 Feb 10 - 02:00 PM ahhhh wats da answer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Subject: RE: Help: USA Jubilee - Fisk Jubilee Singers From: GUEST,pattyClink Date: 23 Feb 10 - 03:02 PM The Jubilee is a concept from the Bible. citations
Numbers 36:1-9 says that the purpose of Jubilee is to keep the inheritances separate, preventing dispossession. Ezekiel 46:16-18 states that even the prince of Israel is not to dispossess people of their inheritance. Gifts from the prince shall revert back to the family of the prince at the year of liberty. |
Subject: RE: Help: USA Jubilee - Fisk Jubilee Singers From: mg Date: 23 Feb 10 - 03:19 PM in the 50th year you were supposed to free slave and wipe out debts I believe..hence the Year of Jubilee..which of course would be very importance to those in slavery...mg |
Subject: RE: Help: USA Jubilee - Fisk Jubilee Singers From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 23 Feb 10 - 04:40 PM Stewie's explanation is valid for the usage of 'jubilee with regard to the Fisk singers. The first chapter of The Story of the Jubilee Singers with their songs is titled "The Year of Jubilee" and goes on to cover the significance of the war, the 'contrabands', the hunger for education, and the beginnings of schools such as Fisk to give the former slaves a "Christian" education. In digression, it should be noted that the word 'jubilee' has come to have a different meaning today from its use in vernacular speech in 1840s-1860s. The diaries and papers of the time often speak of having a "jubilation" or jubilee when people get together to have a dance or party. One I have been reading lately is the diary of Alfred Doten who sailed around the Horn to California in the Gold Rush in 1849 with a 'company' from his New England town. Several of his friends played instruments, and well-oiled get-togethers were fairly frequent, leaving the participants in the "jubilation" with sore heads the next day. |
Subject: RE: Help: USA Jubilee - Fisk Jubilee Singers From: Reinhard Date: 23 Feb 10 - 04:49 PM Incidentally, few days ago I found the Topic Records LP "Sprirituals" by the Fisk Jubilee Singers (12T39, recorded in 1955, published in 1958) at eBay. The tracklist is I Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray O The Rocks and the Mountains Rockin' Jerusalem When I Was Sinkin' Down You May Bury Me in the East He Arose The Angels Bowed Down Theres a Great Camp Meeting Where You There? Done Made My Vow to the Lord I'm A-Rolling Through an Unfriendly World Lord I'm Out Here on Your Word Seems the LP was licensed from Folkways Recording and is still available from Smithsonian Folkways as CD or digital download. |
Subject: RE: Help: USA Jubilee - Fisk Jubilee Singers From: Jack Campin Date: 23 Feb 10 - 08:38 PM This might help: The Story of the Jubilee Singers (I have a paper copy). |
Subject: RE: Help: USA Jubilee - Fisk Jubilee Singers From: Janie Date: 23 Feb 10 - 10:41 PM Thanks, Q. As ever, you prove to be a fountain of knowledge and a fine researcher. |
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