The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #117751   Message #2539325
Posted By: Azizi
13-Jan-09 - 11:24 PM
Thread Name: Minstrel Show Or Not?
Subject: RE: Minstrel Show Or Not?
For some reason, when I watch the Howard video, other videos of African American spiritual follow. I don't know how that happened.

One video is a choir made up of White singers:

Auburn University Concert Choir - Didn't My Lord Deliver Dan

Unlike the Nashville video, it didn't seem to me that the Auburn University choir was trying to sing this song isn "a Black voice".
I didn't like their arrangement, but that's just me. It's a matter of taste, which to a large extent is developed and reinforced by cultural conditioning.

Another video that somehow followed the Auburn University video through that Howard University link, is Wilmington Chester Mass Choir- Ride On King Jesus

I like this video the best of all those whose links I shared in these posts {though the sound clip used by the Alvin Ailey dancers is a tie}. Imo, the Wilmington Chester Mass Choir is a good example of African American singing spirituals {although I personally didn't like the video after 4:44.

As to any other videos that follow this one, {how??} I'll just let them speak for themselves.