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Spirituals and the birth of a black entertainment industry
- Title
- Spirituals and the birth of a black entertainment industry / Sandra Jean Graham.
- Author
- Graham, Sandra J. (Sandra Jean)
- Publication
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2018]
- ©2018
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Details
- Description
- xvi, 330 pages : illustrations, music; 24 cm.
- Summary
- In the first book-length treatment of postbellum spirituals in theatrical entertainments, Sandra Jean Graham mines a trove of resources to chart the spiritual's journey from the private lives of slaves to the concert stage. Graham navigates the conflicting agendas of those who, in adapting spirituals for their own ends, sold conceptions of racial identity to their patrons. In so doing they laid the foundation for a black entertainment industry whose artistic, financial, and cultural practices extended into the twentieth century.
- Series Statement
- Music in American life
- Uniform Title
- Music in American life.
- Subjects
- Minstrel shows
- Spirituals (Songs)
- Black author
- Minstrel shows > United States > History > 19th century
- Jubilee Singers (Fisk University)
- 1800-1899
- Spirituals (Songs) > United States > History and criticism
- African Americans > Music > History and criticism
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Spirituals (Songs) > United States > 19th century > History and criticism
- Genre/Form
- Minstrel shows.
- Spirituals (Songs)
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-312) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction. -- The folk spiritual. -- Part I. The rise of a jubilee industry -- The Jubilee Singers of Fisk University -- The Fisk concert spiritual -- Innovators, imitators, and a jubilee industry --
- Part II. Spirituals for the masses. -- The minstrel show gets religion -- Commercial spirituals -- Spirituals in Uncle Tom shows, melodramas, and spectacles -- Blurring boundaries between traditional and commercial -- Conclusion: lessons and legacies.
- Call Number
- Sc E 18-594
- ISBN
- 9780252041631
- 0252041631
- 9780252083273
- 025208327X
- LCCN
- 2017057358
- OCLC
- 1004765337
- Author
- Graham, Sandra J. (Sandra Jean), author.
- Title
- Spirituals and the birth of a black entertainment industry / Sandra Jean Graham.
- Publisher
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2018]
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Music in American lifeMusic in American life.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-312) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1800-1899
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 18-594