The Fisk Jubilee Singers were a group of African American singers in the 1870s. Their repertoire centered on spirituals, but also included some Stephen Foster songs. The word jubilee was originally intended to set them apart from blackfaceminstrels, but was soon adopted in the names of several minstrel troupes. [1] African Americans, also known as Afro-Americans or black Americans, are an ethnic group in the United States of America whose ancestors, usually in predominant part, were indigenous to Sub-Saharan and West Africa. ... Events and Trends Technology The invention of the telephone (1876) by Alexander Graham Bell. ... A spiritual is an African American song, usually with a Christian religious text. ... Stephen Collins Foster (Born in Pittsburgh on July 4, 1826, died on January 13, 1864) was the pre-eminent songwriter in the United States of his era. ... This reproduction of a 1900 minstrel show poster, originally published by the Strobridge Litho Co. ... The minstrel show, or minstrelsy, is an indigenous form of American entertainment consisting of comic skits, variety acts, dancing, and music, usually performed by white people in blackface. ...
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^ Lott, Eric. Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. ISBN 0195078322. p. 236
The singers were a fundraising effort for Fisk University, although one that was not initially approved by the university itself.
FiskJubileeSingers cylinder recordings, from the Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project at the University of California, Santa Barbara Library.
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