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Article: The Jubilee Singers and Their Songs.(Book Review)
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- March 22, 2004
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By J.B. 72 Marsh Dover Publications (Mineola, NY), 2003, ISBN 0486431326, 320 pages, pbk., $12.95
Originally published in 1876 as The Story of the Jubilee Singers: With Their Songs, the value of this book lies partially in the fact that just holding it is akin to having discovered delicious primary source material. It's like delving into the many unpublished photographs, documents and memorabilia no doubt housed at Tennessee's Fisk University and in private collections.
The entire second half of this book is devoted to faithful reproductions of classic spiritual arrangements used by the first Jubilee Singers and sung virtually unchanged today by the ...