Innovators, Imitators, and a Jubilee Industry

• Published in: Spirituals and the Birth of a Black Entertainment Industry p. 82
• Main Author: Graham, Sandra Jean
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: University of Illinois Press 26.02.2018
• Subjects: A Great Camp Meeting in the Promised Land; American Missionary Association; American Music; Anna Madah Hyers; Anthropology; Applied anthropology; Art music; Art songs; Artists; Arts; Behavioral sciences; cabin and plantation songs; Cabin and Plantation Songs as Sung by the Hampton Students; camp meeting and jubilee song; Chautauqua and jubilee singers; Choirs; Cultural anthropology; dialect in spirituals; Economic disciplines; Economics; Emma Louise Hyers; Employment; Folk culture; Folk music; folk traits and Hampton Institute Singers; Folkloristics; Folksongs; Hampton Institute educational philosophy; Hampton Institute Singers; High culture; Hyer sisters; Jackson Jubilee Singers; James M. Waddy; James Monroe Waddy; John Wesley Donavin; Joseph Towe; Labor economics; Leroy (L. N. D.) Pickett (Tennesseans); lyceum movement and jubilee song; Music; Music ensembles; Music genres; Music theory; Musical performance; Musical pitch; Musical register; Musicians; Negro spirituals; New Orleans Jubilee Singers; Occupations; Old Original North Carolinians; Patrick Gilmore’s World’s Peace Jubilee; Performing arts; Popular music; Popular songs; Religious songs; ring shout; Rise; Robert Hamilton; Sallie Davis; Samuel Chapman Armstrong and Hampton Institute; Shaw Jubilee Singers; Sheppard’s Colored Jubilee Singers; Shine!; Singers; Singing; slave cabin concerts; slave music; Some o’ dese Mornin’s; Spirituals; the Reverend Joseph Pollard; the Tennesseans (singers of slave songs); Thomas P. Fenner; Vocal ensembles; Vocal music; “Battle Hymn of the Republic” by Jubilee Singers and Hyers sisters
• ISBN: 9780252041631; 0252041631
• DOI: 10.5622/illinois/9780252041631.003.0004

The Jubilee Singers’ 1872 spring tour culminated in several appearances at Patrick Gilmore’s World’s Peace Jubilee in Boston, which celebrated the end of the Franco-Prussian War with twenty thousand choristers, some two thousand instrumentalists, and three weeks of mammoth concerts dominated by European classical music (17 June–4 July). Although the Fisk Jubilee Singers sang spirituals in three of the main concerts, their most conspicuous performance was “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” on Saturday, 22 June. Joining them were the Hyers sisters, a chorus of some one hundred fifty African Americans, and the distinguished festival orchestra. After a long