Notice bibliographique
- Notice
Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Graham, Sandra Jean
Titre(s) : Spirituals and the birth of a black entertainment industry [Texte imprimé] / Sandra Jean Graham
Publication : Urbana : University of Illinois Press, copyright 2018
Description matérielle : xvi, 330 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm
Collection : Music in American life
Lien à la collection : Music in American life
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-312) and index
Spirituals performed by jubilee troupes became a sensation in post-Civil War America.
First brought to the stage by choral ensembles like the Fisk Jubilee Singers, spirituals
anchored a wide range of late nineteenth-century entertainments, including minstrelsy,
variety, and plays by both black and white companies. 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 [Publisher description]
Sujet(s) : Negro spirituals -- 19e siècle
Minstrel shows -- 19e siècle
Musique noire américaine -- 19e siècle
Noirs américains dans les arts du spectacle -- 19e siècle
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780252041631. - ISBN 0252041631. - ISBN 9780252083273. - ISBN 025208327X. -
ISBN 9780252050305 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45534219k
Notice n° :
FRBNF45534219
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : 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.
