TY  - BOOK
AU  - Graham,Sandra J.
TI  - Spirituals and the birth of a black entertainment industry /Sandra Jean Graham
T2  - Music in American life
AV  - ML3556 .S657 2018
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Urbana
PB  - University of Illinois Press
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Music
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Jubilee singers
KW  - Spirituals (Songs)
KW  - United States
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Minstrel shows
KW  - History
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Folk Spiritual; Part One: The Rise of a Jubilee Industry; 2. The Jubilee Singers of Fisk University; 3. The Fisk Concert Spiritual; 4. Innovators, Imitators, and a Jubilee Industry; Part Two: Spirituals for the Masses; 5. The Minstrel Show Gets Religion; 6. Commercial Spirituals; 7. Spirituals in Uncle Tom Shows, Melodramas, and Spectacles; 8. Blurring Boundaries between Traditional and Commercial; Conclusion: Lessons and Legacies; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author; 2; b
N2  - 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
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