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	WOMEN'S JAZZ ARCHIVE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Fisk Jubilee Singers were students from Fisk University, Nashville, USA who set out on tour to raise money for their University inaugurated for the education of freed slaves.
		The Jubilee Singers returned again to the Music Hall in 1875, and were described this time as "born as slaves and had all their lives been driven like lepers from any contact with white people, they will give one of their interesting concerts".
		In 1878 Fisk University ceased to use the Jubilee Singers as a means of revenue and disbanded the company on their return to the USA in 1878.
	www.jazzsite.co.uk /wja/fisk.htm (1221 words)

	Fisk Jubilee Singers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Fisk Jubilee Singers were a group of African American singers in the 1870s.
		The singers were a fundraising effort for Fisk University, although one that was not initially approved by the university itself.
		Fisk Jubilee Singers cylinder recordings, from the Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project at the University of California, Santa Barbara Library.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fisk_Jubilee_Singers (174 words)

	Fisk Jubilee Singers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Although all of the events during the weekend are free and open to the public, tickets are required for the Jubilee Singers' Saturday night concert.
		The Jubilee Singers were formed at Fisk University in Nashville, Tenn., in 1871.
		Fisk was one of the first African-American universities, designed solely for the education of former slaves.
	www.news.cornell.edu /Chronicle/03/3.20.03/Fisk_Jubilee_Singers.html (528 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		While this Fisk group was active in the l890s, it continued on throughout the years, of course with some different members each year and a complete turnover of members within each four years.
		In terms of musical history, the primary significance of the Jubilee Singers is that they introduced to the world for the first time a magnificent body of folk music -- slave songs, spirituals -- which celebrated life, survival, victory.
		I also recommend an excellent, though brief, article about the Jubilee Singers, in the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, edited by Charles Reagan Wilson and William Ferris and sponsored by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi.
	www.mtsu.edu /~baustin/jubilee.html (496 words)

	Fisk Jubilee Singers - Biography - AOL Music
		Fisk University in Nashville was in dire straits at the turn of the 1870s.
		In an attempt to raise necessary funds, a group of student singers, under the direction of treasurer and music instructor George L. White, came together to perform during a benefit concert tour of the Midwest.
		In the first seven years that they were together, the Fisk Jubilee Singers raised more than $150,000 for the university.
	music.aol.com /artist/fisk-jubilee-singers/372115/biography?albumid=0 (377 words)

	Fisk Jubilee Singers - Part 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Fisk University was founded in 1865 in Nashville, Tennessee originally as an elementary and normal school for freedmen.
		Fisk University was incorporated in 1867 to train Black teachers.
		The Singers popularized Negro spirituals among both white and Black audiences in the United States and in Europe.
	www.huarchivesnet.howard.edu /9908huarnet/fisk.htm (92 words)

	CETconnect.org \| CET, Cincinnati \| The Fisk Jubilee Singers
		The award-wining Jubilee Singers from Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, continue the tradition of the original chorus that set out in the 1870s to save their school with performances of spirituals and African American slave songs that celebrated life, survival and victory.
		Under direction of Paul T. Kwami, who was himself a Jubilee Singer from 1983 to 1985, the ensemble tours extensively and has won numerous awards, including the Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award from The National Arts Club of New York in 1996.
		The original chorus was the first group to publicly perform the songs of slaves, and subsequent ensembles have continued to touch audiences across the United States and around the world with the power and emotion of early African American anthems, preserving the music for the next generations.
	www.wcet.org /content/fisk.asp (401 words)

	The Fisk Jubilee Singers
		Fisk University, originally the Fisk Free Colored School, was founded in Nashville, TN right after the Civil War, by northern missionaries.
		In 1871, Fisk was on the brink of financial collapse, and George White took a group of young singers on the route of the Underground Railroad, hoping to "sing into the hearts" of the people and raise money to save the school.
		Fisk University was founded in 1866 to provide higher education for freed African-Americans after the Civil War.
	www.singers.com /gospel/fiskjubileesingers.html (1235 words)

	The Oberlin Review \\ News Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Fisk Jubilee Singers were founded in 1871, on the campus of Fisk University.
		In an effort to keep Fisk University active, the original group of nine students saved up the money that was earned from their performances and tours.
		This money was used to purchase Fisk's present home and also to fund the building of the first permanent building in America solely for the education of African Americans.
	www.oberlin.edu /stupub/ocreview/archives/1998.02.06/news/fisk.html (431 words)

	The American Experience \| Jubilee Singers \| Jubilee Songs
		The Fisk University Jubilee Singers was the first group to publicly perform the songs of slaves and they shared them with the world.
		When the Fisk Jubilee Singers first performed in the late 1800s, they sang ballads and patriotic anthems; it was their director, George White, who suggested that they sing the songs of their ancestors.
		With their performances, the Jubilee Singers were able to keep alive these songs of the past and reveal the emotions and strong faith of the African American slave.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/singers/sfeature/songs.html (332 words)

	The Chamber Singers of Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges
		At an April 13, 2002 concert at Fisk University in Nashville, Lloyd presented the Paul Kwami and the Jubilee Singers with a framed reproduction of a 1920 letter from Fisk Dean C. Morrow asking Wood for help in arranging a steam-boat crossing for a Jubilee Singers tour to England.
		Several of the bi-college students were housed in Jubilee Hall, an imposing, historic building constructed in the late 19th century with funds earned by the first touring ensembles of the Fisk Jubilee Singers.
		This historical awareness was most visibly demonstrated in the Jubilee Singers’ part of the April 13 concert shared with the Chamber Singers in Fisk Memorial Chapel.
	www.haverford.edu /musc/choral/csingers/fiskuniv.htm (1310 words)

	CETconnect.org \| CET, Cincinnati \| CET Press Room Article Display
		The Jubilee Singers, an historic a cappella choir from Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, performed on Friday, January 14, 2005, at CET, under the direction of Paul T. Kwami.
		With a trip to tour Fisk and attend an academic breakfast there just a few days away, she welcomed the opportunity to meet the Singers and get first-hand information about the school and the ensemble.
		If she decides to accept, she plans to audition for the Jubilee Singers, listing the group as one of the important factors that attracted her to Fisk.
	www.cetconnect.org /pressroom/articledisplay.asp?ID=15 (814 words)

	Fisk Jubliee Singers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The singers ranged in age from fifteen to twenty-five years and all were former slaves or children of slaves.
		The group also adopted the name of Jubilee Singers, from the biblical reference to the time of jubilee and the freeing of all slaves.
		Each October 6, Fisk celebrates Jubilee Day, commemorating the original Jubilee Singers, who sang before kings, queens, and heads of state; who captured the hearts of all who heard their music; who introduced to the world the beauty and tradition of the Negro spiritual; and who, with steadfastness and commitment, virtually saved their university.
	www.tnstate.edu /library/digital/FISK.HTM (330 words)

	Fisk University's Jubilee Singers Inducted into Gospel Hall of Fame - Brief Article Black Issues in Higher Education - ...
		The Jubilee Singers of Fisk University, an institution more than a century old, was inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame last month.
		Founder George L. White, Fisk University's treasurer and music instructor, named the group of nine young Black men and women after the Jewish "year of jubilee," which marked the deliverance of the Jews from slavery.
		It was an appropriate name for the singers as seven of the nine had been slaves.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0DXK/is_20_17/ai_68206753 (438 words)

	Fisk.edu: Welcome to Our Online Community!
		Funds raised by the Jubilee Singers during their international concerts were used to construct the school's first permanent building, Jubilee Hall.
		Jubilee Hall, one of the oldest structures in use at Fisk University, is designated as a National Historic Landmark by the U.S. Department of the Interior.
		The Jubilee Singers are the focus of a recent PBS presentation of The American Experience titled "Jubilee Singers: Sacrifice and Glory."
	www.fisk.edu /index.asp?cat=16 (199 words)

	Columbia State Community College: What's New - Fisk Jubilee Singers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The world-renowned Fisk Jubilee Singers will perform in Columbia State’s Cherry Theater as part of the 2002-2003 Performance Series on Saturday, February 8 at 7:30 p.m.
		The group was dubbed the “Jubilee Singers” and is an enduring tradition at the University.
		Today, under the direction of Paul T. Kwami, the Fisk Jubilee Singers tour extensively throughout the world ministering through song to diverse audiences of all ages.
	www.coscc.cc.tn.us /whatsnew/fisk.html (312 words)

	Learning from a Legacy of Hate
		The Fisk University Jubilee Singers were formed at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee in the late 1800’s.
		Although the singers were wearing rags on their backs, the crowds they performed before were welcoming.
		The music of the Fisk University Jubilee singers encompasses you; you feel their song and their spirituality, which is all the slaves had to make it through.
	www.bsu.edu /learningfromhate/mu_fisk.htm (346 words)

	Vignette: The Fisk Jubilee Singers
		In 1866 the Fisk Free Colored School was established in Nashville, Tennessee by the American Missionary Association.
		The Jubilees announced to the world that freed slaves were not just blank slates upon which whites could write whatever they liked.
		They declared to the world that there was an African American culture and identity; that fl people were not only educable, but had something rich and vital to contribute that rose from the depths of their despair and rang out from the heights of their hope and faith.
	faculty.washington.edu /qtaylor/aa_Vignettes/org_fisk_jubilee.htm (399 words)

	Fisk Jubilee Singers Perform with Neil Young at Live 8 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Fisk University’s Jubilee Singers performed with Rock and Roll Hall of Fame artist Neil Young on Saturday, July 2 in Barrie, Ontario to close out the highly-anticipated Live 8 Canada concert.
		The Singers are often credited with contributing greatly to the development of gospel music.
		Paul Kwami, Curb-Beaman Chair and Director of the Jubilee Singers, said he was excited and honored that Fisk has been asked to participate.
	www.fisk.edu /fisk_headlines/june/live_8.htm (397 words)

	Ø Wilson's Almanac free daily ezine \| Orpheus Myron McAdoo and the 'Wimoweh' story \| Fisk Jubilee Georgia ...
		Fisk Jubilee Singers (pictured above), who first arrived in Australia at Melbourne on May 14, 1886.
		O.M. McAdoo was to see the potential of future ventures and toured Australasia and Africa with his own jubilee and minstrel company over the proceeding years until his untimely death in Sydney on the 17th July,1900.
		"F.J.Loudin's Fisk Jubilee Singers original tour spurned many derivative organisations besides the McAdoo troupe of jubilee singers with Huntley Spencer (former member of the Era Comedy Four with Hugo's American Minstrels) being associated with a troupe of Fisk jubilee singers as late as 1936 in New Zealand.
	www.wilsonsalmanac.com /orpheus_myron_mcadoo.html (2285 words)

	Today in History: January 9
		Fisk University, incorporated on August 22, 1867, is one of several historically fl colleges founded with help from the American Missionary Association.
		Jubilee Hall, the first permanent structure built in the South for the education of African Americans, was constructed with proceeds from the Singers' tours.
		By 1873 the group, most of whom had been born into slavery, were presenting their artistry and a new body of music to the general public at venues such as Steinway Hall in Manhatten, to President Grant at the White house, and to Queen Victoria in England.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/today/jan09.html (1051 words)

	A long time for a short trip - Saturday, 01/29/05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		To join the Fisk Jubilee Singers, with whom her mother herself had sung a generation earlier, in the early 1970s.
		The Jubilee Singers were invited to perform at the White House by none other than President Ulysses S. Grant.
		Jubilee Hall was built and counts among the first permanent buildings in America for the education of fls.
	www.tennessean.com /entertainment/music/archives/05/01/64759597.shtml (1213 words)

	Haverford College News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Fisk University Jubilee Singers are the first internationally acclaimed group of African-American musicians who attained recognition, then fame, and along the way financed their school.
		Funds raised during these international concerts were used to construct the school's first permanent building, Jubilee Hall, which is one of the oldest structures in use at Fisk University and designated as a National Historic Landmark by the U.S. Department of the Interior.
		Paul T. Kwami, the director, was a Fisk Jubilee Singer from 1983 to 1985.
	www.haverford.edu /publicrelations/news/fist (424 words)

	GospelFlava.com - Reviews - Fisk Jubilee Singers (In Bright Mansions)
		Birthed from the very beginnings of American Gospel music, The Fisk Jubilee Singers are pioneers in bringing Gospel music to the masses.
		Now in the new millenium, The Fisk Jubilee Singers, under the direction of Paul T. Kwami, have released an incredibly rich, multi-media package titled In Bright Mansions, on Curb Records.
		The story of The Fisk Jubilee Singers is told briefly in the In Bright Mansions album liner notes by noted author Andrew Ward.
	www.gospelflava.com /reviews/fiskjubileesingers.html (535 words)

	African American Registry: The Fisk Jubilee Singers formed. . .
		The founding of the Fisk* Jubilee Singers in 1866 is celebrated on this date.
		These singers were emancipated slaves who toured to raise money for Fisk University.
		In 1871, the Jubilee Singers began a successful singing tour to save Fisk School from imminent closing for financial reasons.
	www.aaregistry.com /african_american_history/1920/The_Fisk_Jubilee_Singers_formed (155 words)

	Amazon.com: Dark Midnight When I Rise: The Story of the Fisk Jubilee Singers: Books: Andrew Ward (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		This is a detailed fascinating look at the foundation of Fisk University and how its Jubilee Singers raised money for their college at a cost of superhuman personal dedication and hardship.
		When Fisk faced financial ruin, with teachers and students falling ill from poor food and bitter cold in buildings virtually rotting away, the choir and their director went on the road (another resonant American theme) to raise what today would be millions of dollars.
		Bass singer Greene Evans had built a schoolhouse for fl children from discarded lumber, wryly noting that the building "'did not lack for ventilation, for a bird could fly through anywhere.'" Like Evans, Porter had taught in a country school, until it was burned down by the KKK.
	www.amazon.com /Dark-Midnight-When-Rise-Jubilee/dp/0060934824 (2950 words)

	Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative Series: Upcoming Events (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Commemorative Series, was honored to host the internationally-renowned Fisk Jubilee Singers on Tuesday, Jan. 22.
		The Jubilee Singers performed as the inaugural event for the opening of the new Ingram Hall.
		History and background of the Fisk Jubilee Singers.
	www.vanderbilt.edu /htdocs/mlk/jubilee.html (104 words)

	New Community Corporation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Fisk Jubilee Singers was established as a troupe of young ex-slaves and freedmen who set out initially to raise money for their school, a former abandoned Union Army Hospital Barrack.
		The Fisk Jubilee Singers are credited with raising enough money to build what we now know to be Fisk University, as well as changing the face of American music.
		The "slave songs" popularized by the Fisk Jubilee Singers are a piece of history that is an oral interpretation of the African-American experience.
	www.newcommunity.org /whatsnew_newsreleases1a.htm (746 words)

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