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...Christopher Lornell Thermon Ruth and the Selah Jubilee Singers An Interview Christopher Lomell Introduction The spirited singing heard during Holiness-Pentecostal worship is one of the most distinctive features of black sacred music to develop over the past century. This spiritual music was also...

..., and have perhaps given color to the statement, sometimes made, that all the music sung by Negroes is the product of Northern white men,2 taught to the colored people by missionary teachers who went South during or after the war.3 With the advent of the Jubilee Singers who set out from Fisk University...

...!' When Wood's message is unraveled from the poem, it is disappointing in every way to those who have any true conception of the religious makeup of the Negro. In his spirituals and jubilees the Negro always conceives of God speaking as He spoke to Moses and to Paul and to Elijah. No record is found where...

... noticed that the Negroes who live in rural areas generally do not sing the songs that are often looked upon by urban people as being the very essence of Negro folk song. These rural Negroes seem to have forgotten the songs that are commonly looked upon as spirituals or jubilees. To go further, it is safe...

... already possesses one of the largest collections of unpublished and generally unknown spirituals. Probably no other person has as large a number of work songs and jubilees and of Christmas spirituals and jubilees."25 Although James lamented that popular preference for the spiritual had resulted...

..." type of Negro sings a spiritual or jubilee that the shout remains the ever-present accompaniment. There has always been a type of Negro who was not given to the shout. "Shout," as used here, is not to be confused with the shout indulged in by an individual who is aroused to vocal and physical...

... but another edition of what already existed. But with the coming of the Fisk Jubilee Singers, there was poured into the astonished and delighted ears of the world an indigenous music, sung by its own creators, a music as fresh as the morning, as intimate as the breath, and as vital as the heartbeat. Moreover...

..., 207 Fair, Andrew, 257 fiddle, 49, 50 First Baptist Choir, 212 Fisher, Rosa J., 272-73 Index 343 Fisher, Theodora Joanna. See James, Theodora Fisher Fisher, William Arms, 239 Fisk University, 199, 219, 225, 235, 242; Fisk (Jubilee) Singers, 222-23, 235, 238 Florida Baptist Academy, x, 91, 219, 265...

... be willing to let down a ladder upon which the Negro might begin his climb upward. Consequently, the religious songs received all of the attention from these early benefactors. To say that these fine people were correct in establishing the spirituals and jubilees as the forefront of the Negro's musical...

... on the thought of America regarding Negro music development: (r.) The world tour, about the year 1880, of the famous Fisk Jubilee Singers. (2.) The compositions of Stephen Foster, and the organization for which many of his songs were written. (3.) The symphony, From the New World, by Antonin Dvovak. When...

... by the Negro to give meaning to his deepest and most sublime feelings toward God and His great universe. For this reason the spirituals are, as a rule, sung in a slower and broader line than are the jubilees, which are songs of great exultation and joy-joy that is the result of a belief in the power of God...

..., arr. As By the Streams of Babylon. Anthem. BJ, fl - - . The Chariot Jubilee. Oratorio. SATB and Organ. Photocopy. BJ, fl - - - , arr. The Dett Collection ofNegro Spirituals, Third and Fourth Groups. Minneapolis: Schmitt, Hall & McCreary Company, 1936. B3, fl - - - , arr. L' Envoi. Spiritual. SATB. B3...

... this jubilee at the top of his voice, we learned it by absorption. The presence of these last-mentioned songs in St. Helena Island Spirituals is evidence of the action of outside musical influences of no uncertain nature. However, I wish to emphasize the fact that most of the songs contained in this book...

... borrowed his songs from the white man. In speaking to this subject, let me say that if Africa was incapable of creating the spiritual and the jubilee, so was America until the Negro came upon the scene. Two seemingly divergent continents found a medium in the black man, in whom they became an articulate...

... was connected for twenty-five years) or at concerts given by the Jubilee Singers, could not fail to be impressed with the fact that here was a man who loved the songs of his people with no uncommon devotion. The same regard for the "spiritual" is revealed in his book-Folk Songs of the American Negro- and in his...

... was the Wild Billow," 72 Fisk Jubilee Singers, 24, 25, 26, 271 54, 117, 120, 125 Fisk University, 23, 24, 28, 54 Folk Songs of the American Negro, 23, 40, 54 Fontainbleau School, 1, 88 Foster, Stephen, 24, 29, 42, 58, 120, 121, 125 Franck, Johann Wolfgang, 76 "Gently, Lord, 0 Gently Lead Us," 75 Gershwin...

... occasions in the United States and Europe to the applause and critical acclaim of thousands. It was in 1871 when the Fisk Jubilee Singers embarked on a project 210 Black Sacred Music that has since become part of history. Badly in need of funds to finance the education of former slaves in Fisk University...

.... This, in music, has not been easy to evade. At the outset, it was expected that the Negro artist be a clown, and that he thus help to relieve the boredom of his audiences. Then the Fisk Jubilee Singers made it known that Spirituals were a dignified addition to the concert stage. Hencefor­ ward, all colored...

... deserts of Africa, from the reed huts of the Nile. When F. J. Loudin of the Fisk Jubilee Singers told me how the people flocked to hear his troupe sing their simple old plantation songs I wondered. When I heard a college glee club or a white male quartet sing these same songs, with strict attention...

..., The Jackson Bible Universal Selected Gospel Songs, privately published in New Albany, Mississippi circa 1945. Among the photographic holdings are (I) early pictures of the Selah Jubilee Singers and it organizer, Thermon Ruth, all of whom came out of a Pentecostal church, (2) Evangelist H. C. Jackson, (3...