Jubilee Quartet and African-American Spirituals

A fascinating story explores how the Jubilee Quartet at Fisk University attempted to preserve slave-era spirituals in the early twentieth century.

Read the story and hear the recordings from the 1900s and 1910s at NPR.

 

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