Research Catalog

Title

Jubilee Singers [videorecording] : sacrifice and glory / a production of WGBH Boston ; produced with the assistance of Nashville Public Television ; WGBH Educational Foundation.

Publication

[Alexandria, Va.] : PBS Home Video, c2000.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Smith, Llewellyn.
• Ward, Andrew, 1946-
• McCullough, David G.
• Graham, Dion.
• WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.)
• Nashville Public Television.
• WGBH Educational Foundation.
• PBS Home Video.

Description

1 videocassette (56 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences; 1/2 in.

Summary

Portrays the history of the Jubilee Singers, who started as an ex-slave choir singing spirituals on fundraising tours to keep Fisk University from folding. Includes recreations of their historic performances and draws on letters, photographs, and diaries to portray their early years.

Uniform Title

American experience (Television program)

Subjects

• Fisk University History
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Spirituals (Songs) > United States > History and criticism
• African Americans > Music > History and criticism
• Choirs (Music) > United States > History
• Jubilee Singers History

Note

• Originally broadcast as a segment of the television series: The American experience.

Credits (note)

• Produced and directed by Llewellyn Smith ; written by Llewellyn Smith & Andrew Ward ; editor, Jean Boucicaut ; narrated by Dion Graham.

System Details (note)

• VHS.

Language (note)

• Closed-captioned.

ISBN

0780631439 :

LCCN

794054825831

OCLC

ocm44138556

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library