Jubilee Singers and Barbershop Quartets Continued the Evolution of African-American Music: Let It Roll From the Beginning...2.4

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The moment when African-American music strove for maximum respectability and approval from White folk —- and they got it too. Nashville’s Fisk Jubilee Singers were a sensation in Europe and were summo

We’re relaunching Let It Roll by reposting every episode in chronological order by subject matter.

In this episode, host Nate Wilcox is joined by Garrett Cash to continue their discussion of the evolution of American Gospel music with a look at Afro-American music in the late 19th Century.

Source materials include ⁠⁠Robert Darden’s “People Get Ready!: A N…

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