{"product_id":"stand-the-storm-spiritual-quartet-singing-in-the-struggle-for-black-education-9781496855718","title":"Stand the Storm: Spiritual Quartet Singing in the Struggle for Black Education","description":"Black education in the South was the great social program of the post-Civil War era. Desperately strapped for operating capital, the first freedmen's schools resorted to a bold fundraising experiment. Student troupes were sent to the North singing Negro spirituals, the sacred songs of slavery, in order to generate goodwill and entice financial support. The Fisk University Jubilee Singers set this strategy in motion in 1871; in the wake of their success, it was adopted by HBCUs throughout the Southland. Intrepid student singers introduced the outside world to the Negro spirituals, the \"genuine jewels\" they brought from their bondage, and \"sang up\" school buildings in the process. Negro spiritual singing was a revelation for the northern public; it was their initial exposure to an emergent, distinctly American kind of creative energy. Male quartets became the standard-bearers of this venerable Black music tradition. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eStand the Storm: Spiritual Quartet Singing in the Struggle for Black Education\u003c\/i\u003e, award-winning authors Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff dive into the history of three generations of fundraising quartets from seven representative schools: Fisk, Hampton, Tuskegee, Penn, Calhoun, Utica, and Piney Woods. They acknowledge the heroic founders of the schools and restore the names of forgotten singers to the historical record. They reevaluate the industrial education model that guided these schools. Finally, they plot the evolution of Negro spiritual singing after Emancipation by scrutinizing early published song collections and comparing them with songbooks and recordings from subsequent eras.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLynn Abbott\u003c\/b\u003e is an independent scholar living in New Orleans. His work has been published in \u003ci\u003eAmerican Music\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e78 Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Music Research Center Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Jazz Archivist\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cb\u003eDoug Seroff\u003c\/b\u003e is an independent scholar living in Greenbrier, Tennessee.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eHis work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eAmerican Music\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePopular Music and Society\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBlues Unlimited\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eRag Time Ephemeralist\u003c\/i\u003e, among others. Abbott and Seroff are coauthors of \u003ci\u003eOut of Sight: The Rise of African American Popular Music, 1889-1895\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eRagged but Right: Black Traveling Shows, \"Coon Songs,\" and the Dark Pathway to Blues and Jazz\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Original Blues: The Emergence of the Blues in African American Vaudeville\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eTo Do This, You Must Know How: Music Pedagogy in the Black Gospel Quartet Tradition\u003c\/i\u003e, all published by University Press of Mississippi.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51475330892050,"sku":"9781496855718","price":93.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e3a22177-1f13-40a5-8576-18c52e7050be.jpg?v=1752592642","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/stand-the-storm-spiritual-quartet-singing-in-the-struggle-for-black-education-9781496855718","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}