Fisk Jubilee Singers

vocals (choir and vocal quartet) · Nashville

Ensemble founded in 1871 in Nashville by George Leonard White to fund Fisk University through its tours. Its quartet, directed in part by John Wesley Work II, recorded for Victor in 1909 the ensemble's first spirituals, including Swing Low, Sweet Chariot.

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Styles

• Afro-diasporic roots

Landmark tracks

• Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (1909)

Sources

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