Down on the Old Camp Ground
Context
One of the six sides recorded for Victor on October 29 and 31, 1902 by the Dinwiddie Colored Quartet, considered the first Black vocal quartet recorded on disc. Founded in 1898 as a jubilee quartet to benefit a school in Dinwiddie (Virginia), the group later toured in vaudeville. The six sides have survived and are regarded as major documents of jubilee music.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Afro-diasporic roots.