Spirituals (Songs)

 Subject

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Burge Plantation Spirituals Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS.1212
Abstract

The Burge Plantation Spirituals Collection, 1920-1929, consists of approximately 600 spirituals sung by the descendants of enslaved workers on Burge Plantation, recorded by Dorothy Gray Bolton, 1880-1964, descendant of Burge Plantation owners, and annotated by composer Harry T. Burleigh, 1866-1949, and photographs of the African American men and women who lived and worked at Burge in the early twentieth century.

Dates: 1920 - 1929
Found in: Vanderbilt University Special Collections and University Archives

George Pullen Jackson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS.0225
Abstract George Pullen Jackson was a professor of German at Vanderbilt University. Much of the collection reflects Jackson’s deep interest in American folk music, particularly southern spirituals – a subject he extensively researched and lectured upon. Included in the collection are correspondence perttaining to song collectiion and arrangement for performances, research materials and printed songs, note cards with tune indices, a bibliography of hymn and tune books, a directory of Sacred harp...
Dates: 1930 - 1951
Found in: Vanderbilt University Special Collections and University Archives

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