In the essay, he provided a capsule history of “the pilgrimage of the Fisk Jubilee Singers.” It began shortly after the train-stop incident. The year 1871 was a crucible.

Dr. Paul T. Kwami, revered music director of the world-renowned, Grammy-winning Fisk Jubilee Singers for 28 years, died in a Nashville hospital early Saturday morning, his family announced in a ...

A decision by Fisk University in 1871 helped shape American popular music, according to Vann Newkirk of The Atlantic. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with him about his article on the Fisk Jubilee Singers.

Paul T. Kwami, the longtime director of the Fisk Jubilee Singers, who cemented the ensemble’s reputation as one of the country’s premier interpreters of African American spiritual music, died ...

Fisk Jubilee Singers from Fisk University, an HBCU in Tennessee, return to Charlotte’s Knight Theater. ... In 1871, Nashville’s newly established Fisk University was in financial peril.

Founded in 1871 to raise money for their struggling college, the Fisk Jubilee Singers soon became a musical sensation. The current ensemble, here performing at a church in Nashville last June ...

Today Jubilee Hall, designated a National Historic Landmark by the US Department of Interior in 1975, is one of the oldest structures on campus. The beautiful Victorian Gothic building houses a ...

The history of folk music can be fuzzy, but for the black spiritual, 1871 is the date that sealed its survival. That year, Nashville's fledgling Fisk University, founded to educate newly freed ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Nashville wouldn’t have the nickname Music City without the Fisk Jubilee Singers. The spiritual singers, formed in 1871, are credited with saving Fisk University from ...

By 1871, with Fisk in debt and in danger of closing, the Jubilee Singers set out to tour the U.S., collecting donations to send back. At the time, among Black performers’ few options for ...

Fisk Jubilee Singers with Mabel Lewis (second left), Ella Sheppard (centre) and America Robinson (right). Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty .