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Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: University of Illinois Press
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Pages: 337
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-02-26 - Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Spirituals performed by jubilee troupes became a sensation in post-Civil War America. First brought to the stage by choral ensembles like the Fisk Jubilee Singe
Language: en
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Pages: 290
Type: BOOK - Published: 1991-03 - Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Hilda Satt Polacheck's family emigrated from Poland to Chicago in 1892, bringing their old-world Jewish traditions with them into the Industrial Age. Throughout
Language: en
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Pages: 274
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Language: en
Pages: 210
Pages: 210
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-02-04 - Publisher: Springer
In this insightful and provocative volume, Rameyreveals spirituals and slave songs to be a crucial element in American literature. This book shows slave songs'i
