What’s the Score? Interpreting Transcriptions of the Fisk Jubilee Spirituals

I consider Theodore Seward’s transcriptions of the Fisk Jubilee Singers’ spirituals as a representation of his training (and the assumptions about music inherent in that training), and as a strategy for creating an ideology about the spirituals, demonstrating ways in which these scores might be repo...

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Main Author: Sandra Graham
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: University of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani) 2006-12-01
Series:Muzikološki Zbornik
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Online Access:https://journals.uni-lj.si/MuzikoloskiZbornik/article/view/5609
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description I consider Theodore Seward’s transcriptions of the Fisk Jubilee Singers’ spirituals as a representation of his training (and the assumptions about music inherent in that training), and as a strategy for creating an ideology about the spirituals, demonstrating ways in which these scores might be repositories of useful ethnographic knowledge.
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spelling doaj.art-a232a8260ca149cfa675efdfe41b90922023-01-18T12:57:01ZdeuUniversity of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani)Muzikološki Zbornik0580-373X2350-42422006-12-0142111512510.4312/mz.42.1.115-1254894What’s the Score? Interpreting Transcriptions of the Fisk Jubilee SpiritualsSandra GrahamI consider Theodore Seward’s transcriptions of the Fisk Jubilee Singers’ spirituals as a representation of his training (and the assumptions about music inherent in that training), and as a strategy for creating an ideology about the spirituals, demonstrating ways in which these scores might be repositories of useful ethnographic knowledge.https://journals.uni-lj.si/MuzikoloskiZbornik/article/view/5609transcriptionhistorical ethnomusicologynegro spiritualsfisk jubilee singers
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What’s the Score? Interpreting Transcriptions of the Fisk Jubilee Spirituals
Muzikološki Zbornik
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historical ethnomusicology
negro spirituals
fisk jubilee singers
title What’s the Score? Interpreting Transcriptions of the Fisk Jubilee Spirituals
title_full What’s the Score? Interpreting Transcriptions of the Fisk Jubilee Spirituals
title_fullStr What’s the Score? Interpreting Transcriptions of the Fisk Jubilee Spirituals
title_full_unstemmed What’s the Score? Interpreting Transcriptions of the Fisk Jubilee Spirituals
title_short What’s the Score? Interpreting Transcriptions of the Fisk Jubilee Spirituals
title_sort what s the score interpreting transcriptions of the fisk jubilee spirituals
topic transcription
historical ethnomusicology
negro spirituals
fisk jubilee singers
url https://journals.uni-lj.si/MuzikoloskiZbornik/article/view/5609
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