{"id":74,"date":"2012-06-14T16:12:24","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T16:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/?p=74"},"modified":"2024-11-05T12:09:26","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T12:09:26","slug":"jubilee-celebrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/history\/2012\/06\/14\/jubilee-celebrations\/","title":{"rendered":"Jubilee Celebrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/159\/sites\/446\/2018\/05\/jubilee-singers.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-75\" title=\"Jubilee Singers\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/159\/sites\/446\/2018\/05\/jubilee-singers.gif?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"162\" \/><\/a>The celebrations for the Queen\u2019s Jubilee may not seem to have much relevance to an American historian, but actually the very word \u201cjubilee\u201d strikes a chord particularly for those who study African American History.\u00a0 The Civil War song, \u201cMarching Through Georgia\u201d celebrating General Sherman\u2019s march from Atlanta to Savannah in 1864, has in its chorus the lines:<\/p>\n<p>Hurrah! Hurrah! We bring the jubilee!<\/p>\n<p>Hurrah! Hurrah! The flag that makes you free!<\/p>\n<p>For black slaves jubilee also had a biblical reference \u2013 Leviticus refers to the periodic \u201cyear of Jubilee\u201d celebrated by freeing those in bondage as an act of atonement.\u00a0 Thus it is no surprise to discover a black choir called the Fisk Jubilee Singers formed in 1871 at the university in Tennessee of the same name who made famous black spirituals such as \u201cSwing Low Sweet Chariot\u201d. The Fisk singers toured Britain and the rest of Europe on several occasions and performed before Queen Victoria in April 1873.\u00a0 The Fisk Jubilee Singers helped to spread the influence of black folk song across the Atlantic, a flow of inspiration celebrated in the forthcoming collection <em>Transatlantic Roots Music: Folk, Blues, and National Identities<\/em> edited by Jill Terry (Worcester) and Gloucestershire\u2019s own Neil Wynn.\u00a0 So the Jubilee will be celebrated in more ways than one!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The celebrations for the Queen\u2019s Jubilee may not seem to have much relevance to an American historian, but actually the very word \u201cjubilee\u201d strikes a chord particularly for those who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[18,54,52,772,56],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-african-american-history","tag-american-civil-war","tag-history","tag-neil-wynn","tag-roots-music"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3539,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions\/3539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}