| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.2

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Book Review

Dark Midnight When I Rise: The Story of the Jubilee Singers Who Introduced the World to the Music of Black America. By Andrew Ward. (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2000. xviii, 493 pp. $25.00, ISBN 0-374-18771-1.)

The world has become so accustomed to listening (and to marveling) at the many sounds springing from African American music that it is difficult to imagine a time when they were totally absent from the public scenery. Yet, as Dark Midnight When I Rise shows, it was no easy path to bring to light the spirituals sprouting from the sentimental legacy of American southern slaves. 1

In a carefully researched narrative of the lives and times of the Fisk University Jubilee Singers, Andrew Ward allows us to visualize the trials that those who dared to introduce the world to the music of black America endured. As the reader will soon realize, "the world"—as mentioned in the subtitle—meant not only peoples of other countries but also white America. . . .

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