Open AccessWhat’s the Score? Interpreting Transcriptions of the Fisk Jubilee Spirituals
Author(s) -
Sandra Jean Graham
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
muzikološki zbornik/muzikološki zbornik
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.108
H-Index - 4
eISSN - 2350-4242
pISSN - 0580-373X
DOI - 10.4312/mz.42.1.115-125
Subject(s) - ethnography , representation (politics) , ideology , performance art , art , history , literature , art history , archaeology , political science , politics , law
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.