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The Fisk Jubilee Singers were a group of African American singers in the 1870s. Their repertoire centered on spirituals, but also included some Stephen Foster songs. The word jubilee was originally intended to set them apart from blackface minstrels, but was soon adopted in the names of several minstrel troupes.<ref>Lott, Eric. Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. ISBN 0-19-507832-2. p. 236.</ref>

The singers were a fundraising effort for Fisk University, although one that was not initially approved by the university itself.<ref>Ben S. Austin, The Fisk University Jubilee Singers, Middle Tennessee State University. Accessed 31 August 2006.</ref><ref>Kay Beasley, Fisk Jubilee Singers (1871–), Tennessee State University. Accessed 31 August 2006.</ref>

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• Fisk Jubilee Singers cylinder recordings, from the Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project at the University of California, Santa Barbara Library.