In 1871 a group of freed slaves took their music of bondage and suffering to white audiences for the first time. In a bid to avoid closure of Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, they went on tour. Their success, especially in Britain, guaranteed the future of their school. However, critics have Pointed to the fact that they used a European choral style to make their slave songs acceptable to white audiences.
Horace Boyer , an African-American musicolgist and former director of the Fisk Jubilee Singers, returns to
Nashville to re-examine their social and musical impact. Producer Paul Evans