Found 4 collections related to African American gospel singers

Founded in 1984 by Carl MaultsBy, the Rejoicensemble promotes musical performances and compositions by African American and African Diasporic composers and musicians. The Rejoicensemble collection contains programs, brochures, musical scores, and a published book on the basics of learning to play gospel music on piano by Carl MaultsBy. less

Founded in 1985, Lavender Light is a mixed chorus (women and men), consisting of members who have auditioned and run as a nonprofit organization. Although the group encompasses many ethnic and spiritual backgrounds, the choir provides a special ministry to Black lesbians and gays, who have historically been pressured by their communities to choose between their Blackness and their gayness. Their repertoire includes gospel (old and new), spirituals, and anthems. They produce two full concerts a year and frequently appear as guests at community functions, from church services to Gay Pride rallies. Past appearances have included Urban Bush Women's "Praise House"; the pilot episode of In the Life; the People of Color Joint Kwanzaa Ceremony; Mayor David N. Dinkins's Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., at City Hall; and Empire State Pride Agenda's 1999 annual fundraiser with keynote speakers President Bill Clinton and Senator Chuck Schumer. This collection mostly consists of administrative files such as bylaws, membership information, Board of Directors materials, minutes, and fundraising documents. There is a limited amount of material on concerts and performances. Most of the material dates from 1997-2003. less

Vincent Jubilee, a former dancer, earned his Ph.D. in English from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia in 1980. Prior to his PhD studies, Jubilee was a dancer in New York City, and shared an apartment with George Mills, another dancer. He also was a professor of American literature at the University of Puerto Rico from the 1970s to the late 1990s. The collection contains nine letters (1978-1995) written to Jubilee. Choreographer and dancer George Mills is the primary correspondent. The subjects of Mills's letters range from Alvin Ailey to Clara Ward, his career in dance, as well as mutual acquaintances including Doug Crutchfield (1938-1989), a Black gay former roommate of Mills in New York who moved to Denmark in the 1960s to teach jazz ballet. Scholar Houston Baker's letters to Jubilee concern Jubilee's dissertation as well as personal matters in the late 1970s. Historian Vincent Harding's letter shares his appreciation for Jubilee's support on the eve of Harding's publication, There Is a River: The Black Struggle for Freedom in America (1981). less

Musician and teacher Samuel Carroll Buchanan (1927-2010) received his PhD from New York University in 1987 with a dissertation on Black jubilee quartets in the United States. The collection consists of fifty-six audio recordings, primarily of interviews with former jubilee quartet members conducted by Buchanan as part of his doctoral research. less