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educators. Track 7: The Fisk Jubilee Singers, Wade in the Water
Fisk Jubilee Singers, Neighborhood Concert, May 22, 2009,
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. This
award–winning choir of young men and women from Nashville,
Tennessee, preserves the distinctly American tradition of
singing "slave songs," known today as spirituals. Charlotte
Blake Alston introduces the Fisk Jubilee Singers and "The Battle
of Jericho."