{"id":9,"date":"2009-02-24T11:44:42","date_gmt":"2009-02-24T16:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doddcenter.wordpress.com\/?p=9"},"modified":"2009-02-24T11:44:42","modified_gmt":"2009-02-24T16:44:42","slug":"jubilee-singers-sacrifice-and-glory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2009\/02\/24\/jubilee-singers-sacrifice-and-glory\/","title":{"rendered":"Jubilee Singers: Sacrifice and Glory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family:Verdana\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoPlainText\" style=\"margin:0\"><span style=\"font-size:small\">The Dodd Research Center&#8217;s African American Music Film Series presents:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoPlainText\" style=\"margin:0\"><span style=\"font-size:small\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoPlainText\" style=\"margin:0\"><span style=\"font-size:small\">&#8220;Jubilee Singers: Sacrifice and Glory&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoPlainText\" style=\"margin:0\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoPlainText\" style=\"margin:0\"><span style=\"font-size:small\">Thursday, February 26th<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoPlainText\" style=\"margin:0\"><span style=\"font-size:small\">4:30pm<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoPlainText\" style=\"margin:0\"><span style=\"font-size:small\">Konover Auditorium, Dodd Center<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoPlainText\" style=\"margin:0\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoPlainText\" style=\"margin:0\"><span style=\"font-size:small\">In the chaotic decade following the Civil War, a group of young ex-slaves in Nashville, Tennessee, set out on a mission to save their financially troubled school by giving concerts. Traveling first through cities in the North, then on to venues across Europe, the Jubilee Singers introduced audiences to the power of spirituals, the religious anthems of slavery. Driven to physical collapse and even death, the singers proved more successful &#8212; and more inspirational &#8212; than anyone could have imagined. A portrait of faith, music, and sacrifice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoPlainText\" style=\"margin:0\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoPlainText\" style=\"margin:0\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dodd Research Center&#8217;s African American Music Film Series presents: \u00a0 &#8220;Jubilee Singers: Sacrifice and Glory&#8221; \u00a0 Thursday, February 26th 4:30pm Konover Auditorium, Dodd Center \u00a0 In the chaotic decade following the Civil War, a group of young ex-slaves in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2009\/02\/24\/jubilee-singers-sacrifice-and-glory\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}