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1872 N.Y. Tribune 17 Feb. 3/6 Unique Vocal Concert by the Jubilee Singers.

c1872 T. F. Seward (title) Jubilee songs as sung by the Jubilee Singers, of Fisk University.

1873 G. D. Pike Jubilee Singers 163 The excellent rendering of the Jubilee Band is made more effective..by the comparison of their former state of slavery..with the present prospects and hopes of their race.

1922 Jrnl. Amer. Folk-lore 35 248 Every Time I Feel the Spirit. This is one of the most thrilling of the later jubilee songs.

1946 S. H. Holbrook Lost Men Amer. Hist. 133 The Chautauqua offered no such strong meat as the Lyceum, but went in for bell ringers, jubilee singers, preachers..and assorted stuffed shirts.

1949 B. A. Botkin Treasury Southern Folklore v. i. 701 Besides his ‘jubilee’ and ‘sorrow songs’, the Negro has his ‘sinful’ songs.

1956 M. Stearns Story of Jazz (1957) xii. 133 The next step in this blending, which produced both ring~shout and spiritual, is the jubilee. Jubilees are both cheerful and rhythmic, usually announcing some sort of good news.

1961 J. Jahn in A. Dundes Mother Wit (1973) 99/1 The hymns of Christian European origin used by the missions are Africanized, producing jubilees.

1968 P. Oliver Screening Blues Introd. 7 Blues recordings accounted for nearly half the total output in the 'twenties whereas religious issues, including those by solo evangelists and jubilee groups, totalled only a fraction over a sixth of the number.

1968 P. Oliver Screening Blues ii. 81 The gospel, or jubilee, quartets performed all their songs in harmonized style which smoothed out the differences between the blues, popular and gospel song forms.