Season 1 Episode 4: Singing from the Margins
Hosted By Vanessa Warne, Jessie Krahn, and Anne Hung
With Guests Diana Maltz, Alisa Clapp-Itnyre, Frederick Roden, and Heather Marcovitch
Listen to this episode to hear the songs Victorians sang and to discover the role of vocal music in the lives of marginalized individuals and groups.
Transcript
Read a complete transcript of the episode here!
Transcript created by Natalie LoVetri.
References & Resources
Learn more about Diana Maltz’s research.
Visit the Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slave-ownership.
Read Andrew Ward’s Dark Midnight When I Rise. Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2000.
Read a short article on the Fisk Jubilee Singers from PBS’s American Experience.
Check out the Fisk Jubilee Singers and their version of “Steal Away.”
Learn more about Alisa Clapp-Intyre’s research.
Check out Sounding Childhood, part of Sounding Victorian, a Phyllis Weliver collaborative.
Read Sarah Eddy’s Songs of Happy Life: for Schools, Homes and Bands of Mercy. Art and Nature Study, 1898.
Learn more about Heather Markovitch’s research.
Check out Frederick Roden’s work including Recovering Jewishness: Modern Identities Reclaimed. Praeger, 2016.
Read Israel Zangwill’s The Melting Pot. 1908.
Visit the Milken Archives of Jewish Music.
Learn about Roots of Reform Judaism.
Explore the Jewish Music Research Centre.
And to see some examples of Victorian feathered hats click here.
Victorian Samplings was recorded and produced on the territory of the lək̓ʷəŋən and SENĆOŦEN speaking communities of the Songhees, Esquimalt, and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples, and on Treaty One Territory, traditional Land of the Anishinaabeg, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota, and Dene peoples and homeland of the Métis Nation.
Our podcast theme is “Happy Jazzy Ragtime Piano” by Praded, licensed by AudioJungle; our podcast stinger was made and donated by Brandon Christopher.
The Story of the Jubilee Singers. 1875, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC (detail).