The Reverend
Charles Pace
and the Pace Jubilee Singers are an important bridge between the nineteenth century jubilee
style of singing spirituals and the first wave of quartets and groups that sang a livelier brand of jubilee—one that emphasized the close harmonies of barbershop, rhythm, and the longer, often comic, story songs.
The Fisk Jubilee Singers spun off smaller, less-expensive aggregations as the jubilee craze began to wane in the early years of the twentieth century, most notably...