The Georgia Sea Island Singers

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/The_Georgia_Sea_Island_Singers

GPTKB entity

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	gptkb:musical_group
gptkbp:activePeriod	20th century 21st century
gptkbp:activeYearsStart	1920s
gptkbp:archivedAt	gptkb:Library_of_Congress gptkb:Smithsonian_Folkways
gptkbp:associatedWith	gptkb:Gullah_culture
gptkbp:awarded	National Heritage Fellowship (Bessie Jones, 1982)
gptkbp:culturalHeritage	gptkb:African-American
gptkbp:genre	folk African American spirituals
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	The Georgia Sea Island Singers
gptkbp:influenced	American folk revival civil rights movement music
gptkbp:influencedBy	African musical traditions slave spirituals
gptkbp:knownFor	preserving Gullah and African American folk traditions
gptkbp:label	gptkb:Folkways_Records
gptkbp:language	gptkb:Gullah English
gptkbp:notableAlbum	gptkb:So_Glad_I'm_Here gptkb:Join_the_Band
gptkbp:notableMember	gptkb:Bessie_Jones gptkb:Peter_Davis gptkb:Emma_Ramsey John Davis
gptkbp:notablePerformance	gptkb:1964_Newport_Folk_Festival Smithsonian Institution events
gptkbp:notableSong	gptkb:Adam_in_the_Garden gptkb:Buzzard_Lope gptkb:Moses,_Don't_Get_Lost gptkb:O_Day gptkb:Yonder_Come_Day
gptkbp:origin	gptkb:Georgia,_United_States
gptkbp:performedAt	gptkb:Newport_Folk_Festival gptkb:Smithsonian_Folklife_Festival
gptkbp:preserves	gptkb:spirituality gptkb:storytelling chants shouts work songs call and response singing children's game songs ring shout tradition
gptkbp:recordedAt	gptkb:Alan_Lomax
gptkbp:region	Sea Islands, Georgia
gptkbp:subjectOf	documentary recordings by Alan Lomax
gptkbp:website	https://folkways.si.edu/the-georgia-sea-island-singers
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:African-American_folk_music
gptkbp:bfsLayer	7