Short Name: | John Wesley Work |
Full Name: | Work, John Wesley, 1873-1925 |
Birth Year: | 1873 |
Death Year: | 1925 |
John W. Work, Jr. (b. Nashville, TN, 1872; d. Nashville, 1925), is well known for his pioneering studies of African American folk music and for his leadership in the performance of spirituals. He studied music at Fisk University in Nashville and classics at Harvard and then taught Latin, Greek, and history at Fisk from 1898 to 1923. Director of the Jubilee Singers at Fisk, Work also sang tenor in the Fisk Jubilee Quartet, which toured the country after 1909 and made commercial recordings. He was president of Roger Williams University in Nashville during the last two years of his life. Work and his brother Frederick Jerome Work (1879-1942) were devoted to collecting, arranging, and publishing African American slave songs and spirituals. They published two collections: New Jubilee Songs as Sung by the Fisk Jubilee Singers (1901) and Folk Songs of the American Negro (1907).
Bert Polman
Texts by John Wesley Work (12) | As | Authority Languages | Instances |
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Dios, yo quiero ser cristiano de corazón, de corazón | John W. Work (Adapter) | Spanish | 2 |
El mundo ha esperado Que Cristo el Rey de paz | John W. Work (Author) | Spanish | 4 |
Goin' to lay down my sword and shield | John W. Work Jr., 1873-1925 (Author) | English | 1 |
Knocks like Jesus, Somebody's knockin' at your door | John W. Work (Author) | English | 11 |
Listen, poor sinner Somebody's knocking at your door | John W. Work (Author) | 1 | |
Lord, I want to be a Christian | John W. Work Jr. (Adapter) | English | 9 |
Nasceu na estrebaria | John Wesley Work (Author (stanzas)) | Portuguese | 2 |
Pastores sus rebaños | John W. Work, Jr. (Adapter) | Spanish | 6 |
طال انتظار العالم | John Wesley Work (Author) | Arabic | 1 |
¿Viste tú cuando en la cruz murió? | John W. Work (Adapter) | Spanish | 3 |
Voy a retirar mis armas | John W. Work Jr., 1873-1925 (Author) | Spanish | 2 |
While shepherds kept their watching | John W. Work, Jr., 1872-1925 (Author) | English | 63 |