Margaret Walker is the great granddaughter of Vyry, his heroine, black slave from Georgia. Professor of Letters Jackson, Mississippi, she completed the book exactly a century after the date of the emancipation of his ancestor.
As in almost all novels, and they are many characters who are black and framework for the South in the days of slavery, it will be marked with songs and hymns. Especially hymns. As in families with religion, the blues was banned.
Margaret WALKER, Jubilee (Jubilee), 1966, Threshold 1968, Trad. Jean-Michel Jasienko
notes: "At these meetings, all sang in the heart of beautiful songs, songs full of fervor, which made a deep impression on Vyry and she tried to retain in his memory, for able to sing them at all times "(p.48)" Aunt Sally loved to sing at meetings of the Church of the Resurrection she sang and sometimes after work, especially on fine summer evenings "(p.74)" Later, slaves gathered in front of the house for prayer and sang hymns for the guests "(p. 112) "Then the negroes sang their songs of Christmas" (p.138) "The slaves had a big party, you could hear the fiddles and banjo, someone sang Oh here comes Sally, oh Sally comes through there, all took up the refrain in chorus "(p.139)" The music was provided by a choir white, black tunics, who sang hymns, a choir of slaves who sang spirituals, a solo white Grab your flight who sang like a bird and a black violinist, who scratched his plaintive notes over the pit "(p.187)" Sometimes, working, Vyry caught herself singing. When they heard him sing, the children stopped playing and came up to her because they loved these songs, old songs that slaves sang Aunt Sally and also tender and graceful romances time of war " (p. 282) "Vyry revived the cult to which she had attended. She heard the songs, the sermon, moving testimonies. She felt the intense joy of the last song of the evening "(p.360).
As in almost all novels, and they are many characters who are black and framework for the South in the days of slavery, it will be marked with songs and hymns. Especially hymns. As in families with religion, the blues was banned.
Margaret WALKER, Jubilee (Jubilee), 1966, Threshold 1968, Trad. Jean-Michel Jasienko
notes: "At these meetings, all sang in the heart of beautiful songs, songs full of fervor, which made a deep impression on Vyry and she tried to retain in his memory, for able to sing them at all times "(p.48)" Aunt Sally loved to sing at meetings of the Church of the Resurrection she sang and sometimes after work, especially on fine summer evenings "(p.74)" Later, slaves gathered in front of the house for prayer and sang hymns for the guests "(p. 112) "Then the negroes sang their songs of Christmas" (p.138) "The slaves had a big party, you could hear the fiddles and banjo, someone sang Oh here comes Sally, oh Sally comes through there, all took up the refrain in chorus "(p.139)" The music was provided by a choir white, black tunics, who sang hymns, a choir of slaves who sang spirituals, a solo white Grab your flight who sang like a bird and a black violinist, who scratched his plaintive notes over the pit "(p.187)" Sometimes, working, Vyry caught herself singing. When they heard him sing, the children stopped playing and came up to her because they loved these songs, old songs that slaves sang Aunt Sally and also tender and graceful romances time of war " (p. 282) "Vyry revived the cult to which she had attended. She heard the songs, the sermon, moving testimonies. She felt the intense joy of the last song of the evening "(p.360).
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