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Stand the Storm demonstrates the profound impact of spiritual quartet singing on African American history, reconsidering its significant role in post-Civil War African American educational institutions. Although largely forgotten today, spiritual quartets raised endowment and building funds, functioned as lyrical advocates for equality, served as institutional ambassadors, and demonstrated Black excellence. Abbott and Seroff's detailed research restores the spiritual quartet singing to its proper place in the African American freedom journey. . . . Stand the Storm is a magisterial work that showcases the authors' unparalleled expertise in Black music.--Robert L. Adams Jr., executive director of the Penn Center

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Lynn Abbott is an independent scholar living in New Orleans. His work has been published in American Music, 78 Quarterly, American Music Research Center Journal, and The Jazz Archivist. Doug Seroff is an independent scholar living in Greenbrier, Tennessee. His work has appeared in American Music, Popular Music and Society, Blues Unlimited, and the Rag Time Ephemeralist, among others. Abbott and Seroff are coauthors of Out of Sight: The Rise of African American Popular Music, 1889–1895; Ragged but Right: Black Traveling Shows, ""Coon Songs,"" and the Dark Pathway to Blues and Jazz; The Original Blues: The Emergence of the Blues in African American Vaudeville; and To Do This, You Must Know How: Music Pedagogy in the Black Gospel Quartet Tradition, all published by University Press of Mississippi.

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