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- Copyright
- Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press
- ISSN
- 1043-9455
- eISSN
- 2640-9879
- DOI
- 10.1215/10439455-9.1-2.203
- Publisher site
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Abstract
Chapter r2 The Folk Festival Fort Valley State College has the most unique enterprise of a folk nature held by any of the Negro colleges to come under my notice the Fort Valley State College Folk Festival. The origin and history of the festival is best told by the man who conceived of it, Horace Mann Bond: The Fort Valley State College Folk Festival began as an annex to a conventional college-high school music festival. The idea of a Folk Festival came to several persons at Fort Valley, including the President, Horace Mann Bond, after a visit one day to a rural church. The singing of the people was wonderful. There is no better word for it; yes, it was exactly and perfectly wonderful. So, then, at a Festival intended to teach young Negro high school students an appreciation of music, why not have a session or two devoted to the Folk and to their perfectly wonderful music? A sound idea; in practice, it did not work. The Folk need a Fes tival of their own; the people do not like to be on exhibition; they have come to the Fort Valley State College Festival because it was their
Journal
Black Sacred Music – Duke University Press
Published: Sep 1, 1995