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[Identification of item], in the Kerill Leslie Rubman Collection of Swan Silvertones Recordings #20152, Southern Folklife Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Encoded by: Laura Smith

Revisions by: Anne Wells, May 2020

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• Gospel music.
• Gospel musicians--United States.
• Swan Silvertones.
• Rubman, Kerill Leslie.

• Southern Folklife Collection Field Notes #30025

Kerill Leslie Rubman of Baltimore, Md., was a graduate student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received his master's degree in 1980. His thesis was titled "From 'Jubilee' to 'Gospel' in Black Male Quartet Singing."

The collection contains dubbed audio recordings of the African American gospel music group, the Swan Silvertones. Kerill Leslie Rubman, then a graduate student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, created dubs on open reel audio and audiocassette from commercial recordings of the Swan Silvertones published between the 1940s and 1960s. The dubbed recordings relate to Rubman's 1980 master's thesis titled "From 'Jubilee' to 'Gospel' in Black Male Quartet Singing." Supporting documentation accompanying the recordings reside in the Southern Folklife Collection Field Notes #30025. Field notes list the song titles, including "I Want to Rest" and "Amazing Grace."

• Audiocassette (FS-1159)
• Audiotape (FT-1261)
• Field Notes, Folder 556, Southern Folklife Collection Field Notes #30025