{"id":1437,"date":"2012-10-10T15:24:02","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T22:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1437"},"modified":"2018-07-05T09:12:51","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T16:12:51","slug":"jackson-george-pullen-1874-1953","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1437","title":{"rendered":"JACKSON, GEORGE PULLEN, 1874-1953"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ethnomusicologist, linguist, college professor. Born&#8211; August 20, 1874, Monson, Maine (moved to Birmingham as a child). Parents&#8211; George Frederick and Ann Jane (Pullen) Jackson. Married&#8211; Inez Emeline Wright, December 23, 1906 (died 1918).\u00a0 Children&#8211;two. Married&#8211; Lois Diantha Barnes, December 18, 1926 (died 1939). Education&#8211; Royal Conservatory of Music, Dresden, 1897-1898; Vanderbilt University, 1900-1901; University of Chicago, Ph.B., 1904, Ph.D., 1911; postgraduate work, University of Chicago, University of Munich, University of Bonn. Employed by his father&#8217;s company, Huston Biscuit Co., Birmingham, 1895-1900; taught German at Kansas State Agricultural College; Case School of Applied Science; University of Chicago; Oberlin College; Northwestern University; University of North Dakota; Vanderbilt University, 1918-1943. President, University Philharmonic Society, Grand Fork, North Dakota; founder of Nashville Symphony Orchestra; founder of Tennessee Music Teachers Association; founder of Old Harp Singers of Nashville and other shaped note singing groups; member, board of advisors to the editors of Southern Folklore Quarterly; member and president,\u00a0South Atlantic Modern Language Association. Died January 19, 1953.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;George Pullen Jackson, An Appreciation,&#8221; Southern Folklore Quarterly, XVII (March 1953).<\/p>\n<p>Marquis Who&#8217;s Who Online.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Another Sheaf of White Spirituals. Gainesville, Fla.; University of Florida Press, 1952.<\/p>\n<p>Down East Spirituals. New York; J.J. Augustin, 1943.<\/p>\n<p>Spiritual Folksongs of Early America. New York; J. J. Augustin, 1937.<\/p>\n<p>Story of the Sacred Harp. Nashville; Vanderbilt University Press, 1944.<\/p>\n<p>White and Negro Spirituals. New York; J. J. Augustin, 1943.<\/p>\n<p>White Spirituals in the Southern Uplands. Chapel Hill, N.C.; University of North Carolina Press, 1933.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>American Folk Music for High School and Other Choral Groups. Boston; C. C. Burchard, 1947.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Papers;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Special Collections Department at the Heard Library at Vanderbilt University holds an extensive collection of papers and other materials of George Pullen Jackson. A collection of George Pullen Jackson&#8217;s books and papers is held by the library at UCLA.<\/p>\n<p><em>Updated 09\/21\/2011<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Ethnomusicologist, linguist, college professor. Born&#8211; August 20, 1874, Monson, Maine (moved to Birmingham as a child). Parents&#8211; George Frederick and Ann Jane (Pullen) Jackson. Married&#8211; Inez Emeline Wright, December 23, 1906 (died 1918).\u00a0 Children&#8211;two. Married&#8211; Lois Diantha Barnes, December 18, 1926 (died 1939). Education&#8211; Royal Conservatory of Music, Dresden, 1897-1898; Vanderbilt University, 1900-1901; University [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-j-l"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1437"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8351,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437\/revisions\/8351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}