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Lucy McKim Garrison (October 30, 1842 – May 11, 1877) was an American song collector and co-editor of Slave Songs of the United States, together with William Francis Allen and Charles Pickard Ware.
Lucy McKim Garrison was a musicologist born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on October 30, 1842. She was born to James Miller and Sarah Allibone McKim. Her parents and other family members were known throughout the abolitionist community and had connections to Quakerism.
McKim Garrison pioneered efforts to document the songs of slaves in the southern United States to advocate for abolition and also preserve important history and culture. After publishing Slave Songs of the United States, Lucy McKim Garrison married Wendell Phillip Garrison, son of prominent abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, on December 6, 1865.
History, Sociology, Music. In the spring of 1862, Lucy McKim, the nineteen-year-old daughter of a Philadelphia abolitionist Quaker family, traveled with her father to the Sea Islands of S...
Die Sammler der Lieder waren die Nordstaaten-Abolitionisten William Francis Allen, Lucy McKim Garrison und Charles Pickard Ware. Es ist auch die erste derartige Sammlung von afroamerikanischer Musik, die jemals veröffentlicht wurde.
Fascinated by the singing of the newly-freed African Americans, Francis Allen, Lucy McKim Garrison, and Charles Pickard Ware wrote down the texts and notated the music of the songs they heard. They published the songs and their observations in the 1867 book “Slave Songs of the United States.”
In Songs of Sorrow: Lucy McKim Garrison and “Slave Songs of the United States,” renowned music scholar Samuel Charters tells McKim's personal story. Letters reveal the story of young women's...
