Negro Folk Music, U.S.A. / / Harold Courlander.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999
• VerfasserIn: Courlander, Harold,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1963]; ©1963
• Year of Publication: 1963
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (324 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Preface --; Contents --; The Music --; I. The Setting --; II. Negro Folk Music in the United States --; III. Anthems and Spirituals as Oral Literature --; IV. Cries, Calls, Whooping, and Hollering --; V. Sounds of Work --; VI. Blues --; VII. Ring Games and Playparty Songs --; VIII. Louisiana Creole Songs --; IX. Performers’ Corner: Ballads and Minstrelsy --; X. Dances: Calindas, Buzzard Lopes, and Reels --; XI. Instruments: Drums, Gutbuckets, and Horns --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Discography --; Sources of Notated Songs --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231887069; 9783110442489
• DOI: 10.7312/cour92108
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Harold Courlander.

Examines the cultural continuity and the evidence of a large and significant oral literature tradition in African American music.