Negro Folk Music, U.S.A. / / Harold Courlander.
Examines the cultural continuity and the evidence of a large and significant oral literature tradition in African American music.
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1963] ©1963 |
| Year of Publication: | 1963 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (324 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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
- The Music
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Discography
- Sources of Notated Songs
- Index