Description |
1 score (64 pages) : illustrations ; 32 cm. |
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score |
Series |
Traditional Black music
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Traditional Black music.
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Note |
Includes index. |
Summary |
A collection of more than two dozen songs sung by African American slaves. |
Contents |
Nobody knows the trouble I see -- I am a-trouble in the mind -- Darling Nellie Gray -- I can't stay behind -- Go in the wilderness -- Blow your trumpet, Gabriel -- Praise, member -- Go down, Moses -- Who laid de rail? -- Wade in the water -- Jim along Josey -- Jump Jim Crow -- The blue-tail fly -- Ole Zip Coon -- Heave away -- All the pretty little horses -- Michael, row the boat ashore -- I am sold and going to Georgia -- Charleston gals -- Raise a ruckus tonight -- Nat Turner -- Escape from slavery of Henry Box Brown -- Harriet Tubman's ballad -- Follow the drinking gourd -- Many thousand gone -- I want to go home -- Some valiant soldier -- Slavery chain done broke at last. |
Subject |
Folk music -- United States.
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Folk music. |
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United States. |
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Folk songs, English -- United States.
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Folk songs, English. |
Genre/Form |
Spirituals (Songs)
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Spirituals (Songs)
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Folk music.
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Folk music.
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Scores.
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Scores.
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Added Author |
Silverman, Jerry, 1931-
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ISBN |
0791018377 |
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0791018539 paperback |
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