| Description |
xi, xxiii, 256 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 29 cm |
| Note |
Reprint of the 1942 ed., with a new foreword. |
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Includes words and music (melodies unaccompanied) of 60 songs. |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 253-256. |
| Contents |
Concerning slave songs and their preservation -- African survivals on the coast of Georgia. Freewillum ; Rockah mh moomba ; I wok om a mo-na ; Byum by-e -- Afro-American shout songs. Ha'k 'e angels ; Until I die ; Where was Peter ; Plumb de line ; Down to de mire ; Eli ah can't stan' ; Moonlight-starlight ; Knee-bone ; Oh Eve- where is Adam? ; Blow Gabriel ; My soul rock on jubilee ; Good-bye everybody -- Ring-play, dance and fiddle songs. Emma you my darlin' ; Go roun' the border Susie ; Sangaree ; It's cold frosty mornin' ; Pretty green shawl ; Four and twenty lawyers ; Shout Josephine shout ; The buzzard lope, a solo dance ; Throw me anywhere ; Gimmie him ; Stickit ball and hack ; Ham bone ham bone ; Juda dis an'Juda dat ; Ball the jack ; Fiddle songs-fragments ; Bile dem cabbage down ; Way down in the ole peedee ; Johnny come a long time ; I jing-a-ling -- Religious songs. Church, prayer, and covenant meeting ; Believer I know ; Norah, hist the windah ; That suits me ; Wasn' that a wonder ; I heard the angels singin' ; Can't hide sinner ; John, John ; When I rise cryin' holy ; No hidin' place ; Livin' humble ; Swing low sweet chariot ; When my lord calls me I must go ; Zion ; My God is a rock in a weary land ; The bell done ring ; An' He never said a mumblin' word ; May be the las'time I don't know ; One-a these days ; Baptism ; Wade in nuh watun childun ; Sabbath has no end ; "Settin'-up" ; In that old field ; Jesus gon tuh make up my dyin' bed ; O de robe ; Ride on conquering king ; Aye Lord, time is drawin' nigh ; Nummer me one ; For I ain' goin' t'die no mo' ; "Buryin'" ; In some lonesome graveyard ; I got to lay in yonder graveyard -- Work songs. Shaties ; Call me hagin' Johnny ; Knock a man down ; Sandy Anna ; Pay me my money down ; Debt I owe ; Ragged leevy ; Good-bye my Riley O ; Ole tar river ; Shilo Brown ; This time another year ; Haul away, I'm a rollin' king ; Sundown below ; My soul be at res' ; Anniebelle ; Rice songs ; Do remember ; Peas an' the rice ; Hard time in ole Virginny ; A.B.A.B.A. ; I gwine t'beat dis rice ; Rowing songs ; Oh when I come to die ; Miscellaneous work songs ; Five fingers in the boll ; Drinkin' of the wine ; When I'm gone to come no mo'. |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Music.
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African Americans -- Music. |
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African Americans -- Sea Islands.
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African Americans. |
| Genre/Form |
Folk music.
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Folk music.
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Music.
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Music.
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| Added Author |
Churchill, Creighton.
Slave songs of the Georgia Sea islands.
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MacGimsey, Robert, 1898-1979.
Slave songs of the Georgia Sea islands.
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