| Description |
xii, 278 pages : illustrations, music ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Social study series (University of North Carolina (1793-1962))
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| Note |
Half title: The University of North Carolina. Social study series. |
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Reprint of the 1926 ed. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-270). |
| Contents |
Background resources in Negro song and work -- The blues : workaday sorrow songs -- Songs of the lonesome road -- Bad man ballads and jamboree -- Songs of jail, chain gang, and policemen -- Songs of construction camps and gangs -- Just songs to help with work -- Man's song of woman -- Woman's song of man -- Folk minstrel types -- Workaday religious songs -- The annals and blues of left wing Gordon -- John Henry : Epic of the Negro workingman -- Types of Negro melodies -- Types of phono-photographic records of Negro singers -- Bibliography. |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 265-270. |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Music -- History and criticism.
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African Americans -- Music. |
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Folk music -- Southern States -- History and criticism.
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Folk music. |
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Southern States. |
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Folk songs, English -- Southern States -- History and criticism.
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Folk songs, English. |
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Work songs -- Southern States -- History and criticism.
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Work songs. |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Johnson, Guy Benton, 1901-1991.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Odum, Howard Washington, 1884-1954. Negro workaday songs. New York, Negro Universities Press [1969] (OCoLC)620000716 |
| ISBN |
0837119383 |
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9780837119380 |
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