On the Trail of Negro Folk-songs

On the Trail of Negro Folk-songs
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 306
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ISBN-10 : 0674012623
ISBN-13 : 9780674012622
Rating : 4/5 (23 Downloads)

Book Synopsis On the Trail of Negro Folk-songs by : Dorothy Scarborough

Download or read book On the Trail of Negro Folk-songs written by Dorothy Scarborough and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1925 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces Negro folksongs back to their American beginnings. Dance songs, ballads, lullabies, work songs, and others are discussed.

On The Trail Of Negro Folk-Songs

On The Trail Of Negro Folk-Songs
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Publisher : Aegitas
Total Pages : 339
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ISBN-10 : 9780369407672
ISBN-13 : 0369407679
Rating : 4/5 (72 Downloads)

Book Synopsis On The Trail Of Negro Folk-Songs by : Dorothy Scarborough

Download or read book On The Trail Of Negro Folk-Songs written by Dorothy Scarborough and published by Aegitas. This book was released on 2022-06-02 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How often have I overheard alluring snatches of song, only to be baffled by denial when I asked for more. Kindly black faces smile indulgently as at the vagaries of an imaginative child, when I persist in pleading for the rest. "Nawm, honey, I wa and n and t singing nothing — nothing a-tall! " How often have I been tricked into enthusiasm over the promise of folk-songs, only to hear age-worn phonograph records, — but perhaps so changed and worked upon by usage that they could possibly claim to be folk-songs after all! — or Broadway echoes, or conventional songs by white authors! Yet cajolements might be in vain, even though all the time I knew, by the uncanny instinct of folk-lorists, that there were folk-songs there. And even when you get a song started, when you are listening with your heart in your ear and the greed of the folk-lorist in your eye, you may lose out. If you seem too much interested, the song retreats, draws in like a turtle and s head, and no amount of coaxing will make it venture back. And there is something positively fatal about a pencil! Songs seem to be afraid of lead-poisoning. Or perhaps the pencil is secretly attached by a cord (a vocal cord?) to the singer and s tongue. It must be so, for otherwise, why has it so often happened that when I, distrustful of my tricky memory to hold a precious song, have sneaked a pencil out to take notes, the tongue has suddenly jerked back and refused to wag again? Yet that is not always the case, for sometimes the knowledge that his song is being written down inspires a bard with more respect for it and he gives it freely.

American Ballads and Folk Songs

American Ballads and Folk Songs
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Publisher : Courier Corporation
Total Pages : 674
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ISBN-10 : 0486282767
ISBN-13 : 9780486282763
Rating : 4/5 (67 Downloads)

Book Synopsis American Ballads and Folk Songs by : Alan Lomax

Download or read book American Ballads and Folk Songs written by Alan Lomax and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music and lyrics for over 200 songs. John Henry, Goin' Home, Little Brown Jug, Alabama-Bound, Ten Thousand Miles from Home, Shack Bully Holler, Black Betty, The Hammer Song, Bad Man Ballad, Jesse James, Down in the Valley, The Bear in the Hill, Shortenin' Bread, The Ballad of Davy Crockett, and many more.

Folk Song of the American Negro

Folk Song of the American Negro
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Total Pages : 148
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ISBN-10 : UCSC:32106001384681
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Book Synopsis Folk Song of the American Negro by : John Wesley Work

Download or read book Folk Song of the American Negro written by John Wesley Work and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

American Negro Folk-songs

American Negro Folk-songs
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Total Pages : 520
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ISBN-10 : MINN:31951001728860Q
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Book Synopsis American Negro Folk-songs by : Newman Ivey White

Download or read book American Negro Folk-songs written by Newman Ivey White and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While his father works in the city over the winter, a young boy thinks of some good times they've shared and looks forward to his return to their South African home in the spring.

American Ballads and Folk Songs

American Ballads and Folk Songs
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Publisher : Courier Corporation
Total Pages : 719
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ISBN-10 : 9780486319926
ISBN-13 : 048631992X
Rating : 4/5 (26 Downloads)

Book Synopsis American Ballads and Folk Songs by : John A. Lomax

Download or read book American Ballads and Folk Songs written by John A. Lomax and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-07-24 with total page 719 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music and lyrics for over 200 songs. John Henry, Goin' Home, Little Brown Jug, Alabama-Bound, Black Betty, The Hammer Song, Jesse James, Down in the Valley, The Ballad of Davy Crockett, and many more.

Ethnomusicology

Ethnomusicology
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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages : 578
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ISBN-10 : 0393033783
ISBN-13 : 9780393033786
Rating : 4/5 (83 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Ethnomusicology by : Helen Myers

Download or read book Ethnomusicology written by Helen Myers and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1993 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complementing Ethnomusicology: An Introduction, this volume of studies, written by world-acknowledged authorities, places the subject of ethnomusicology in historical and geographical perspective. Part I deals with the intellectual trends that contributed to the birth of the discipline in the period before World War II. Organized by national schools of scholarship, the influence of 19th-century anthropological theories on the new field of "comparative musicology" is described. In the second half of the book, regional experts provide detailed reviews by geographical areas of the current state of ethnomusicological research.