57 Rare Old Books on African American Folk Songs spirituals blues gospel work songs ballads field hollers ringshouts - Instant PDF Download

THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN FOLK SONG & POETRY COLLECTION

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The Digital Library is proud to present this stunning virtual archive of 57 rare, out-of-print books compiled together for the first time creating a wonderful library of AFRICAN-AMERICAN FOLK SONGS & POETRY.

Discover the genius of African-American songs and melodies from years gone by. Including hundreds of fascinating plantation and cabin songs, slave songs, poems, folk-lore, workaday pieces, lyrics and folk rhymes. Also included are several African-American reminiscences on slave life in the south and recollections of southern life on the plantations during the days before the war, including Samuel Northup’s masterpiece ‘Twelve years a slave’. Some of the books contained within this collection are extremely hard-to-find and will provide a valuable library of reference material. Overall, this is an absolute must for anyone with an interest in African-American folk-songs, plantation melodies and the history and ancestry of the black race in America. The full list of titles included speaks for itself….

Some of the books contained within this collection are extremely hard to find and will provide a valuable library of reference material.

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*** Full List of Books Included ***


An inside view of slavery or, A tour among the planters - C. G. Parsons (1855)

Book of popular songs - being a compendium of the best sentimental, comic, Negro, Irish, Scotch, national, patriotic, military, naval, social, convivial and pathetic songs, ballads and melodies (1861)

Cabin and plantation songs as sung by the Hampton students - T. P. Fenner (1901)

Christy's plantation melodies - E. P. Christy (1851)

Collection of revival hymns and plantation melodies - M. W. Taylor (1883)

Creole slave songs - G. W. Cable (1886)

Fifty years & other poems - J. W. Johnson (1917)

Folk beliefs of the southern Negro - N. Puckett (1922)

Folk song of the American Negro - J. W. Work (1915)

Gospel pearls (1921)

Idle moments - containing Emancipation and other poems - D. W. Davis (1895)

Lyrics of lowly life - P. L. Dunbar (1896)

Lyrics of the hearthside - P. L. Dunbar (1899)

Mammy's reminiscences, and other sketches - M. S. Gielow (1898)

My bondage and my freedom, Part I - Life as a slave, Part II - Life as a freeman - F. Douglass (1855)

Negro folk rhymes, wise and otherwise - T. W. Talley (1922)

Negro folk singing games and folk games of the habitants - G. C. Porter (1914)

Negro folk-songs Vol. 1 - N. Curtis-Burlin (1918)

Negro folk-songs Vol. 2 - N. Curtis-Burlin (1918)

Negro folk-songs Vol. 3 - N. Curtis-Burlin (1918)

Negro folk-songs Vol. 4 - N. Curtis-Burlin (1918)

Negro minstrel; containing a choice selection of the most popular negro songs - J. Crawhall (1850)

Negro poems, melodies, plantation pieces, camp meeting songs, etc. - W. C. Blades (1921)

Negro wit and humor - also containing folk lore, folk songs, race peculiarities, race history - M. F. Harman (1914)

Negro workaday songs - H. W. Odum (1921)

Nights with Uncle Remus - J. C. Harris (1917)

Old melodies of the South - C. Jacobs-Bond (1918)

Old plantation days; being recollections of southern life before the civil war - N. B. De Saussure (1909)

On the trail of negro folk-songs - D. Scarborough (1921)

Plantation echoes; a collection of original Negro dialect poems - E. B,. Henderson (1904)

Plantation reminiscences by Page Thacker [pseud.] (1878)

Plantation songs for my lady's banjo, and other Negro lyrics & monologues - M. Young (1901)

Plantation songs, and other verse - R. Stuart (1916)

Poems by a slave - G. M. Horton (1837)

Religious folk songs of the Negro as sung on the plantations - T. P. Fenner (1909)

Religious folk-songs of the Southern negroes - H. W. Odum (1909)

Scraps of song and southern scenes; a collection of humorous and pathetic poems and descriptive sketches of plantation life in the backwoods of Georgia - M. Folsom (1889)

Sketches of slave life - P. Randolph (1855)

Some current folk-songs of the negro - W. H. Thomas (1912)

Songs in Henry Russell's vocal and pictorial entertainment, entitled The far West; or, The emigrant's progress from the old world to the new and, Negro life, in freedom and in slavery - H. Russell (1850)

The American college songster - a collection of songs, glees, and melodies, containing also popular American, English, Irish and German songs, Negro melodies, etc. - S. Andrews (1876)

The book of American Negro poetry - J. W. Johnson (1922)

The complete poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar, with the introduction to Lyrics of lowly life - P. L. Dunbar (1913)

The Ethiopian glee book - containing the songs sung by the Christy Minstrels with many other popular Negro melodies, in four parts No. 2 - E. Howe (1848)

The Ethiopian glee book - containing the songs sung by the Christy Minstrels with many other popular Negro melodies, in four parts No. 3 - E. Howe (1849)

The Liberty Minstrel - G. W. Clark (1846)

The National minstrel folio - containing a splendid selection of ballads, comic and sentimental songs, plantation melodies, etc., etc. (1889)

The Negro and his songs, a study of typical Negro songs in the South - H. W. Odum (1922)

The old plantation melodies - S. C. Foster (1888)

The story of the Jubilee Singers, with their songs - J. Marsh (1880)

The tar-baby, and other rhymes of Uncle Remus - J. C. Harris (1904)

The voice of the negro in South Carolina; poems - E. Posey (1917)

The widening light - C. W. Clifford (1922)

True Negro music and its decline - J. R. Murphy (1903)

Twelve years a slave - S. Northup (1853)

Uncle Remus and his friends - old plantation stories, songs, and ballads, with sketches of Negro character - J. C. Harris (1892)

Voodoo tales, as told among the negroes of the South-west - M. A. Owen (1893)



An absolute must for anyone with an interest in African-American folk songs, and the music, melodies and poetry created on the plantations many years ago – an unbelievable treasure trove of information for a very small price!



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