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Negro folk music U.S.A

Label
Negro folk music U.S.A
Title
Negro folk music U.S.A
Creator
Contributor
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
Discusses the essence and development of various forms of Negro folk music, both vocal and instrumental, including ballads, blues, spirituals, worksongs, Louisiana Creole songs, cries, dances, and game songs. Includes words and music for forty-three songs, and discographies
Related
Cataloging source
DLC
http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
1908-1996
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Courlander, Harold
Dewey number
784.756
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • music
Index
no index present
LC call number
ML3556
LC item number
.C7
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
Ralph Ellison Collection (Library of Congress)
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • African Americans
  • Folk music
  • Folk songs, English
  • African Americans
  • African Americans
  • African Americans
  • African Americans
  • African Americans
  • Music
  • Folk songs
  • Music
  • Folk songs
  • Sheet music
  • African Americans
  • African Americans
  • Folk music
  • Folk songs, English
  • United States
Target audience
juvenile
Label
Negro folk music U.S.A
Instantiates
Publication
Note
"The music" (melodies with words): p. [221]-287
Bibliography note
Bibliography: p. [299]-301; Discography: p. [302]-308
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Performer's corner : Ballads and minstrelsy
  • Dances : Calindas, Buzzard lopes, and reels
  • Instruments : drums, gutbuckets, and horns
  • The music:
  • Wake up Jonah
  • Job, Job
  • Rock chariot
  • Wonder where is my brother gone
  • This may be your last time
  • Move, members move
  • The setting
  • Traveling shoes
  • It's getting late in the evening
  • King David
  • The sun will never go down
  • When you feel like moaning
  • Didn't you hear
  • My name's been written down
  • What month was Jesus born in
  • Noah, Noah
  • Everywhere I go my Lord
  • Negro folk music in the United States
  • Israelites shouting
  • Let me ride
  • Dark was the night
  • When Jesus met the woman at the well
  • Way bye and bye
  • Precious Lord, take my hand
  • I'm crossing Jordan River
  • Russia, let that moon alone
  • Long John
  • Rosie
  • Anthems and spirituals as oral literature
  • She done got ugly
  • Captain holler hurry
  • Black woman
  • Motherless children
  • I'm going uptown
  • Careless love
  • Look down
  • Meet me in the bottoms
  • Old lady Sally wants to jump
  • Green green rocky road
  • Cries, calls, whooping, and hollering
  • Little Sally Walker
  • Just watch that lady
  • Mary Mack
  • John Henry
  • Old John Booker
  • Sounds of work
  • Blues
  • Ring games and playparty songs
  • Louisiana Creole songs
Control code
ocm00480211
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
x, 324 p.
Isbn
9780231023658
Lccn
63018019
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illus., music.
Label
Negro folk music U.S.A
Publication
Note
"The music" (melodies with words): p. [221]-287
Bibliography note
Bibliography: p. [299]-301; Discography: p. [302]-308
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Performer's corner : Ballads and minstrelsy
  • Dances : Calindas, Buzzard lopes, and reels
  • Instruments : drums, gutbuckets, and horns
  • The music:
  • Wake up Jonah
  • Job, Job
  • Rock chariot
  • Wonder where is my brother gone
  • This may be your last time
  • Move, members move
  • The setting
  • Traveling shoes
  • It's getting late in the evening
  • King David
  • The sun will never go down
  • When you feel like moaning
  • Didn't you hear
  • My name's been written down
  • What month was Jesus born in
  • Noah, Noah
  • Everywhere I go my Lord
  • Negro folk music in the United States
  • Israelites shouting
  • Let me ride
  • Dark was the night
  • When Jesus met the woman at the well
  • Way bye and bye
  • Precious Lord, take my hand
  • I'm crossing Jordan River
  • Russia, let that moon alone
  • Long John
  • Rosie
  • Anthems and spirituals as oral literature
  • She done got ugly
  • Captain holler hurry
  • Black woman
  • Motherless children
  • I'm going uptown
  • Careless love
  • Look down
  • Meet me in the bottoms
  • Old lady Sally wants to jump
  • Green green rocky road
  • Cries, calls, whooping, and hollering
  • Little Sally Walker
  • Just watch that lady
  • Mary Mack
  • John Henry
  • Old John Booker
  • Sounds of work
  • Blues
  • Ring games and playparty songs
  • Louisiana Creole songs
Control code
ocm00480211
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
x, 324 p.
Isbn
9780231023658
Lccn
63018019
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illus., music.