| #2031569 in Books | Dover Publications | 2001-10-24 | 2001-10-24 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 11.24 x.40 x6.22l,.59 | File type: PDF | 176 pages||From Library Journal|Published in 1918, this volume collects 19 traditional spirituals, works songs, and play songs, divided by category with complete words and music. Each grouping contains an essay outlining the background and social significance of the son
This collection of Negro folk songs represents a faithful effort to place on paper a precise record of old traditional plantation songs, exactly as they were sung by black students at Virginia's Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute. Dedicated to the education of former slaves, this nineteenth-century establishment was home to some 900 students from all parts of the United States. The songs were compiled by musicologist Natalie Curtis-Burlin, whose brilliant ...
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