Summary:
Negro Folk-Songs
Authentic record of traditional plantation songs sung by students at Virginia's Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, brilliantly compiled and notated. Includes 19 transcriptions of spirituals, work-songs, and play-songs, each scored for male quartet with piano reduction of vocal parts, from "Go Down, Moses" to "Cott'n-pickin' song." Includes discussions of social context of the times.
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