Negro workaday songs / by Howard W. Odum and Guy B. Johnson.

Author/creator Odum, Howard Washington
Other author Johnson, Guy Benton, 1901-1991.
Format Book
Publication InfoChapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press ; London : H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1926.
Descriptionxii, 278 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesUniversity of North Carolina social study series
Social study series (University of North Carolina (1793-1962)) ^A559435
Contents Background resources in Negro song and work -- The blues : workaday sorrow songs -- Songs of the lonesome road -- Bad man ballads and jamboree -- Songs of jail, chain gang, and policemen -- Songs of construction camps and gangs -- Just songs to help with work -- Man's song of woman -- Woman's song of man -- Folk minstrel types -- Workaday religious songs -- The annals and blues of Left Wing Gordon -- John Henry : epic of the Negro workingman -- Types of Negro melodies -- Types of phono-photographic records of Negro singers.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 265-270) and index.
Acquisitions source Joyner NC Rare copy purchased from Saucony Book Shop 11/10/22
Issued in other formOnline version: Odum, Howard Washington, 1884-1954. Negro workaday songs. Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press ; London : H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1926
Genre/formCriticism, interpretation, etc.
Genre/formMusic.
LCCN 26014118

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner NC Rare ML3556.O3 N44 1926 ✔ Available Request Material