1st Edition

American Negro Spirituals (ES 4-vol. set)

Edited By Keiko Wells Copyright 2012
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Published by EPM in Japan and distributed outside of Japan by Routledge - The first major reprint collection of African-American music, including negro spirituals, slave songs, and African-American folk songs: crucial cultural artefacts for those seeking to understand the development of African-American culture and its acceptance by mainstream American society. - The collection brings... Read more

Volume 1: Higginson, Thomas Wentworth. "Negro Spirituals" The Atlantic Monthly, Volume XIX (June, 1867) pp. 685-94; Allen, William Francis, Charles Pickard Ware and Lucy McKim Garrison. Slave Songs of the United States. New York: A. Simpson & Co., 1867, xliv, 115pp. Pike, G.D. The Jubilee Singers and Their Campaign for Twenty Thousand Dollars. Boston: Lee and Shepard. New York: Lee, Shapard and Dillingham. 1873, 219pp. Volume 2: Taylor, Marshall W., D.D. A Collection of Revival Hymns and Plantation Melodies. Cincinnati: Marshall W. Taylor and W.C. Echols, 1883, 272pp. Work, J. Frederick. Folk Songs of the American Negro, Number One. Nashville: Work Bros.&Hart Co., 1907. 64pp. Volume 3: Marsh, J.B.T. The Story of the Jubilee Singers, with Supplement; Containing an Account of their Six Years’ Tour around the World, and many of their New Songs by F.J.Loudin. 1881. Cleveland: The Cleveland Printing & Publishing Co.,1892, vi,311pp. Volume 4: Krehbiel, Henry Edward. Afro-American Folksongs: A Study in Racial and National Music New York: G. Schrimer, 1914. xii, 176pp. Work, John Wesley. Folk Song of the American Negro. Nashville: Press of Fisk University, 1915. 132pp. Gospel Pearls. Edited and Compiled by Music Committee of the Sunday School Publishing Board. Nashville: Sunday School Publishing Board National Baptist Convention, 1921. 164pp.

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Keiko Wells