1st Edition
Minstrel Shows And Songs: An Archival Collection Of Early American Books And Documents
Volume 1: Songbooks Part I
Introduction by Keiko Wells
Christy’s Plantation Melodies, Book No. 1-4. Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Baltimore: Fisher and Brother, 1854.
Christy’s New Songster and Black Joker. New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, 1863.
Christy’s Bones and Banjo Melodist. New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, 1867.
Volume 2: Songbooks Part II
Christy’s and White’s Ethiopian Melodies. Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & Bros., [1854]
1. Christy and Wood’s New Song Book.
2. White’s New Illustrated Melodeon Song Book.
3. White’s New Book of Plantation Melodies.
4. White’s New Ethiopean Song Book.
5. Whites’s Serenaders’ Song Book.
Volume 3 : Manual & Guide Books
Dumont, Frank. The Witmark Amateur Minstrel Guide and Burnt Cork Encyclopedia. Chicago & London: M. Witmark & Sons, 1899.
Powell, Herbert P.. The World’s Best Book of Minstrelsy, Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Co., 1926.
Volume 4 : History and Sheet Music
Paskman, Dailey & Sigmund Spaeth. "Gentlemen, Be Seated!": A Parade of the Old-Time Minstrels. New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1928.
Old Dan Emmit’s Original Banjo Melodies. "My Old Aunt Sally" & "O Lud Gals Me etc." Boston: Chas. H. Keith, 1843.
Virginia Minstrels: The Celebrated Negro Melodies. "Ole Dan Tucker." Boston: Geo. P. Reed, 1843.
Virginia Minstrels: "Jim Crack Corn." Baltimore: F. D. Benteen, 1846.
Virginia Minstrels. Playbills
Biography
Professor Keiko Wells, College of Letters, Ritsumeikan University, Japan
