Negro Workaday Songs
Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7. Very Good. Item #12962
Scarce and invaluable early 20th-century work on the historical vernacular and commonplace folk music of African Americans. Rare in original dust jacket."Disregarding for the most part, the authors, in this instance, have collected the songs which the Negro sings when he is working, or going through the motions of working."Contains lyrics to dozens upon dozens of traditional black music, including a handful of early blues numbers, much of which is written in the vernacular of the day. Bound in publisher's charcoal cloth over boards, with titles stamped in gilt. Square Tight Binding. Clean interior. Mild edge wear, including bumped corners. Jacket with large closed tears, but intact as a whole with tape repairs to verso, and quite scarce as such.Jacket presents handsomely in archival mylar.A superior edition.
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