Title: Afro-American folksongs :
Authors: Krehbiel, Henry Edward,
Date: 1962
Publisher: F. Ungar Pub. Co.
Physical description: xii, 176 p. music. 24 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: M
Contents: Chapter I, Folksongs in General -- Chapter II, Songs of the American Slaves -- Chapter III, Religious Character of the Songs -- Chapter IV, Modal Characteristics of the Songs -- Chapter V, Music Among the Africans -- Chapter VI, Variations from the Major Scale -- Chapter VII, Minor Variations and Characteristic Rhythms -- Chapter VIII, Structural Features of the Poems-Funeral Music -- Chapter IX, Dances of the American Negroes -- Chapter X, Songs of the Black Creoles -- Chapter XI, Satirical Songs of the Creoles -- Back Matter -- Many Thousand Go -- Done wid Driber's Dribin' -- Many Thousand Gone -- You May Bury Me in the East -- Oh! Rock Me, Julie -- I'm Gwine to Alabamy -- Acadian Boatmen's Song -- Round about the Mountain -- Nobody Knows de Trouble I've Seen -- A Great Campmeetin' -- Weeping Mary -- Come trembleing down -- You May Bury Me in de East' -- Baptizing Hymn -- Father Abraham, Tell it -- Nobody Knows the Trouble I See -- O've the Crossing -- Dig My Grave -- I Look o've Yonder -- O Graveyard! -- Tant sirop est doux -- Criole Candjo -- aurore Pradere -- Remon, Remon -- Three Dance-tunes from Martinique -- Pov' piti Lolotte -- Caroline -- Musieu Bainjo -- Loema tombe -- Marie0Clemence -- Michie Preval -- Weeping Mary -- Some Come Cripple -- Neve' a Man speak like this Man -- Jesus Heal'de Sick -- Opon de rock -- Nobody Knows the Trouble I See -- Ma mourri -- Martinique Long-Song -- Emgann Sant-Kast -- Rhyvelgyrch Cadpen Morgan.
Notes: Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): African American songs--History and criticism.; African Americans--Music--History and criticism; Black people--Songs and music--History and criticism.