Negro folk music of Alabama
Series: Ethnic Folkways library
Published: 1951
Language: eng
Format: [sound recording]
Subjects: Folklore; Singing games; Spirituals (Songs); American Sermons; African Americans; Music
Notes: Manual sequence.

Identical program notes by Harold Courlander (43 p., illus.) inserted in each slipcase.

Music, both vocal and instrumental, sermons, and stories recorded in central and western Alabama, Jan. and Feb. 1950 by Harold Courlander, assisted by Ruby Pickens Tartt and Emma Courlander, in the course of a field trip sponsored by the Wenner-Gren Foundation.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. Secular songs.; title: v. 2. Religious music.; title: v. 3. Rich Amerson, 1.; title: v. 4. Rich Amerson, 2.; title: v. 5. Spirituals.; title: v. 6. Ring game songs and others.