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Negro workaday songs

by Howard Washington Odum, Guy Benton Johnson

EN·~5 hours·20 chapters

Chapters

20 total

Please see the Transcriber’s Notes at the end of this text.

2:03

PREFACE

5:48

CHAPTER I BACKGROUND RESOURCES IN NEGRO SONG AND WORK

25:41

CHAPTER II THE BLUES: WORKADAY SORROW SONGS

28:54

CHAPTER III SONGS OF THE LONESOME ROAD

13:47

CHAPTER IV BAD MAN BALLADS AND JAMBOREE

28:03

CHAPTER V SONGS OF JAIL, CHAIN GANG, AND POLICEMEN

19:25

CHAPTER VI SONGS OF CONSTRUCTION CAMPS AND GANGS

31:07

CHAPTER VII JUST SONGS TO HELP WITH WORK

19:03

CHAPTER VIII MAN’S SONG OF WOMAN

19:11

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Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Original publisher

New Caledonia: University of North Carolina Press, 1926.

Credits

Tim Lindell, Harry Lamé, Jude Eylander and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Release date

2022-11-18

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69378

Subjects

African Americans -- Music -- History and criticism Folk music -- Southern States -- History and criticism Folk songs, English -- Southern States -- History and criticism Work songs -- Southern States -- History and criticism ML

About the authors

Howard Washington Odum

1884–1954

A pioneering Southern sociologist, he studied regional life, social change, and African American folklore while helping build modern social-science research at the University of North Carolina. His work mixed scholarship with institution-building, leaving a mark on sociology, publishing, and public welfare education.

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Guy Benton Johnson

1901–1991

A pioneering sociologist and anthropologist, he studied Black life in the rural South and spoke out for racial equality at a time when that stance took real courage. His work helped bring careful scholarship and plain moral clarity to questions of race, culture, and social change in the American South.