Slave Negro Folk Songs Music Religious Cabin Plantation Songs African American

  
Religious Folk-Songs of The Negro As Sung At Hampton Institute. Published by Hampton Institute Press, Hampton, VA, 1927. Very good hardcover, no dustjacket.

Tight binding, solid spine, very good cover, previous owner's signature & date to front endpaper, clean unmarked text, light foxing, musical notation, in mylar sleeve (small tear to mylar). Blue cloth, gilt titling, 8vo, Xxvii, 236, ii, XIII pp.

A collection of African American songs, with music and lyrics, as sung by students at Hampton Institute which was one of the early and prominent players in the Jubilee movement which began around 50 years earlier. Music, cabin and plantation songs, slave songs and music. SLAVE NEGRO FOLK SONGS MUSIC RELIGIOUS CABIN PLANTATION SONGS AFRICAN AMERICAN.