1344Allen, William F., comp. Slave songs of the United States; the complete original collection (136 songs) collected and compiled by William Francis Allen, Charles Pickard Ware, and Lucy McKim Garrison in 1867, with new piano arrangements and guitar chords by Irving Schlein. [New York] Oak Publications [1965] 175 p. illus. M1670.A42 1965Includes facsim. of title page and preface of 1st ed. (New York, A. Simpson, 1867).
1345Bradford, Perry. Born with the blues; Perry Bradford's own story. The true story of the pioneering blues singers and musicians in the early days of jazz. New York, Oak Publications [c1965] 175 p. illus. ML410.B779B6
1346Carawan, Guy, and Candie Carawan. Ain't you got a right to the tree of life? The people of Johns Island, South Carolina, their faces, their words, and their songs, recorded by Guy and Candie Carawan. Photographed by Robert Yellin. Music transcribed by Ethel Raim, with a preface by Alan Lomax. New York, Simon and Schuster [1967, c1966] 190 p. illus., map. E185.93.S7C3Includes melodies with words.Bibliography: p. [11].
1347Chambers, Herbert A., ed. The treasury of Negro spirituals. [Foreword by Marian Anderson] New York, Emerson Books [1963, c1959] 125 p. illus. M1670.C45T7Contains 30 well-known spirituals, arranged for voice and piano, and six modern compositions, two of which are arranged for male quartet.
1348Charters, Samuel B. The bluesmen; the story and the music of the men who made the blues. New York, Oak Publications [1967+] illus., music, ports. [ML3561.J3C425] [TR: ML3561.B63C5]Contents.—v. 1. "The singers and the styles from Mississippi, Alabama, and Texas up to the Second World War, with a brief consideration of some of the traceable relationships between the blues and African song."
1349Courlander, Harold. Negro folk music, U.S.A. New York, Columbia University Press, 1963. 324 p. illus., music. ML3556.C7"The music" (melodies with words): p. [221]-287.Bibliography: p. [299]-301. Discography: p. [302]-308.
1350Dennison, Tim. The American Negro and his amazing music. New York, Vantage Press [1963] 76 p. ML3556.D45
1351Dett, Robert Nathaniel, ed. Religious folk-songs of the Negro as sung at Hampton Institute. Hampton, Va., Hampton Institute Press, 1927. xxvii, 236 p. M1670.H3 1927
1352Fisher, Miles M. Negro slave songs in the United States. New York, Russell & Russell [1968, c1953] xv, 223 p. ML3556.F58 1968Foreword by Ray Allen Billington.Includes texts of the songs, without the music.Bibliography: p. 193-213.Reprint also issued by Citadel Press, 1963.
1353Handy, William C., ed. Blues; an anthology. With an introduction by Abbe Niles. Illustrations by Miguel Covarrubias. New York, A. & C. Boni, 1926. 180 p. illus. M1630.18.H26B5 1926 [ML30.25e.H35]Music: p. 49-180.
1354Handy, William C., ed. A treasury of the blues; complete words and music of 67 great songs from Memphis blues to the present day. With an historical and critical text by Abbe Niles. With pictures by Miguel Covarrubias. [New York?] C. Boni; distributed by Simon and Schuster [1949] 258 p. illus. M1630.18.H26B5 1949First ed. published in 1926 under title: Blues, an Anthology."A selective bibliography": p. 254-255.
1355Hare, Maud C. Negro musicians and their music. Washington, Associated Publishers [1936] 439 p. plates, ports. ML3556.H3N4 [TR: Cuney-Hare, Maud]Includes music.Bibliography: p. 419-423.
1356Hayes, Roland. My songs; Aframerican religious folk songs arranged and interpreted by Roland Hayes. Boston, Little, Brown, 1948. 128 p. M1670.H4M9"An Atlantic Monthly Press book."
1357Jackson, Clyde O. The songs of our years; a study of Negro folk music. New York, Exposition Press [1968] 54 p. (An Exposition-university book) ML3556.J39Bibliography: p. [53]-54.
1358Jackson, George P. White and Negro spirituals, their life span and kingship, tracing 200 years of untrammeled song making and singing among our country folk, with 116 songs as sung by both races. New York, J. J. Augustin [1944] 349 p. illus., music, ports. ML3551.J17"The tune comparative list. One hundred and sixteen melodies of white people paired with same number of Negro-sung variants": p. [145]-227.
1359Johnson, James W., ed. The book of American Negro spirituals, edited with an introduction of James Weldon Johnson; musical arrangements by J. Rosamond Johnson, additional numbers by Lawrence Brown. New York, Viking Press, 1925. 187 p. M1670.J67
1360Johnson, James W., and John Rosamond Johnson, eds. The books of American Negro spirituals, including The book of American Negro spirituals and The second book of Negro spirituals. New York, Viking Press, 1940. 2 v. in 1. M1670.J67B65For voice and piano.A reissue of the volumes first published separately in 1925 and 1926. Each volume has special t.p.Musical arrangements by J. Rosamond Johnson, additional numbers by Lawrence Brown.
1361Jones, LeRoi. Black music. New York, W. Morrow, 1967. 221 p. illus. [ML3556.J728] [TR: ML3556.B15 1967 Baraka, Imamu Amiri]
1362Jones, LeRoi. Blues people; Negro music in white America. New York, W. Morrow, 1963. 244 p. [ML3556.J73] [TR: ML3556.B16 Baraka, Imamu Amiri]
1363Keil, Charles. Urban blues. Chicago, University of Chicago Press [1966] 231 p. ML3556.K43
1364Kirkeby, W. T. E., Duncan P. Schiedt, and Sinclair Traill. Ain't misbehavin'; the story of Fats Waller. New York, Dodd, Mead [1966] 248 p. ports. ML417.W15K6 1966a"The music of Thomas 'Fats' Waller; a selective discography compiled by the 'Storyville Team'": p. 233-248.
1365Krehbiel, Henry E. Afro-American folksongs; a study in racial and national music. New York, F. Ungar Pub. Co. [1962] 176 p. music. ML3556.K9 1962Reprint of the 1914 ed.
1366Locke, Alain L. The Negro and his music. Port Washington, N.Y., Kennikat Press [1968] 142 p. (Kennikat Press series in Negro culture and history) ML3556.L6N4 1968Reprint of the ed. first published in 1936."Reading references" at end of each chapter. "Record illustrations" at end of most of the chapters.
1367Lomax, John A., and Alan Lomax, eds. Negro folk songs as sung by Lead Belly, "king of the twelve-string guitar players of the world," long-time convict in the penitentiaries of Texas and Louisiana. New York, Macmillan Co., 1936. xiv, 242 p. port. ML1670.L84N4"The main body of the song-texts consists of transcriptions from records we made with an instantaneous aluminum recording machine, the property of the Archive of American Folk-song of the Library of Congress. This machine and these records were used through the courtesy of the Library of Congress. Dr. George Herzog transcribed the melodies, as herein printed, from these same discs."—Introduction, p. xiii.
1368Lucas, John. Basic jazz on long play. The great soloists: ragtime, folksong, blues, jazz, swing, and the great bands: New Orleans, swing, dixieland. Northfield, Minn., Carleton Jazz Club, Carleton College, 1954. 103 p. (Carleton College, Northfield, Minn. Carleton Jazz Club. Bulletin no. 1) ML3561.J3L78
1369Nathan, Hans. Dan Emmett and the rise of early Negro minstrelsy. Norman, University of Oklahoma Press [1962] xiv, 496 p. illus., facsims. ML410.E5N4Includes unaccompanied melodies."Bibliography of the works of D. D. Emmett": p. 290-306. "Anthology" (principally melodies with piano accompaniment): p. [311]-491.
1370Niles, John J. Singing soldiers. Illustrated by Margaret Thorniley Williamson. New introduction by Leslie Shepard. Detroit, Singing Tree Press, 1968. 171 p. illus. M1629.M675S45 1968First published in 1927 by C. Scribner's Sons, New York. "Now reissued."Contains both accompanied and unaccompanied melodies with words.
1371Odum, Howard W., and Guy B. Johnson. The Negro and his songs; a study of typical Negro songs in the South. Hatboro, Pa., Folklore Associates, 1964 [c1925] xix, 306 p. ML3556.O3 1964"Reprinted from the original ed. of 1925.""Select bibliography of Negro folk songs": p. [297]-300.
1372Patterson, Lindsay, comp. The Negro in music and art. New York, Publishers Co. [1967] xvi, 304 p. illus., facsims., ports. (International library of Negro life and history) ML3556.P38Published under the auspices of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History.Bibliography: p. [291]-296.
1373Ramsey, Frederic. Been here and gone. New Brunswick, N.J., Rutgers University Press [1960] 177 p. illus. ML3556.R3
1374Ramsey, Frederic, and Charles E. Smith, eds. Jazzmen. New York, Harcourt, Brace [1959, c1939] 360 p. illus. (A Harvest book, 30) ML3561.J3R3 1959
1375Scarborough, Dorothy. On the trail of Negro folk-songs, by Dorothy Scarborough, assisted by Ola Lee Gulledge. Foreword by Roger D. Abrahams. Hatboro, Pa., Folklore Associates, 1963. 295 p. music. ML3556.S3 1925a"Reprinted in facsimile from the original edition of 1925."
1376Shapiro, Nat, and Nat Hentoff, comps. Hear me talkin' to ya; the story of jazz as told by the men who made it. New York, Dover Publications [1966,c1955] xvi, 429 p. ML3561.J3S46 1966"This Dover edition is a reprint of the work originally published by Rinehart and Company, Inc., in 1955."
1377Talley, Thomas W., comp. Negro folk rhymes, wise and otherwise, with a study. Port Washington, N.Y., Kennikat Press [1968, c1922] 347 p. (Kennikat Press series in Negro culture and history) PS595.N3T3 1968Includes music (principally melodies with words).
1378Thurman, Howard. Deep river; reflections on the religious insight of certain of the Negro spirituals. Illustrated by Elizabeth Orton Jones. [Rev. and enl.] New York, Harper [1955] 93 p. illus. ML3556.T55 1955
1379Thurman, Howard. The Negro spiritual speaks of life and death. New York, Harper [1947] 55 p. (The Ingersoll lecture, Harvard University, 1947) ML3556.T56
1380Trotter, James M. Music and some highly musical people; containing brief chapters on I. A description of music. II. The music of nature. III. A glance at the history of music. IV. The power, beauty, and uses of music. Following which are given sketches of the lives of remarkable musicians of the colored race. With portraits, and an appendix containing copies of music composed by colored men. Boston, Lee and Shepard, 1878. 353, 152 p. ports. [ML60.T85] [TR: ML385.T76]Music: Appendix, p. 4-152.
1381Williams, Martin T. Jazz masters of New Orleans. New York, Macmillan Co. [1967] xvii, 287 p. ports. (The Macmillan jazz masters series) ML3561.J3W5315Bibliographies and discographies at ends of chapters.