The book of Negro folklore

The book of Negro folklore /

Comprehensive collection embracing the whole range of Negro folk expression.

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Other Authors: Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967 (Editor), Bontemps, Arna, 1902-1973 (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Dodd, Mead & Company, 1958
Subjects:
African Americans > Folklore.
Electronic books.
Table of Contents:
  • Animal tales
  • Animal rhymes
  • Memories of slavery
  • Sometimes in the mind
  • God, man and the devil
  • Do you call that a preacher?
  • Ghost stories
  • Black magic and chance
  • On the levee
  • Amen corner
  • Spirituals
  • Gospel songs
  • Pastime rhymes
  • Ballads
  • Blues
  • Work songs
  • Street cries
  • Playsongs and games
  • The jazz folk
  • Harlem jive
  • The "problem"
  • Songs in the folk manner
  • Poetry in the folk manner
  • Prose in the folk manner.

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