Negro Folksong Scholarship in the United States
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https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v2i3.615Keywords:
African Americans -- Music -- Research, African Americans -- Folklore -- Research, African Americans -- Songs and music -- ResearchAbstract
The purpose of this article will be to serve as a bibliographical aid—to refer the reader to some of the standard reference works, bibliographies and finding aids, to name a few of the many collectors in this field, to cite some of the archives which contain pertinent material, and to list some of the more recent books and articles. Research on this subject will be surveyed under several subheadings (see below). These subheadings are chosen purely for the writer’s convenience, although at the same time they may be taken as indicating some of the related research fields which contribute to our understanding of the overall topic.References
Bartsch, Ernst 1956 Neger, Jazz und Tiefer Suden. Leipzig, F.A. Brockhaus.
Botkin, B.A. 1960 A Civil War Treasury of Tales, Legends and Folklore. New York, Random House.
1945 Lay My Burden Down. Chicago, University of Chicago Press.
1944 A Treasury of American Folklore. New York, Crown Publishers.
Brewer, John Mason 1958 Dog Ghosts, and Other Texas Negro Folk Tales. Austin, University of Texas Press.
1953 The Word on the Brazos. Austin, University of Texas Press.
Broonzy, William 1955 Big Bill Blues. London, Cassell and Co.
Charters, Samuel 1959 The Country Blues. New York, Rinehart.
Dauer, Alfons M. 1958 Der Jazz. Eisenach und Kassel, Erich Roth-Verlag.
Dorson, Richard M. 1959 American Folklore. Chicago, University of Chicago Press.
1956 Negro Folk Tales in Michigan. Cambridge, Harvard University Press.
Freedman, M. 1957 “Natural Jazz Rhythm in Folk Songs”. Southern Folklore Quarterly XXI, December: 194-205.
Green way, John 1953 American Folksongs of Protest. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press.
Grossman, William L. and Farrell, Jack W. 1956 The Heart of Jazz, New York, New York University Press.
Haywood, Charles 1951 A Bibliography of North American Folklore and Folksong. New York, Greenberg.
Hentoff, Nat and McCarthy, Albert J. (eds.) 1959 Jazz, New York, Rinehart.
Herskovitz, Melville J. 1958 The Myth of the Negro Past. Boston, Beacon Press.
Herzog, George 1936 “Research in Primitive and Folk Music in the United States”. American Council of Learned Societies. Bulletin No. 24, April
1936. Washington, D.C., American Council of Learned Societies.
Jackson, George Pullen 1944 White and Negro Spirituals. New York, J.J. Augustin.
Johnson, James W. and Johnson, J. Rosamond 1925 The Book of American Negro Spirituals. New York, Viking Press.
Jones, A.M. 1949 African Music in Northern Rhodesia and Some Other Places. Livingstone, Northern Rhodesia, Rhodes-Livingstone Museum.
Kunst, Jaap 1959 Ethnomusicology. The Hague, Nijhoff, Third Edition.
Lawless, Ray M. 1960 Folksingers and Folksongs in America. New York, Duell, Sloan and Pearce.
Laws, George Malcolm 1950 Native American Balladry. Philadelphia, American Folklore Society.
Lomax, Alan 1960 The Folk Songs of North America. London, Cassell.
1959 The Rainbow Sign. New York, Duell, Sloan and Pearce.
Lomax, John A. 1947 Adventures o f a Ballad Hunter. New York, MacMillan.
1935 American Ballads and Folk Songs. New York, MacMillan.
Longstreet, Stephen 1956 The Real Jazz, Old and New. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press.
Lumpkin, Ben Gray 1950 Folksongs on Records, Issue Three. Denver, Alan Swallow, Publisher.
Mattfeld, Julius 1925 The Folk Music of the Western Hemisphere. New York, New York Public Library.
Merriam, Alan 1960 “An Annotated Bibliography of Theses and Dissertations in Ethnomusicology and Folk Music Accepted at American Universities”. Ethnomusicology IV, 1: 21-39
1954 A Bibliography of Jazz Philadelphia, American Folklore Society.
Metfessel, Milton 1928 Phonophotography in Folk Music. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press.
Molin, Sven Eric 1958. “Lead Belly, Burl Ives and Sam Hinton”. Journal of American Folklore LXXI, 279: 58-79.
Myers, Kurtz 1954 Record Ratings. New York, Crown Publishers.
Nettl, Bruno 1960 An Introduction to Folk Music in the United States. Detroit, Wayne State University Press.
1956 Music in Primitive Culture. Cambridge, Harvard University Press.
Odum, Howard W. and Johnson, Guy B, 1925 The Negro and his Songs. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press.
Oliver, Paul 1960 Blues Fell This Morning. London, Cassell.
Reisner, Robert G. 1959 The Literature of Jazz, a Selective Bibliography. New York, New York Public Library.
Ramsey, Frederic Jr. 1960 Been Here and Gone. New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers University Press.
Sandburg, Carl 1927 The American Songbag. New York, Harcourt, Brace.
Schaeffner, Andre 1926 “Notes sur la musique des Afro-Americains” (a series of seven articles in consecutive issues of) Le Menestrel, 88e. Annee, No. 26, June 25: 285-7, No. 27, July 2: 297-300 . . . etc.
Seeger, Charles 1958 “Prescriptive and Descriptive Music-writing”. Musical Quarterly XLIV, 2 (April): 184-195.
1957 “Toward a Universal Music Sound-writing for Musicology”. Journal of the International Folk Music Council IX, 1957: 63-6.
Siegel, Bernard J. (ed) 1955 “Acculturation. Critical Abstracts, North America”. Stanford Anthropological Series, Number Two. Stanford, Stanford University Press.
Slotkin, J. S. 1943 “Jazz and its Forerunners as an Example of Acculturation”. American Sociological Review VIII, 5: 570-5.
Stearns, Marshall 1958 “Jazz versus Folk Music”. Saturday Review XLI, June 14: 50.
1956 The Story of Jazz. New York, Oxford University Press.
Tallman, Marjorie 1959 Dictionary of American Folklore. New York, Philosophical Library. Dictionary of American Folklore. New York, Philosophical Library.
Tax, Sol (ed.) 1952 “Acculturation in the Americas”. Proceedings and Selected Papers of the XXIXth International Congress of Americanists. Chicago, University of Chicago Press.
White, Newman I. 1928 American Negro Folk-Songs. Cambridge, Harvard University Press.
Wilgus, D.K. Anglo-American Folksong Scholarship since 1898. New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press.
Botkin, B.A. 1960 A Civil War Treasury of Tales, Legends and Folklore. New York, Random House.
1945 Lay My Burden Down. Chicago, University of Chicago Press.
1944 A Treasury of American Folklore. New York, Crown Publishers.
Brewer, John Mason 1958 Dog Ghosts, and Other Texas Negro Folk Tales. Austin, University of Texas Press.
1953 The Word on the Brazos. Austin, University of Texas Press.
Broonzy, William 1955 Big Bill Blues. London, Cassell and Co.
Charters, Samuel 1959 The Country Blues. New York, Rinehart.
Dauer, Alfons M. 1958 Der Jazz. Eisenach und Kassel, Erich Roth-Verlag.
Dorson, Richard M. 1959 American Folklore. Chicago, University of Chicago Press.
1956 Negro Folk Tales in Michigan. Cambridge, Harvard University Press.
Freedman, M. 1957 “Natural Jazz Rhythm in Folk Songs”. Southern Folklore Quarterly XXI, December: 194-205.
Green way, John 1953 American Folksongs of Protest. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press.
Grossman, William L. and Farrell, Jack W. 1956 The Heart of Jazz, New York, New York University Press.
Haywood, Charles 1951 A Bibliography of North American Folklore and Folksong. New York, Greenberg.
Hentoff, Nat and McCarthy, Albert J. (eds.) 1959 Jazz, New York, Rinehart.
Herskovitz, Melville J. 1958 The Myth of the Negro Past. Boston, Beacon Press.
Herzog, George 1936 “Research in Primitive and Folk Music in the United States”. American Council of Learned Societies. Bulletin No. 24, April
1936. Washington, D.C., American Council of Learned Societies.
Jackson, George Pullen 1944 White and Negro Spirituals. New York, J.J. Augustin.
Johnson, James W. and Johnson, J. Rosamond 1925 The Book of American Negro Spirituals. New York, Viking Press.
Jones, A.M. 1949 African Music in Northern Rhodesia and Some Other Places. Livingstone, Northern Rhodesia, Rhodes-Livingstone Museum.
Kunst, Jaap 1959 Ethnomusicology. The Hague, Nijhoff, Third Edition.
Lawless, Ray M. 1960 Folksingers and Folksongs in America. New York, Duell, Sloan and Pearce.
Laws, George Malcolm 1950 Native American Balladry. Philadelphia, American Folklore Society.
Lomax, Alan 1960 The Folk Songs of North America. London, Cassell.
1959 The Rainbow Sign. New York, Duell, Sloan and Pearce.
Lomax, John A. 1947 Adventures o f a Ballad Hunter. New York, MacMillan.
1935 American Ballads and Folk Songs. New York, MacMillan.
Longstreet, Stephen 1956 The Real Jazz, Old and New. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press.
Lumpkin, Ben Gray 1950 Folksongs on Records, Issue Three. Denver, Alan Swallow, Publisher.
Mattfeld, Julius 1925 The Folk Music of the Western Hemisphere. New York, New York Public Library.
Merriam, Alan 1960 “An Annotated Bibliography of Theses and Dissertations in Ethnomusicology and Folk Music Accepted at American Universities”. Ethnomusicology IV, 1: 21-39
1954 A Bibliography of Jazz Philadelphia, American Folklore Society.
Metfessel, Milton 1928 Phonophotography in Folk Music. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press.
Molin, Sven Eric 1958. “Lead Belly, Burl Ives and Sam Hinton”. Journal of American Folklore LXXI, 279: 58-79.
Myers, Kurtz 1954 Record Ratings. New York, Crown Publishers.
Nettl, Bruno 1960 An Introduction to Folk Music in the United States. Detroit, Wayne State University Press.
1956 Music in Primitive Culture. Cambridge, Harvard University Press.
Odum, Howard W. and Johnson, Guy B, 1925 The Negro and his Songs. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press.
Oliver, Paul 1960 Blues Fell This Morning. London, Cassell.
Reisner, Robert G. 1959 The Literature of Jazz, a Selective Bibliography. New York, New York Public Library.
Ramsey, Frederic Jr. 1960 Been Here and Gone. New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers University Press.
Sandburg, Carl 1927 The American Songbag. New York, Harcourt, Brace.
Schaeffner, Andre 1926 “Notes sur la musique des Afro-Americains” (a series of seven articles in consecutive issues of) Le Menestrel, 88e. Annee, No. 26, June 25: 285-7, No. 27, July 2: 297-300 . . . etc.
Seeger, Charles 1958 “Prescriptive and Descriptive Music-writing”. Musical Quarterly XLIV, 2 (April): 184-195.
1957 “Toward a Universal Music Sound-writing for Musicology”. Journal of the International Folk Music Council IX, 1957: 63-6.
Siegel, Bernard J. (ed) 1955 “Acculturation. Critical Abstracts, North America”. Stanford Anthropological Series, Number Two. Stanford, Stanford University Press.
Slotkin, J. S. 1943 “Jazz and its Forerunners as an Example of Acculturation”. American Sociological Review VIII, 5: 570-5.
Stearns, Marshall 1958 “Jazz versus Folk Music”. Saturday Review XLI, June 14: 50.
1956 The Story of Jazz. New York, Oxford University Press.
Tallman, Marjorie 1959 Dictionary of American Folklore. New York, Philosophical Library. Dictionary of American Folklore. New York, Philosophical Library.
Tax, Sol (ed.) 1952 “Acculturation in the Americas”. Proceedings and Selected Papers of the XXIXth International Congress of Americanists. Chicago, University of Chicago Press.
White, Newman I. 1928 American Negro Folk-Songs. Cambridge, Harvard University Press.
Wilgus, D.K. Anglo-American Folksong Scholarship since 1898. New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press.
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Thieme, Darius L. 1960. “Negro Folksong Scholarship in the United States”. African Music : Journal of the International Library of African Music 2 (3):67-72. https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v2i3.615.
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