2014 Reprint of 1926 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. "Negro Workaday Songs" is the third volume of a series of folk background studies of which "The Negro and His Song" was the first and "Folk-Beliefs of the Southern Negro" was the second. So far as Odum was aware, none of the songs in this collection had been published and the songs were all sung or repeated by actual Black workers or singers and much of their value lies in the exact transcription of ...
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2014 Reprint of 1926 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. "Negro Workaday Songs" is the third volume of a series of folk background studies of which "The Negro and His Song" was the first and "Folk-Beliefs of the Southern Negro" was the second. So far as Odum was aware, none of the songs in this collection had been published and the songs were all sung or repeated by actual Black workers or singers and much of their value lies in the exact transcription of natural lines, words and mixtures. Odum intended his study of Black music as a series of pictures of the Black American as portrayed through his workaday songs. He has taken the position that these workaday songs, crude and fragmentary, and often having only local or individual significance, provide a more accurate picture of Negro working life than do conventional folk songs. Odum's book is also an important contribution to the history of the blues in America and a collector's item in that field.
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Add this copy of Negro Workaday Songs (University of North Carolina to cart. $20.00, fair condition, Sold by Sequitur Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Boonsboro, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1926 by University of North Carolina Press.
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Fair. Size: 0x0x0; Octavo. xiii, 278 pp. Original black cloth. Spine taped. Library markings. Rear hinge cracked, glued. Occasional soiling, scattered pen underlining. "It is a day of great promise in the United States when both races, North and South, enter upon a new era of the rediscovery of the Negro and face the future with an enthusiasm for facts, concerning both the newer creative urge and the earlier background sources."
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Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 278pp. Black cloth gilt. Small, light pencil name front fly, a few pencil notations of lyrics on rear flyleaf in an unknown hand, boards slightly bumped and rubbed, very good lacking the dust jacket. Important scholarly attempt to examine Black life in the South in the context of work songs, as distinct from spirituals, including the blues, jail, chain gang and police songs, minstrel types, epics such as John Henry, etc.
