On the trail of Negro folk-songs / by Dorothy Scarborough ; assisted by Ola Lee Gulledge.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scarborough, Dorothy, 1878-1935.

Contributor:

Gulledge, Ola Lee, 1888-1967.

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Music--History and criticism.

African Americans.

African Americans--Music.

Genre:

Music.

Penn Provenance:

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Satcher, Herbert Boyce, 1890- (autograph) (bookplate) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Scarborough, Dorothy, 1878-1935 (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Physical Description:

289 pages : music ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1925.

Summary:

Traces Negro folksongs back to their American beginnings. Dance songs, ballads, lullabies, work songs, and others are discussed.

Contents:

On the trail of Negro folk-songs

The Negro's part in transmitting the traditional songs and ballads

Negro ballads

Dance-songs, or "reels"

Children's game-songs

Lullabies

Songs about animals

Work-songs

Railroad songs

Blues.

Local Notes:

Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Schimmel Collection copy has bookplate ("From The Library of HERBERT BOYCE SATCHER") on front pastedown; autograph ("H.B. Satcher") on front free endpaper.

RBC copy has paper slip with ms. poem, "A Woman's Hair," signed by Dorothy Scarborough in Waco, Tex., on 1 June 1923 affixed to front pastedown; typescript transcription laid in.

RBC copy has newspaper clipping from an unidentified publication with review of this work by Alain Locke affixed to verso of half-title leaf; newspaper clipping from an unidentified publication with review of this work by Herschel Brickel affixed to verso of half-title leaf; newspaper clipping from an unidentified publication with obituary of the author (dated in ms. in pencil: 11/8/35) affixed to verso of dedication page.

OCLC:

16318990