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The Negro singer's own book : containing every Negro song that has ever been sung or printed.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PS595.N3 N4 1846
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Music.
- African Americans.
- Genre:
- Songsters.
- Physical Description:
- 448 p. : ill. ; 13 cm.
- Other Title:
- Popular negro songs
- Popular songs
- Nigga songs
- Nigga singers own book
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia ; New York : Turner & Fisher, [1846?]
- Notes:
- Imprint date from Work.
- Without music; some of the tunes indicated by title.
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Hilda A. Wurtman Memorial Fund.
- RBC copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2017 from Christopher Edwards Antiquarian Books & Manuscripts.
- RBC copy: frontispiece torn and mended on verso.
- Cited in:
- Work, M.N. Bibliography of the Negro in Africa and America, p. 434
- OCLC:
- 9035856
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