Hush, child! can't you hear the music? / collected by Rose Thompson ; edited by Charles Beaumont ; foreword by John Stewart.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Thompson, Rose, collector.

Beaumont, Charles Allen, editor.

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Farm Security Administration.

United States.

African Americans--Georgia--Folklore.

African Americans.

Georgia--Social life and customs.

Georgia.

Manners and customs.

Genre:

Folklore.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxxiii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 93 pages, 1 unnumbered page : music, photographs ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Athens : The University of Georgia Press, 1999.

Summary:

Hush, Child! Can't You Hear the Music? is a remarkable collection of black folktales and photographs from rural Georgia. During the 1930s and 1940s Rose Thompson worked as a home supervisor with the Farm Security Administration in middle Georgia. While she worked with farmers and their wives -- teaching them to put up preserves, make cotton mattresses, and build chick brooders -- she listened to the stories they told. Reading Hush, Child! Can't You Hear the Music? is like an afternoon spent reminiscing on the front porch. The book is illustrated with photographs taken by Thompson and WPA photographer Jack Delano.

Contents:

The Devil

Fiddlers Mountain

Rabbit Dance

Cats Toting a Cat

Aunt Tucky-de-Dandy

Old Lady Mary and the Heifer Shoes

That Grayland Road

Liddy Purify's Cat

Old Man John's Place

Grandma's Ground Pea Patch

Everybody Knew Aunt Dilsey

I Was a Mighty Dancer

The Lord Sets High

Ring the Charming Bells

Old Hy-Ty

City Setting on a Hill

The Two Spirits

Key to Glory

Dark Day

Us All Got to Go

Band of Angels

Cows, They Pray

Rest On, Sis Sarah

An' She Didn't Get Tired

Sound the Trumpet.

Notes:

"A Brown Thrasher original."

"University of Georgia Press paperback edition 1999."

"Set in 12 on 14 point Cheltenham. Designed by Sandra Strother Hudson."

"Nearly all the photographs in this book were taken in Greene County, Georgia, in the late 1930s and early 1940s. Most of them were taken by Rose Thompson. Those on pages xxi, xxiv=xxv, xxiv-1, 30-31m 56-57, and 93 were taken by Jack Delano, a Farm Security Administration photographer."

"Cover design by Erin Kirk New."

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

ISBN:

0820321370

9780820321370

082030588X

9780820305882

OCLC:

41247535