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The book of Negro folklore / edited by Langston Hughes and Arna Bontemps.
Van Pelt - Class of 1979 Seminar Room (305) GR103 .H74
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967, editor.
- Series:
- Apollo editions ; A-228.
- Apollo editions ; A-228
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Folklore.
- African Americans.
- Genre:
- Folklore.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (bookplate) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 624 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
- Manufacture:
- Binghamton, NY : Vail-Ballou Press.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Dodd, Mead & Company, 1958.
- Summary:
- Comprehensive collection embracing the whole range of Negro folk expression.
- Contents:
- Animal tales
- Animal rhymes
- Memories of slavery
- Sometimes in the mind
- God, man and the devil
- Do you call that a preacher?
- Ghost stories
- Black magic and chance
- On the levee
- Amen corner
- Spirituals
- Gospel songs
- Pastime rhymes
- Ballads
- Blues
- Work songs
- Street cries
- Playsongs and games
- The jazz folk
- Harlem jive
- The "problem"
- Songs in the folk manner
- Poetry in the folk manner
- Prose in the folk manner.
- Notes:
- "©1958 by Langston Hughes and Arna Bontemps"--verso of title page.
- "Printed ... by Vail-Ballou Press, Inc., Binghamton, N. Y."--verso of title page
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy retains dust jacket. Has photocopy laid in.
- Banks Collection copy is third printing, 1965.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967. Book of Negro folklore.
- OCLC:
- 364242
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