Slave Songs Of The United States (Dover Books on Music: Folk Songs) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0486285731 ISBN 13: 9780486285733

Publisher: Dover Publications Inc., 1995

Synopsis

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Series: Dover Edition.

Category: Song Folio.

Format: Book.

Instrument: Voice.

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About this title

About the Author:

William Francis Allen, the chief editor and author of the introduction to Slave Songs of the United States, was born in Massachusetts in 1830, studied at Harvard and in Europe, worked for the Freedmen's Aid Commission on St. Helena Island, South Carolina, during the Civil War, and after the war became chair of ancient languages at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.|Like his cousin William Francis Allen, Charles Pickard Ware took part in wartime educational initiatives in the Sea Islands of South Carolina; more of the transcriptions in the volume are Ware's than any other editor's.|0

From the Back Cover:

Originally published in 1867, this book is a collection of songs of African-American slaves. A few of the songs were written after the emancipation, but all were inspired by slavery. The wild, sad strains tell, as the sufferers themselves could, of crushed hopes, keen sorrow, and a dull, daily misery, which covered them as hopelessly as the fog from the rice swamps. On the other hand, the words breathe a trusting faith in the life after, to which their eyes seem constantly turned.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dover Publications Inc.
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0486285731
• ISBN 13: 9780486285733
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176
• Editor: Allen William Francis, Etc.