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Negro Workaday Songs

by Odum & Johnson

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  1. 1Preface
  2. 2Chapter I — Background Resources in Negro Song and Work
  3. 3Chapter II — The Blues: Workaday Sorrow Songs
  4. 4Chapter III — Songs of the Lonesome Road
  5. 5Chapter IV — Bad Man Ballads and Jamboree
  6. 6Chapter V — Songs of Jail, Chain Gang, and Policemen
  7. 7Chapter VI — Songs of Construction Camps and Gangs
  8. 8Chapter VII — Just Songs to Help With Work
  9. 9Chapter VIII — Man’s Song of Woman
  10. 10Chapter IX — Woman’s Song of Man
  11. 11Chapter X — Folk Minstrel Types
  12. 12Chapter XI — Workaday Religious Songs
  13. 13Chapter XII — The Annals and Blues of Left Wing Gordon
  14. 14Chapter XIII — John Henry: Epic of the Negro Workingman
  15. 15Chapter XIV — Some Typical Negro Tunes
  16. 16Chapter XV — Types of Phono-Photographic Records of Negro Singers
  17. 17Selected Bibliography

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