Slave Songs of the United States

Slave Songs of the United States

"Slave Songs of the United States" was a collection of African American music, published in 1867. It was the first, and most influential, [Darden, pg. 71] [Southern, pg. 152] collection of spirituals to be published; the collectors were Northern abolitionists, William Francis Allen, Lucy McKim Garrison and Charles Pickard Ware. [Crawford, pg. 416] It is a "milestone not just in African American music but in modern folk history". [Darden, pgs. 99-100] Cite book|title=The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music|chapter=Overview|last=Maultsby|first=Portia K.|coauthors=Mellonee V. Burnin and Susan Oehler|pages=572-591] [cite journal|title=Cosmopolitan or Provincial?: Ideology in Early Black Music Historiography, 1867-1940|first=Guthrie P.|last=Ramsey, Jr.|journal=Black Music Research Journal|volume=16|issue=1|month=Spring,|year=1996|pages=11-42|url=http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0276-3605%28199621%2916%3A1%3C11%3ACOPIIE%3E2.0.CO%3B2-V|accessdate=February 17|accessyear=2008] [Snell and Kelley, pg. 22] It is also the first published collection of African American music of any kind. [Chase, pg. 215]

References

* cite book
author = Chase, Gilbert
id = ISBN 0-252-00454-X
publisher = University of Illinois Press
title = America's Music: From the Pilgrims to the Present
year = 2000

*cite book
author = Crawford, Richard
id = ISBN 0-393-04810-1
publisher = W. W. Norton & Company
title = America's Musical Life: A History
year = 2001

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* cite book
last = Koskoff
first = Ellen (ed.)
id = ISBN 0-8240-4944-6
publisher = Garland Publishing
title = Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, Volume 3: The United States and Canada
year = 2000

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External link

* [http://books.google.com/books?id=LHktAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=slave+songs+of+the+united+states&client=safari Full text on GoogleBooks]


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