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The African heritage. From The golden trade / Richard Jobson -- From Travels in the interior districts of Africa / Mungo Park -- From Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee / Thomas Edward Bowdich -- Black singers and instrumentalists of early America. From Letters from the Rev. Samuel Davies and others / Samuel Davies and others -- Slave advertisements / eighteenth-century newspapers -- From Reminiscences of Newport / George Champlain Mason -- Slave holidays and festivals. Pinkster festivities in Albany / James Eights -- From Hartford in the olden time / Isaac W. Stuart -- From Journal of Latrobe / Benjamin Henry B. Latrobe -- Religious music in the nineteenth century. From A collection of hymns and spiritual songs / Richard Allen -- From Methodist error / John F. Watson -- From Recollections of seventy years / Daniel Alexander Payne -- Music on the plantation. From The old plantation / James Hungerford -- From My bondage and my freedom / Frederick Douglass -- From Six years in a Georgia prison / Lewis W. Paine -- From Twelve years a slave / Solomon Northup -- From Homes of the New World / Fredrika Bremer -- From the slave narrative collection -- Music in the cities in the nineteenth century. From The hermit in America / Robert Waln (Peter Atall) -- From Richmond in by-gone days / Samuel Mordecai -- From New York by gas light / George G. Foster -- From Music and some highly musical people / James M. Trotter -- General characteristics of slave music. From Slave songs of the United States / William Francis Allen -- From Army life in a black regiment / Thomas W. Higginson -- From The souls of Black folk / W.E.B. DuBois -- The music of a free people. The heart of the blues from Father of the blues / William Christopher Handy -- Clorindy, the origin of the cakewalk / Will Marion Cook -- A Negro explains "Jazz" / James Reese Europe -- From From Harlem to the Rhine / Arthur Little -- From His eye is on the sparrow / Ethel Waters -- The jazz avant-garde / Imamu Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) -- From Movin' on up / Mahalia Jackson -- Notes on the Negro spiritual / Hall Johnson -- The structure of music / William Grant Still -- From Black composers and the avant-garde / Thomas Jefferson Anderson -- Here I stand / Hale Smith-- Does a Black Mozart, or Stravinsky, wait in the wings? (Black art music) -- Music mailbag: of Black art music / Carman Moore. |
