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As any well-organized, carefully annotated bibliography does, this work by Southern and Wright brings order out of chaos... This useful bibliography is recommended for libraries on all campuses where there is an interest in the black experience. Choice

Table of Contents

Preface
Guide to Use of the Bibliography
Introduction
The Colonial-Federalist Era
The Antebellum Era
The Post-Emancipation Era
The WPA Slave Narrative Collection
The Early Twentieth Century
Bibliography
Index of Names
Index of Subjects
Index of Songs

About the Author

EILEEN SOUTHERN is Professor Emerita of Music and Afro-American Studies at Harvard University and Editor/Co-publisher of The Black Perspective in Music. She has contributed articles to Journal of American Musicology, Acta Musicologica, American Music, and several other scholarly journals. She has also served as an area editor of and contributor to The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Her book publications include The Buxheim Organ Book, The Music of Black Americans: A History, and Biographical Dictionary of Afro-American and African Musicians.

JOSEPHINE WRIGHT is Professor of Music at the College of Wooster. She has published articles in The Musical Quarterly, The Black Perspective in Music, Women's Studies Quarterly, and The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. She is the author of Ignatius Sancho: Early African Composer. Southern and Wright are preparing a companion volume to the present work offering a pictorial record of Afro-American tradition (Greenwood Press, forthcoming).

Reviews

?As any well-organized, carefully annotated bibliography does, this work by Southern (Harvard, emerita) and Wright (College of Wooster) brings order out of chaos. The 2,328 entries identify books, articles, sermons, pamphlets, and broadsides, among other formats, all centered on black folk culture with emphasis on the manifestations of that culture from 1600 to 1920 through song, dance, games, sermons, and illustrations. A volume in the "Greenwood Encyclopedia of Black Music," the book is organized chronologically into four major sections and then subdivided into publications grouped around the topics "Social Activities," "Religious Experience," "The Song," and "The Tale." The annotations not only describe the item listed but provide a note to indicate whether it includes the text of a particular song, sermon, or game. As a supplement to the enumeration of textual sources the compilers have supplied an extensive and unique annotated listing of iconographic materials--drawings, paintings, sketches, and photographs that illustrate the various facets of black folk culture. Indexes supply access by author, subject, illustrator, and first line of both chorus and verse of songs. The text is presented in camera-ready copy. This carefully done and useful bibliography is recommended for libraries on all campuses where there is an interest in the black experience.?-Choice

"As any well-organized, carefully annotated bibliography does, this work by Southern (Harvard, emerita) and Wright (College of Wooster) brings order out of chaos. The 2,328 entries identify books, articles, sermons, pamphlets, and broadsides, among other formats, all centered on black folk culture with emphasis on the manifestations of that culture from 1600 to 1920 through song, dance, games, sermons, and illustrations. A volume in the "Greenwood Encyclopedia of Black Music," the book is organized chronologically into four major sections and then subdivided into publications grouped around the topics "Social Activities," "Religious Experience," "The Song," and "The Tale." The annotations not only describe the item listed but provide a note to indicate whether it includes the text of a particular song, sermon, or game. As a supplement to the enumeration of textual sources the compilers have supplied an extensive and unique annotated listing of iconographic materials--drawings, paintings, sketches, and photographs that illustrate the various facets of black folk culture. Indexes supply access by author, subject, illustrator, and first line of both chorus and verse of songs. The text is presented in camera-ready copy. This carefully done and useful bibliography is recommended for libraries on all campuses where there is an interest in the black experience."-Choice