Performing Arts

Slave Songs

– – – Books – – –

Allen, William Francis, Charles Pickard Ware, and Lucy McKim Garrison.  Slave songs of the United States. (New York: A. Simpson & Co., 1867).

Nicole Beaulieu Herder and Ronald Herder. Best-Loved Negro Spirituals: Complete Lyrics to 178 Songs of Faith. (Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications, 2001).

Lydia Parrish. Slave Songs of the Georgia Sea Islands. (Athens: University of Georgia Press. 1992). 

“The Spirituals and the Blues Negro Slave Songs in the United States,” Black World/Negro Digest, February 1975, Vol. XXVI, No.4,  pgs. 93- 94.

 

– – – Websites – – –

HISTORY DETECTIVES | Slave Songbook

Slave Songs of the United States – Wikipedia

Songs of the Underground Railroad – Wikipedia

 

– – – Videos – – –

Former slaves in Alabama in 1936-1937 with slave song “waitin on you – [Min: 1:58]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOOWcnOrqaA

“Rosie” (African American Work Song) – Production Version – [Min: 2:45]

Wade in the water – Ella Jenkins – [Min: 4:00]

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