| Item Description: | "The main body of the song-texts consists of transcriptions from records we made with an instantaneous aluminum recording machine, the property of the Archive of America Folk-Song of the Library of Congress. This machine and these records were used through the courtesy of the Library of Congress. Dr. George Herzog transcribed the melodies, as herein printed, from these same discs."--Introd., p. xiii. The Cushing Library/Area Studies/Africana copy contains the bookseller's description. |