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Folk music and song in the WPA ex-slave narratives /

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"Between 1937 and 1940 fieldworkers in the Works Progress Administration's Federal Writers' Project interviewed around 3,500 formerly enslaved people in North America, resulting in roughly 20,000 pages of still unedited and inadequately indexed typescript. These accounts-the WPA ex-sl...

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Main Author: Minton, John, 1957- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2024]
Series:American made music series.
Subjects:
Enslaved persons > United States > Songs and music > History and criticism.
Slavery > United States > Songs and music > History and criticism.
African Americans > Music > History and criticism.
Spirituals (Songs) > United States > History and criticism.
Folk music > United States > History and criticism.
Folk songs, English > United States > History and criticism.
Slave narratives > United States.
Enslaved persons > United States > Folklore.
Esclavage > États-Unis > Chants et musique > Histoire et critique.
Negro spirituals > États-Unis > Histoire et critique.
Musique folklorique > États-Unis > Histoire et critique.
Récits d'esclaves > États-Unis.
MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Folk & Traditional.

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