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African Americans -- Songs and music

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• Uncle Remus : his songs and his sayings (D. Appleton, 1928), by Joel Chandler Harris and A. B. Frost (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mellows, a chronicle of unknown singers (A. and C. Boni, 1925), by R. Emmet Kennedy (page images at HathiTrust)
• My old Kentucky home (Ticknor and Company, 1888), by Stephen Collins Foster, A. V. S. Anthony, Charles Copeland, and Mary Hallock Foote (page images at HathiTrust)
• By-ways of nature and life (G. P. Putnam's sons, 1884), by Clarence Deming (page images at HathiTrust)
• Swanee River (Ticknor and Co., 1888), by Stephen Collins Foster, A. V. S. Anthony, and Charles Copeland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old-time nigger songs (F. McGlennon, 1900) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Oh, didn't it rain low [voice] (G. Ricordi, 1919), by H. T. Burleigh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Album of Negro spirituals (G. Ricordi, 1917), by H. T. Burleigh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Negro folk singing games and folk games of the habitants (J. Curwen & Sons, Ltd., 1914), by Grace Cleveland Porter and Harvey Worthington Loomis (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The story of the Jubilee Singers with their songs. (London : Hodder and Stoughton, 27, Paternoster Row, MDCCCLXXVI [1876], 1876), by J. B. T. Marsh, Gresham Press, and Hodder and Stoughton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reminiscences of Isaac and Sukey, slaves of B.F. Moore, of Raleigh, N.C. (Edwards and Broughton, 1907), by L. C. Capehart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Who's dat peepin' at me (Leo Feist, 1903), by Mabel McKinley (page images at HathiTrust)
• I don't know who wrote "Home, sweet home" but he must have been a single man (Jerome H. Remick & Co., 1908), by Clare Beecher Kummer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Hot Dogs' fancy ball. (New York : M. Witmark & Sons, [1916], 1916), by Muriel Pollock and Louis Weslyn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Little Alabama coon (New York : Edw. B. Marks Music Co., [1921], 1921), by Hattie Starr (page images at HathiTrust)
• Does you love me, honey? (New York : North American Music Co., [1906], 1906), by Luella Trapp (page images at HathiTrust)
• Uncle Remus: his songs and his sayings. (Hawthorn Books, 1970), by Joel Chandler Harris and Authur Burdett Frost (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Jubilee singers, and their campaign for twenty thousand dollars. (Boston : Lee and Shepard ; New York : Lee, Shepard and Dillingham, 1873., 1873), by Gustavus D. Pike and Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old folks at home : "Way down upon de Swanee Ribber" (Joseph Knight Company, 1887), by Stephen Collins Foster, A. V. S. Anthony, and Charles Copeland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Coffee in the gourd (Texas Folk-lore Society, 1923), by J. Frank Dobie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sister Norf and Sister Souff (Firth, Pond & Co., 1862), by Gustave Geary, Charles O. Clayton, Henry Wood, and Wood's Minstrels (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old black Joe : song & chorus (Wm. A. Pond & Co., 1860), by Stephen Collins Foster and Dan Bryant (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some white folks have been heard to say (H.N. Hempsted, 1863), by Frank Howard and Wood's Minstrels (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nelly Bly (Boston : Oliver Ditson & Co., [1863], 1863), by Stephen Collins Foster and G. F. H. Laurence (page images at HathiTrust)
• O Nancy Fat she was a gal fair and tall and slender (547 Broadway, New York : Published by Wm. A. Pond & Co. ; Boston : O. Ditson & Co. ; Milwaukee : H. N. Hempsted ; Chicago : Root & Cady ; Pittsburg : H. Kleber & Bro., [1864], 1864), by T. McNally, C. Glover, Dave Reed, and Manufacturing & Lithographic Co Major & Knapp Engraving (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lubly Fan will you cum out to night? (Keith's Music Publishing House, 1844), by Cool White, J. P. Carter, and Virginia Serenaders (page images at HathiTrust)
• They tell me that I am now free (Horace Waters, 1866), by M. B. Ladd and E. A. Parkhurst (page images at HathiTrust)
• No slave beneath that starry flag (Horace Waters ;, 1864), by E. A. Parkhurst and George Lansing Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Come back Massa, come back! (Wm. Hall & Son, 1863), by Gómez, C. Henry, and I. W. Lucas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Freedman's, or, Negro boatman's song (Firth, Pond & Co., 1862), by Robert Goldbeck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Look out keep talkin' (Whitney-Warner Pub. Co., 1899), by Fred S. Stone (page images at HathiTrust)
• I'm going away and I'm feeling mighty glad (G. W. Setchell, 1907), by Chris Smith, John Frew, and Billy Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• A coon band contest : cake walk two step (The Bell Music Co., 1899), by Arthur Pryor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Does you love me as you used to, Miss Jane? (Harry Von Tilzer Music Pub. Co., 1904), by Chris Smith, Chas. Hart, and Dan Avery (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bunch o' blackberries : cake-walk & two-step (Feist & Frankenthaler, 1899), by Abe Holzmann and Feist & Frankenthaler (page images at HathiTrust)
• A band contest which was pulled off way down South (Hearst's Chicago American, in the 20th century), by Arthur Pryor (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Two mysterious, black mysterious, birds just flew to town (Milton Weil Music, 1927), by Harry Harris, Beilin, Rube Bennett, and Haven Gillespie (page images at HathiTrust)
• O come to de husking (Oliver Ditson ;, 1848), by Frank Spencer, Oliver Ditson, United States Massachusetts Boston, Pond & Co Firth, and Christy Minstrels (page images at HathiTrust)
• Uncle Remus his songs and his sayings : the folk-lore of the old plantation (New York : D. Appleton and Company, 1881., 1881), by Joel Chandler Harris, James Henry Moser, Frederick S. Church, and D. Appleton and Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Don't you grieve after me : song and chorus (Geo. D. Newhall & Co., 1880), by Len Fairfield (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rise, my brothers, rise! : end song with chorus (John F. Perry & Co., 1880), by Fred Lyons (page images at HathiTrust)
• De gospel cars (G.D. Russell, 1880), by Sam Lucas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wait, my children, wait! : song and chorus (John Church & Co., 1880), by Chas. R. De Kress and John Church Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• I hear dem angels a callin' loud (Geo. D. Newhall & Co., 1878), by Will. S. Hays and E. D. Grafton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Slave songs of the United States. (A. Simpson & Co., 1867), by William Francis Allen, Lucy McKim Garrison, Charles Pickard Ware, and A. Simpson & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• De gospel fair : camp meeting melody and jubilee dance (Howley, Haviland & Co., 1895), by J. E. Nicol and J. P. MacSweeny (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selections of plantation songs : as sung by Donavin's "famous" Tennesseeans. (Evans Gas Print, 1884), by J. W. Donavin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Book of popular songs : being a compendium of the best sentimental, comic, Negro, Irish, Scotch, national, patriotic, military, naval, social, convivial and pathetic songs, ballads and melodies ... (Philadelphia : G.G.Evans, 1861., 1861), by Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Story of the Jubilee Singers : [with their songs] (Cleveland : Cleveland Printing & Publishing Co., 1892., 1892), by J. B. T. Marsh, F. J. Loudin, and Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hampton and its students (New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1874., 1874), by M. F. Armstrong, Thomas P. Fenner, Helen W. Ludlow, and Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Negro folk-songs (G. Schirmer, 1918), by Natalie Curtis Burlin, Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary), and Hampton Institute (page images at HathiTrust)
• Collection of revival hymns and plantation melodies (Cincinnati : Marshall W. Taylor and W.C. Echols, 1883., 1883), by Marshall W. Taylor and Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Free soil minstrel. (New York : Martyn & Ely, 1848., 1848), by George W. Clark, Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary), and Free Soil Party (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Singing campaign for ten thousand pounds : or, The Jubilee Singers in Great Britain ; with an appendix containing slave songs (New York : American Missionary Association, 1875., 1875), by Gustavus D. Pike and Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Folk song of the American Negro (Nashville : Press of Fisk University, 1915., 1915), by John W. Work and Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Negro Folk Rhymes: Wise and Otherwise: With a Study, by Thomas Washington Talley (Gutenberg ebook)
• Uncle Remus, his songs and his sayings, by Joel Chandler Harris (Gutenberg ebook)
• You'll git dar in de mornin', by H. T. Burleigh and Frank Lebby Stanton (Gutenberg ebook)

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