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(MUSIC.) ALLEN, WILLIAM FRANCIS, Co-Compiler. Slave Songs of the United States. 44 pages of text, followed by 113 pages of printed music. Tall 8vo, original brick-red cloth with some slight wear to the extremities; an ex-library copy with the usual stamps and signs of removal of a card pocket on the rear paste-down.
first edition of the first attempt to set down the music of african-american slaves. Allen, Charles Pickard Ware and and Lucy McKim Garrison, niece of Wiliam Lloyd Garrison literally took live music "dictation" from slaves in the fields, churches, etc. to make this compilation. It remains the best original resource for an accurate idea of what the music of the African-American slave sounded like.
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