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This book is more detailed and focused
than the two below and deals with the
commercial development of rural-based
music in later chapters.
Music in the New World, Charles
Hamm, W.W. Norton, 1982
This book’s subject is virtually all
music styles in the United States; it
includes several chapters on traditional
folk music. It is a companion to an
excellent 100-volume recorded survey
of all types of American music: A
Recorded Anthology of American
Music (New World Records, 231 E. 51
St., NY, NY 10022). This anthology is
available for reference at most large
urban or university music libraries and
is available for purchase. Each record
has good annotation.
Folk Songs of North America, Alan
Lomax, Doubleday, 1960
This wide-ranging collection
includes 300 songs with comments by
collector and folklorist Lomax.
Folklife and Fieldwork, A Layman’s
Introduction to Field Techniques,
Peter Bartis, American Folklife
Center, Library of Congress,
Washington, DC 20540, 1979
This excellent booklet is an aid to
the field collector at any level and is
available free from the above address.
Films and Videotapes
A nearly complete list of folklife
films, American Folk Films and
Videotapes: An Index, is available from
the Center for Southern Folklore, 1216
Peabody Ave., P.O. Box 40105,
Memphis, TN 38104.
A regional film co-op in Kentucky
has produced a number of films of
Appalachian folklife. Contact
Appalshop Films, Box 743,
Whitesburg, KY 41858.
If you need further information on
any aspect of folklife, you may write
the American Folklife Center, Library
of Congress, Washington, DC 20540
or the Archive of American Folk Song,
Recorded Sound Section, Music
Division, Library of Congress, Washington,
DC 20540.
The African-American Experience
Suggestions provided by Sparky
and Rhonda Rucker
“The Gospel Train”
Aptheker, Herbert, American Negro
Slave Revolts. New York: International
Publishers, 1963, 1969, 1974.
Douglass, Frederick, Life and Times of
Frederick Douglass. New York:
Collier Books, 1962. (Reprinted
from the revised edition of 1892.)
____ My Bondage and My Freedom.
New York: Dover Publications,
1969. (1855 edition.)
Heidish, Marcy, A Woman Called
Moses: A Novel Based on the Life of
Harriet Tubman. New York: Bantam
Books, 1976.
Krass, Peter, Sojourner Truth: Antislavery
Activist. New York: Chelsea
House Publishers, 1988.
Quarles, Benjamin, Black Abolitionists.
New York: Da Capo Press, 1969.
Strother, Horatio T., The Underground
Railroad in Connecticut.
Middletown: Wesleyan University
Press, 1962.
Styron, William, The Confessions of
Nat Turner. New York: Random
House, 1966, 1967.
For high school ages:
Petry, Ann, Harriet Tubman: Conductor
on the Underground Railroad.
New York: Pocket Books (Archway),
1955.
For younger readers:
Canon, Jill, Civil War Heroines. Santa
Barbara: Bellerophon Books, 1989.
Hamilton, Virginia, The People Could
Fly: American Black Folktales. New
York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985.
Levine, Ellen, If You Traveled on the
Underground Railroad. New York:
Scholastic, Inc., 1988.
Santrey, Laurence, Young Frederick
Douglass: Fight for Freedom.
Mahway: Troll Associates, 1983.
“Oh, Susannah”
Epstein, Dena J., Sinful Tunes and
Spirituals. Urbana and Chicago, IL:
University of Illinois Press, 1977.
Marcos, How To Play Harmonica …
Instantly. Harp’n Music Publishing
Company, 1985.
Toll, Robert C., Blacking Up: The
Minstrel Show in Nineteenth-
Century America. New York:
Oxford University Press, Inc., 1974.
“Freight Train”
For younger readers:
Scharff, Robert, The How and Why
Wonderbook of Trains and Railroads.
New York: Grosset &
Dunlap, 1964, 1971.
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