Spiritual Folk-Songs Of Early America. Two Hundred And Fifty Tunes And Texts, With An Introduction And Notes

JACKSON, GEORGE PULLEN [COLLECTED AND EDITED BY]

Publication: J J Augustin Publisher, 1937, New York

First edition. 8vo. Inscribed in ink on the front free fly leaf: "To Mrs. ---- ---, George Pullen Jackson, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, January 21, 1938." Orange cloth, titles stamped in white on the front cover and spine, x [2], 254 pp., frontispiece, preface, introduction, acknowledgements, illustrated, bibliography, list of abbreviations of titles, index of songs by titles, index of first lines of texts. Provides two hundred and fifty tunes and texts for spiritual folk songs of early America, broken down to fifty-one religious ballads, ninety-eight folk hymns, and one hundred and one revival spiritual songs.

Inventory Number: 48547