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  • Negro folk songs ...

    • Text
    • [Hampton, Virginia, The Press of the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, 1912]
    • 1912-1912
  • Take this hammer [sound recording] / Leadbelly.

    • Audio
    • New York City : Folkways Records, 1968.
    • 1968
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LZR 26718 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Songs sung by the famous Canadian Jubilee Singers, the Royal Paragon Male Quartette and Imperial orchestra [microform] : five years' tour of Great Britain, three years' tour of United States.

    • Text
    • Hamilton, Ont. : Duncan Lith. Co., [1898 or 1899?]
    • 1898-1899
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc Micro R-5248Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Chain gang. vol. I-II [sound recording] / sung & played by Woody Guthrie, Sonny Terry & Alex Stewart.

    • Audio
    • Granada Hills, CA : Stinson Records, [1962?]
    • 1962
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LZR 44368 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Keep your hands off her [sound recording] / Leadbelly.

    • Audio
    • [S.l.] : Verve-Folkways, [1966]
    • 1966
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LZR 47635 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.

  • Play and dance songs and tunes [sound recording] / edited by B.A. Botkin.

    • Audio
    • Washington, D.C] : Library of Congress, Music Division, Recording Laboratory, [198-?]
    • 195-1959
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LZR 4550 (CF) [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LZR 4550 (CF) [Notes]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • A long time [sound recording] / Ella Jenkins.

    • Audio
    • New York : Asch, 1970.
    • 1970
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LSRX 10193 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LSRX 10193 [Notes]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • [4 popular songs / words and music by Henry C. Work].

    • Notated music
    • [1853-1907?]
    • 1853-1907
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Notated music Sc Scores WorkSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.

  • Negro spirituals : arranged for solo voice / [by] Harry T. Burleigh.

    • Notated music
    • New York : G. Ricordi, [c1922]
    • 1922
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Notated music Sc 784.7-B (Burleigh, H. T. Negro spirituals)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Cabin and plantation songs as sung by the Hampton students / arranged by Thomas P. Fenner, Frederic G. Rathbun.

    • Text
    • New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1891.
    • 1891
    • 1 Item

    Available Online

    https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/38332180-ff45-0137-2aa4-61b4c836c066
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc Rare 784.7-F (Fenner, Th. P. Cabin and plantation songs. 1891)Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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  • Let my people go [sound recording].

    • Audio
    • [New York] : Columbia, [1968?]
    • 1968
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LZR 57782 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.

  • Negro prison camp work songs [sound recording].

    • Audio
    • New York : Ethnic Folkways Library, 1956.
    • 1956
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LZR 61344 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.

    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LZR 61344 [Lyrics]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Appalachia [sound recording] North country sketches.

    • Audio
    • [New York] : Odyssey, [1975]
    • 1975-19
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LZR 66915 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Odetta sings ballads and blues [sound recording].

    • Audio
    • [United States] : Tradition Records, [1956]
    • 1956
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LZR 69521 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.

    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LZR 69521 [Lyrics]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Take this hammer [sound recording] ; Rock Island line / Leadbelly

    • Audio
    • New York : Verve Folkways, [1965]
    • 1965-1946
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LZR 70433 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.

  • Slave songs of the United States / compiled by William Francis Allen.

    • Text
    • New York : A. Simpson, c1867.
    • 1867
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc Rare 784.7-A (Allen, W. F. Slave songs of the United States)Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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  • Religious folk songs of the Negro as sung on the plantations / arranged by the musical directors of The Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute from the original edition by Thomas P. Fenner

    • Text
    • Hampton, Va. : The Institute Press, 1909.
    • 1909
    • 2 Items

    Available Online

    https://hdl.handle.net/2027/nc01.ark:/13960/t0cv5bg3k
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc 784.7-F (Fenner, T. Religious folk songs of the Negro)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.

    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc Rare 784.7-F (Fenner, T. Religious folk songs of the Negro. 1909)Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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  • Calhoun plantation songs / collected and ed. by Emily Hallowell.

    • Notated music
    • Boston : C.W. Thompson, 1907.
    • 1907
  • Country negro jam session.

    • Audio
    • Baton Rouge, LA : Folk-Lyric Records, [1960?]
    • 1960
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LRX 3397Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.

  • Sonny Terry, harmonica and vocal solos.

    • Audio
    • New York : Folkways Records, ©1956.
    • 1956
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LOX 737Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • On the trail of Negro folk-songs / by Dorothy Scarborough ; assisted by Ola Lee Gulledge.

    • Text
    • Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1925.
    • 1925
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text GR103.S28Off-site
  • Ain't you got a right to the tree of life? : The people of Johns Island, South Carolina, their faces, their words, and their songs / recorded by Guy and Candie Carawan. Photographed by Robert Yellin. Music transcribed by Ethel Raim, with a pref. by Alan Lomax.

    • Text
    • New York : Simon and Schuster, [1967, c1966]
    • 1967-1966
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text E185.93.S7C3 1967Off-site
  • Du chant au poème : la genèse, les structures et les thèmes dans le sermon, le chant et la poésie populaires afro-américains / par Guy-Claude Balmir.

    • Text
    • Paris : Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris III), 1977.
    • 1977
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text PS310.N4 B33qOff-site
  • Blues lyric poetry : a concordance / Michael Taft.

    • Text
    • New York : Garland Pub., 1984.
    • 1984
    • 3 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text PS309.B55 T33 1984q vol.3Off-site
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text PS309.B55 T33 1984q vol.2Off-site
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text PS309.B55 T33 1984q vol.1Off-site
  • On the trail of Negro folk-songs / by Dorothy Scarborough ; assisted by Ola Lee Gulledge.

    • Text
    • Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1925.
    • 1925
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text GR103.S28Off-site
  • Ain't you got a right to the tree of life? : The people of Johns Island, South Carolina, their faces, their words, and their songs / recorded by Guy and Candie Carawan. Photographed by Robert Yellin. Music transcribed by Ethel Raim, with a pref. by Alan Lomax.

    • Text
    • New York : Simon and Schuster, [1967, c1966]
    • 1967-1966
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text E185.93.S7 C3 1967Off-site
  • Take this hammer / Leadbelly.

    • Audio
    • New York City : Folkways Records, 1968.
    • 1968
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio R 000557 LPOff-site
  • Dan Emmett and the rise of early Negro minstrelsy.

    • Text
    • Norman, University of Oklahoma Press [1962]
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text ML410.E5 N4Off-site
  • Blues lyric poetry : a concordance / Michael Taft.

    • Text
    • New York : Garland Pub., 1984.
    • 1984
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text PS309.B55 T33 1984q Oversize vol.1Off-site
  • The New popular forget-me-songster : containing the most choice collection of ballad songs, ever sung by any harmonists, with the choicest Negro melodies, & Christie's new songs.

    • Text
    • Cincinnati : U.P. James, [185-?]
    • 185
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text 3588.6727sOff-site
  • Negro folk music of Alabama.

    • Audio
    • N[ew] Y[ork] C[ity] : Folkways Records, [1960]
    • 1960
    • 4 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio LS- 14327 v. 1-6 v. 3Off-site
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio LS- 14327 v. 1-6 v. 5Off-site
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio LS- 14327 v. 1-6 v. 6Off-site

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