Songsters and Saints
Vocal Traditions on Race Records
- Author: Oliver, Paul
fills an interesting and important gap in American musical history —
Book
$58.25Printed on demand
Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- A note on the transcriptions
- The half ain't never been told
- An introduction
- 1. Do the Bombashay
- 2. Under the chicken tree
- 3 The long-tailed blue
- 4. If luck don't change
- 5. As the eagle stirreth her nest
- 6. Three ways to praise
- 7. Honey in the rock
- 8. Natural-born men
- 9. Next week, sometime...?
- Notes
- Bibliography
- A guide to reissued recordings
- Index of song titles
- Index of artists
- General index.