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Songsters and Saints

Vocal Traditions on Race Records

  • Author: Oliver, Paul
fills an interesting and important gap in American musical history

Book

$58.25

Printed on demand

Estimated despatch time 7 - 10 days

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.