Slave Songs of the United States William F. Allen

This extraordinary anthology of antebellum slave songs provides musical settings for 136 musical texts and variants, in the process devoting much commentary to the regional variations in black folk music, the social settings in which the songs were customarily performed, and the distinctiveness of the Negro singing style. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Slave Songs of the United States (William F. Allen)