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Volume 9, Issue 1-2

1 September 1995

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Jon Michael Spencer

Jon Michael Spencer

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ISSN 1043-9455

EISSN 2640-9879

In this Issue

Foreword
Introduction
Dedication
Preface
Articles
Appendix
Bibliography
Index

Stars in de Elements: A Study of Negro Folk Music by Willis Laurence James

Foreword

Foreword

Jon Michael Spencer

Introduction

Introduction

Rebecca T. Cureau

Dedication

Dedication

Willis Laurence James

Preface

Preface

Willis Laurence James

Articles

Chapter 1. Prelude

Chapter 2. Cries in Speech and Song

Chapter 3. Dances, Blues, and Ballads

Chapter 4. The Rise of the Work Songs

Chapter 5. Imagery and Nature of the Work Song

Chapter 6. Characteristics

Chapter 7. “De Stars in de Elements”

Chapter 8. Wrong Roads

Chapter 9. The Influence of “Shape-Note” Singing

Chapter 10. Has the Negro Borrowed His Songs?

Chapter 11. The Wheel in a Wheel

Chapter 12. The Folk Festival

Chapter 13. Urban-Rural Cycle

Chapter 14. The Great Fantasia

Appendix

Appendix of Negro Songs

Bibliography

Bibliography

Index

Index

Music Index

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