Library of DanceOn the Trail of Negro Folk-Songs
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On the Trail of Negro Folk-Songs

Dorothy Scarborough · Harvard University Press · 1925

Why this source matters

A 1925 field collection preserving reel, breakdown and dance-song texts with the contexts in which they were danced. Free and out of copyright; treat the framing as of its period, the transcriptions as evidence.

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