Negro Folk Rhymes: Wise and Otherwise, With a Study (Classic Reprint)

Of the making of books by individual authors there is no end; but a cultivated literary taste among the exceptional few has rendered almost impossible the production of genuine folk-songs. The spectacle, therefore, of a homogeneous throng of partly civilized people dancing to the music of crude instruments and evolving out of dance-rhythm a lyrical or narrative utterance in poetic form is sufficiently rare in the nineteenth century to challenge immediate attention. In Neffro Folk Rhymes is to be found no inconsiderable part of the musical and poetic life-records of a people; the compiler; presents an arresting volume which, in addition to being a pioneer and practically unique in its field, is as nearly exhaustive as a sympathetic understanding of theN egro mind, careful research, and labor of love can make it.
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