Comprehensive collection embracing the whole range of Negro folk expression.
Contents
Animal tales -- Animal rhymes -- Memories of slavery -- Sometimes in the mind -- God, man and the devil -- Do you call that a preacher? -- Ghost stories -- Black magic and chance -- On the levee -- Amen corner -- Spirituals -- Gospel songs -- Pastime rhymes -- Ballads -- Blues -- Work songs -- Street cries -- Playsongs and games -- The jazz folk -- Harlem jive -- The "problem" -- Songs in the folk manner -- Poetry in the folk manner -- Prose in the folk manner.