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Published by University of Illinois Press, 1989
ISBN 10: 0252016327ISBN 13: 9780252016325
Seller: SecondSale, Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.
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Condition: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.
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Published by Information Coordinators, 1969
Seller: Downtown Atlantis Books, EVANSTON, IL, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Very good condition.
Published by Information Coordinators, Detroit, 1969
Seller: Colin Coleman Music, Stewkley, United Kingdom
Book
Publisher's printed paperback. Detroit Studies in Music Bibliography, 14. Size: 8vo. x, 243pp.
Published by University of Illinois Press, 1981
ISBN 10: 0252008758ISBN 13: 9780252008757
Seller: Half Moon Books, Kingston, NY, U.S.A.
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paperback. Condition: Very Good. Covers show some light scuffing and flaring as well as some faint browning. Spine shows some light soiling and page edges show some light foxing.
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Published by University of Illinois Press, 2003
ISBN 10: 0252071506ISBN 13: 9780252071508
Seller: Lady BookHouse, Belmont, MA, U.S.A.
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paperback. Condition: Very Good. This book is in very good condition, with only minor signs of wear and use. The pages may contain limited notes or highlighting, but overall, the text remains clean and legible. The cover and spine are also in great shape, with only minimal shelf wear or creasing. This book has been well-maintained and still presents a clean and attractive appearance.
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Published by University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 1989
ISBN 10: 0252016327ISBN 13: 9780252016325
Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Mss, ABAA, Galena, IL, U.S.A.
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Edited by Dena J. Polacheck Epstein. Small 4to. Brown cloth, pictorial dust jacket. xx, 248pp. Illustrations. Fine/very good. Jacket spine badly sunned. Tight, nice first edition, handsomely inscribed and signed by the editor in black marker on the front flyleaf: "For Marjorie Stern / with best wishes, / Dena J. Polacheck Epstein.".
hardback. Condition: Fine. Black Folk Music to the Civil War. 1st ed. U of Illinois, 1977. A fine copy in damaged dust wrapper.
Published by Detroit: Information Coordinators, 1969. Detroit Studies in Music Bibliography No.14. *, 1969
Seller: Travis & Emery Music Bookshop ABA, London, United Kingdom
8vo 243 pages. Wrappers. Slight crease to front wrapper, else VG. Printed in Typescript.
Published by University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 1977
ISBN 10: 0252005201ISBN 13: 9780252005206
Book
Hardcover. Pale green cloth boards with gilt spine lettering; white dj with green lettering and bw illustration; mylar cover; xix, 433 pp; bw illustrations and music. Prologue. The African heritage and the Middle Passage -- Early reports of African music in British and French America. La calinda and the banza ; Other African dancing -- More Black instruments and early white reaction. Drums and other African instruments ; The balafo ; Legal restrictions on instruments -- The role of music in daily life. Funerals ; Pinkster and other African clelebrations in the North ; Worksongs and other kinds of African singing -- The acculturation of African music in the new world. The arrival of Africans and their music ; Acculturation in New Orleans -- Conversion to Christianity -- Acculturated Black music in the thirteen colonies. The African jig, a Black-to-white exchange -- African survivals. Persisting musical and cultural patterns ; Black music in New Orleans, 1820-67 -- Acculturated dancing and associated instruments. Patting juba ; Drums, quills, banjo, bones, triangle, tambourine ; Fiddlers ; Instrumental combinations -- Worksongs. Field work and domestic chores ; Industrial and steamboat workers ; Boat songs ; Corn, cane, and other harvest songs ; Singing on the march ; Street cries and field hollers -- Distinctive characteristics of secular Black folk music. Whistling ; Improvisation ; Satire ; Style of singing ; Other secular music --The religious background of sacred Black folk music, 1801-67. Opposition to religious instruction of slaves ; Camp meetings ; Missions to the slaves ; Black religious groups ; Oppostion to secular music and dancing -- Distinctive Black religious music. Spirituals ; Attempts to suppress Black religious singing ; The shout ; Funerals -- Early wartime reports and the first publication of a spiritual and its music -- The Port Royal experiment. Historical background ; Earliest published reports ; Wartime publication of song texts and music -- Reports of Black folk music, 1863-67. Criticism of "this barbaric music" ; Recognition of a distinctive folk music ; The shout ; Worksongs ; Performance style ; Introduction of "new songs" by the teachers -- Slave songs of the United States : its editors. William Francis Allen ; Charles Pickard Ware ; Lucy McKim Garrison -- Slave songs of the United States : its publication. The contirbutors ; Problems of notation ; Assembling the collection ; Publication and reception -- Conclusion -- Appendix I. Musical excerpts from the manuscript diaries of William Francis Allen -- Appendix II. Table of sources for the banjo, chronologically arranged -- Appendix III. Earliest published versions of "Go down, Moses." VG-/VG- (Ex-library with stamps and labels on spine, inside front and rear covers, ffep and block. Overall light shelfwear. Pages are otherwise clean.).
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Published by University of Illinois Press, Urbana, IL, 1977
Seller: CHARTWELL BOOKSELLERS, NEW YORK, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). Condition: Very Good. First American Edition. A monumental work. This is a very good First Edition copy, in dust jacket.