Done wid Driber's Dribin]]> Click here to see the score in HathiTrust, from Harvard Library's collections]]> The Music of Black Americans: A History. First edition. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1971, 238.]]> Stay in the Field]]> Click here to see the score in the Internet Archive, from Cornell University Library's collections]]> Old Plantation Hymns: a collection of hitherto unpublished melodies of the slave and the freedman, with historical and descriptive notes]]> The Music of Black Americans: A History. First edition. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1971, 233.]]> John Brown]]> The Music of Black Americans, the melody used for John Brown's Body was composed by William Steffe, whose name does not appear on this version of the piece.]]> Click here to see the score in the Library of Congress's digital collections]]> The Music of Black Americans: A History. First edition. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1971, 231.]]> Follow the Drinkin' Gourd]]> Follow de drinkin' gou'd. Publications of the Texas Folklore Society no. 7.

]]> The Music of Black Americans: A History. First edition. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1971, 131.]]> Is There a Heart That Never Lov'd]]> The Music of Black Americans combines Braham's tune (Is there a heart that never lov'd) and Brown's text (The sweets of liberty) to demonstrate how familiar songs were sung with newly written texts at mid-eighteenth-century anti-slavery meetings in New England.]]> Click here to see the score in the Library of Congress digital collections

Click here to see William Wells Brown's anti-slavery alternative text in HathiTrust, from the University of Michigan's collections]]> The Music of Black Americans: A History. First edition. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1971, 127.]]> Zip Coon]]> Turkey in the Straw, Coony in de Hollar and Opossum Up a Gum Tree. ]]> Click here to see the score in the Library of Congress's digital collections]]> The Music of Black Americans: A History. First edition. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1971, 120.]]> Give Up the World]]> Click here to see the score in Harvard Libary's digital collections]]> Slave Songs of the United States]]> The Music of Black Americans: A History. First edition. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1971, 92.]]> Bay Psalm Book (complete title: The Whole Booke of Psalmes Faithfully Translated into English Metre) is a metrical psalter first printed in 1640 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It contains no melodies, only texts, but this excerpt is included here because Dr. Southern devotes several paragraphs to it in The Music of Black Americans. ]]> Click here to see the book in the Library of Congress's digital collections]]> The vvhole booke of Psalmes faithfully translated into English metre. Whereunto is prefixed a discourse declaring not only the lawfullnes, but also the necessity of the heavenly ordinance of singing Scripture Psalmes in the churches of God]]> The Music of Black Americans: A History. First edition. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1971, 32.]]> In That Great Getting-Up Morning]]> Click here to see the score in HathiTrust, from the University of California San Diego library collections]]> Jubilee and plantation songs: characteristic favorites, as sung by the Hampton students, Jubilee singers, Fisk University students, and other companies]]> The Music of Black Americans: A History. First edition. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1971, 219.]]> In That Great Day]]> Click here to see the score in the Internet Archive, from Cornell University Library's collections]]> Old Plantation Hymns: a collection of hitherto unpublished melodies of the slave and the freedman, with historical and descriptive notes]]> The Music of Black Americans: A History. First edition. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1971, 211.]]>