White spirituals in the southern uplands : the story of the fasola folk, their songs, singings, and "buckwheat notes"
George Pullen Jackson, Don Yoder (Writer of introduction)
Criticism, interpretation, etc
XV, xiii, 444 pages, 36 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits, music, facsimiles ; 22 cm
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pt. I : The old fasola folk
Beginnings of American group singing in New England
Early shape-note singing schools : their spread to the west and south
In the Shenandoah Valley
A Missouri book, two in Kentucky, one in middle Tennessee
Virginia again ; east Tennessee
"Singin' Billy" Walker and his southern harmony
Two Georgians and their work
Benjamin Franklin White of Georgia and his associates
The sacred harp
The sacred harpers
A sacred harp singing convention in Texas
The songs themselves : eighty most popular tunes
Song titles, sources, colloquialisms
Celtic melodic idiom
Dance tunes : other secular features
Ballads of religious experience, bad women, bad men, biblical events
Song classification
Spiritual songs born in camp-meetings
Tunes of the white man's spirituals preserved in the negro's religious songs
White man's and negro's spiritual texts compared
City church folk slowly abandon the south's indigenous songs
pt. II : fasola offspring, the dorayme folk
Aikin's seven shapes ; other sets
"Old harp singers" of eastern Tennessee and their book
Other seven-shape song books
Numeral notations and others used by Southern rurals
New styles in songs, books, and notations
Benjamin Unseld and the normal schools
Rural shape-note song books by the million
Who makes the songs?
Rural song meets people's tastes
Musical periodicals and other propaganda
"God's music" in the country churches
Shape-notes and dorayme songs among the Indians
Struggle for existence
Includes unacc. melodies
"Reprinted from the original edition of 1933 by arrangement with the University of North Carolina Press"--Title page verso