Originally published in 1867, this book is a collection of songs of African-American slaves. A few of the songs were written after the emancipation, but all were inspired by slavery. The wild, sad strains tell, as the sufferers themselves could, of crushed hopes, keen sorrow, and a dull, daily misery, which covered them as hopelessly as the fog from the rice swamps. On the other hand, the words breathe a trusting faith in the life after, to which their eyes seem constantly turned.
Originally published in 1899, this collection of spirituals, folk songs, and ballads was collected and arranged by the musical instructors at the Hampton Institute, a historically African-American college in Virginia. The songs represent the cultural heritage of African Americans in the South, and many of them are still performed today. This new edition includes sheet music and lyrics for all of the songs, and provides a valuable resource for musicians and music historians alike. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
In 1872, a group of student singers€from the Hampton Institute in Virginia (an€African American school€that traced its history to€outdoor classes taught in 1861 to runaway slaves) toured the country to raise money for a new classroom building. For many white audiences, €the tour was€the first time hearing traditional plantation work songs and spirituals. This book, originally published in 1874, records the Hampton singers' songs.
Holehole bushi, folk songs of Japanese workers in Hawaii's plantations, describe the experiences of this particular group caught in the global movements of capital, empire, and labor during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In this book author Franklin Odo situates over two hundred of these songs, in translation, in a hitherto largely unexplored historical context.
Excerpt from Cabin and Plantation Songs, as Sung by the Hampton Students To these are now added over forty new ones, collected and ar ranged by Miss Bessie Cleaveland, musical instructor at Hampton since 1892. The hymn called by General Armstrong the Negroes' Battle Hymn, sung by his colored soldiers during the war and since then at Hampton, is added to the collection also, by special request, the grace sung at meal-time by the students of the school. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
