Wednesday, August 12, 2009

An antebellum African American work song?

Sheet music published in Cincinatti in 1854 titled "And Dat's Another Pull Back" by Frank Williams that's billed as an authentic plantation song i.e. "A Sure Enough Corn Song Taken From the Darkies Themselves." It does look like a call-and-response work song.

In the Library of Congress collection Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1820-1860.

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