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Sm 8vo (7.375" x 5.5"), illustrated brown wrappers. [96] pp., pub. ads. on inner wrappers. CONDITION: Very good, a few cracks at spine and small tears to edges of wrappers, very occasional light foxing to contents. A collection of popular minstrel songs presented as cotton field originals, including several pieces by female lyricists. This volume, whose front cover illustration pictures African Americans in a cotton field looking awfully like blackface minstrels, embraces a hundred pieces, all "Sung by Leading Minstrels," and many in dialect. Although the title and cover-illustration suggest the volume is a collection of African American work songs and field hollers, the pieces are credited to leading white composers of the day, and all are copyrighted by the publisher, Philadelphia-based music dealer and supplies manufacturer W. F. Shaw. Both lyrics and musical notation for a vocalist are given for each piece, all bearing the notice: "This Complete Song to be had of any music dealer, or will be mailed, Post-paid," for the price of thirty or fourty cents. Songs include "Jamie are you Coming?" (credited to Charles Heywood); "I's Gwine to Alabama" ("Words by Geo. M. Vickers. Music by Adam Geibel"), and "I Guess You Have All Been There" (a "serio-comic song" by J. P. Skelly). The earliest song in the volume, copyrighted in 1874, is called "Now or Never," with lyrics by "Miss Katie Belle Wichman" and music by E. Mack. The volume also includes "Meet me, Darling, by the Mill," a late-career composition by the famous poet, lyricist, and mission worker Fanny Crosby, with music by choral composer Hart Pease Danks. Other composers represented include Harry Angelo (a well-known blackface minstrel performer), Thomas P. Westendorf, Fred Lyons, and Ida Scott Taylor. N° de ref. del artículo 8704
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