On the Trail of Negro Folk-Songs
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1925.
First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 8vo, 289 pp, in original green cloth stamped in gilt. Rubbing to foot of spine, else fine. Born in Texas in 1878, Scarborough became a professor at Columbia University, where her research focused on supernatural fiction, folklore, and folk music, which also featured prominently in several novels she wrote. This work, which reflects increasing academic interest in African-American music in the 1920s, includes chapters on ballads, dance songs, children's game songs, lullabies, songs about animals, work songs, railroad songs, and the blues. Scarborough's writing is both scholarly and personal, and it includes interesting details of her experiences as she traveled the South in search of new songs, their singers, and their stories.
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