Resources
- History of the Blues
- Afro-American Spirituals, Work Songs, and Ballads
- Go Down, Old Hannah--information
- Gandy Dancers
- Afro-American Work Songs in the Texas Prisons
- Singing Fisherman in Ghana
- What is African American Music and How Does It Mean?
- Traditional Work Songs
References
Abrahams, Roger D. 1985. Afro-American Folktales: Stories from Black Traditions in the New World. New York: Pantheon Books.
Botkin, Benjamin A., ed. n.d. “Negro Work Songs and Calls.” Archive of Folk Song. Accessed July 27, 2021. https://www.loc.gov/folklife/LP/NegroWorkSongsAFS_L8.pdf.
Brooks, Tilford. 1984. America's Black Musical Heritage. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
Burnim, M.V. and P.K. Maultsby. 2015. African American Music: An Introduction, 2nd ed. New York: Routledge.
Cataliotti, Robert H. n.d. “Every Tone a Testimony: An African American Aural History.” Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. Accessed April 16, 2021. https://folkways-media.si.edu/liner_notes/smithsonian_folkways/SFW47003.pdf.
Demelo, Craig. 2018. "Fight the Power: Subversion in the Oral Tradition of African American Art." M.A. thesis, Bridgewater State University.
Digital Scholarship Lab, University of Richmond. n.d. "African American Work Songs." The History Engine. Accessed March 19, 2021. https://historyengine.richmond.edu/episodes/view/6723.
Dornfeld, Barry and Maggie Holtzberg. 1994. "Transcript, Gandy Dancers." Folkstreams. Accessed March 23, 2021. http://www.folkstreams.net/film-context.php?id=166.
Jackson, Bruce. 1994. "Wake Up Dead Man Audio Recording." Folkstreams. Accessed June 1, 2021. http://www.folkstreams.net/film-context.php?id=172.
Jackson, G. P. 2015. "'Rosy, Possum, Morning Star: African American Women's Work and Play Songs': An Excerpt from Put Your Hands on Your Hips and Act Like a Woman: Song, Dance, Black History, and Poetics in Performance." Journal of Black Studies 46, no.8 (November): 773–796.
James, Willis Laurence. 1955. "The Romance of the Negro Folk Cry in America." Phylon (1940–1956) 16, no.1: 15–30.
Jones, J. 1985. Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present. New York, NY: Basic Books.
Maultsby, P.K. and M.V. Burnim. 2017. Issues in African American Music: Power, Gender, Race, Representation. New York: Routledge.
Southern, Eileen. 1997. The Music of Black Americans: A History, 3rd ed. New York: Norton.