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Negro Workaday Songs
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"Negro Workaday Songs" is a foundational study of African American folk music and labor traditions, compiled by sociologists Howard W. Odum and Guy B. Johnson. This volume offers a comprehensive look at the spontaneous musical expressions found in the daily lives of Black laborers in the early 20th-century American South. Unlike stylized spirituals or commercial blues, the songs collected here-ranging from chain gang chants and construction rhythms to secular ballads and "bad man" songs-pro...