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Just listen to this song I'm singing : African-American history through song
Publication Information
Brookfield, Conn. : Millbrook Press, c1996.
Physical Description
95 p. : ill., music ; 29 cm.
Summary
Uses the music and lyrics of thirteen African-American songs as a focal point for relating the history of the African-American experience and for telling American musical history.
Notes
Includes music for voice and keyboard, with chord symbols.
Contents
- Michael, row the boat ashore
- Go down, Moses
- Follow the drinking gourd
- John Henry
- Joe Turner
- Casey Jones
- The ragtime dance song
- Yellow dog blues
- The long-line skinner blues
- The midnight special
- Don't you leave me here
- The Darktown Strutter's Ball
- We shall overcome.