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Posted By: GUEST
14-Feb-11 - 04:28 PM
Thread Name: Help: Cotton Eye Joe History
Subject: RE: Help: Cotton Eye Joe History
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Subject: 'NEGRO,' 'BLACK,' or 'AFRICAN-AMERICAN' SPIRITUALS
From: W y s i w y G !
Date: 02 Feb 04 - 12:42 PM
'NEGRO,' 'BLACK,' or 'AFRICAN-AMERICAN' SPIRITUALS?
Names By Which Spirituals Have Been Called
By WYSIWYG and Q
Other names this music has been known by include:
Slave songs
Plantation songs
Sorrow songs
Jubilee songs
Exaltations
Negro songs
Cabin songs
Contrabandists songs (see below)
Religious Folk Songs
Spiritual Folk-Songs
Cotton Eyed Joe, a black folk song = Blues music in origin.
To my question, "Have blues any relation to Negro folk-song?'' Handy replied instantly:
" Yes — they are folk-music."
On the Trail of Negro Folk Songs, pp. 265.
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