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قراءة كتاب Negro Folk Rhymes Wise and Otherwise: With a Study
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Negro Folk Rhymes Wise and Otherwise: With a Study
Transcriber's Note: Corrections are underlined with a thin dotted line—hovering over them will reveal an explanatory transcriber's note. Hyphenation of the word 'antebellum' has been regularized (ante-bellum → antebellum), and several spelling and punctuation irregularies between the index and the main text have been corrected without note. Several alphabetization errors in the index were also corrected. All other spelling and punctuation is as it appeared in the original.
Two identical footnotes on pages 42-43 have been merged into one (Footnote 16).
The Table of Contents did not appear in the original—it has been added by the transcriber.
NEGRO FOLK RHYMES
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
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Negro Folk Rhymes
Wise and Otherwise
WITH A STUDY
BY
THOMAS W. TALLEY,
OF FISK UNIVERSITY
New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1922
All rights reserved
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Copyright, 1922,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
Set up and printed. Published January, 1922.
Press of
J. J. Little & Ives Company
New York, U. S. A.
| PAGE | |
| INTRODUCTION | v |
| PART I: NEGRO FOLK RHYMES | 1 |
| Dance Rhyme Section | 1 |
| Dance Rhyme Song Section | 14 |
| Play Rhyme Section | 73 |
| Pastime Rhyme Section | 93 |
| Love Rhyme Section | 127 |
| Love Song Rhyme Section | 131 |
| Courtship Rhyme Section | 135 |
| Courtship Song Rhyme Section | 141 |
| Marriage Rhyme Section | 143 |
| Married Life Rhyme Section | 144 |
| Nursery Rhyme Section | 149 |
| Wise Saying Section | 207 |
| Foreign Section | 216 |
| PART II: A STUDY IN NEGRO FOLK RHYMES | 228 |
| GENERAL INDEX | 327 |
| COMPARATIVE STUDY INDEX | 337 |
INTRODUCTION
Of the making of books by individual authors there is no end; but a cultivated literary taste among the exceptional few has rendered almost impossible the production of genuine folk-songs. The spectacle, therefore, of a homogeneous throng of partly civilized people dancing to the music of crude instruments and evolving out of dance-rhythm a lyrical or narrative utterance in poetic form is sufficiently rare in the nineteenth century to challenge immediate attention. In Negro Folk Rhymes is to be found no inconsiderable part of the musical and poetic life-records of a people; the compiler presents an arresting volume which, in addition to being a pioneer and practically unique in its field, is as nearly exhaustive as a sympathetic understanding of the Negro mind, careful research, and labor of love can make it. Professor Talley of Fisk University has spared himself no pains in collecting and piecing together every attainable scrap and fragment of secular rhyme which might help in adequately interpreting the inner life of his own people.
Being the expression of a race in, or just emerging from bondage, these songs may at first seem to some readers trivial and almost wholly