Negro Folk Rhymes

by Thomas Washington Talley

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1517087945
• ISBN13: 9781517087944
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 114 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"