Step It Down: Games, Plays, Songs, and Stories from the Afro-American Heritage
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Book Overview
Growing up in the rural South, Bessie Jones sang her way through long hours of field work and child tending, entertaining her young companions with chants and riddles or joining them for a rousing evening of ring dances and singing plays. These songs and games, recorded in Step It Down by folklorist Bess Lomax Hawes, capture the shape and color of the crowded, impoverished, life-demanding, and life-loving days of the black family of sixty years...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0820309605
ISBN13:9780820309606
Release Date:September 1987
Publisher:University of Georgia Press
Length:256 Pages
Weight:0.95 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"
Customer Reviews
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Every Music Teacher should own this!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 18 years ago
This is a fantastic book of African-American Folk Songs. Bessie Jones includes not only the songs, but background information and games/motions to go along with it. I use it religiously in my lesson planning.
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