id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 35592 Thomas, W. H. (William Henry) Some Current Folk-Songs of the Negro .txt text/plain 4162 355 89 SOME CURRENT FOLK-SONGS OF THE NEGRO _Read before the Folk-Lore Society of Texas, 1912_ WILL THOMAS AND THE TEXAS FOLK-LORE SOCIETY Now that this brochure is being reprinted by the Texas Folk-Lore Society, Although not a numbered publication, =Some Current Folk-Songs of the Negro= work with folk-lore should not only collect it but interpret it and also at San Marcos, who has done notable work in Negro folk songs and who is SOME CURRENT FOLK-SONGS OF THE NEGRO AND THEIR ECONOMIC INTERPRETATION. misleading at this day and time to speak of the negro as a "folk." That Now a great change has come into the negro's economic life within the past follow one as he works with a white man, the latter, of course, being If you consider these songs as the negro's literature, you will notice We now come to songs originated by the present generation of negroes. ./cache/35592.txt ./txt/35592.txt