OUR SINGING COUNTRY: A SECOND VOLUME OF AMERICAN BALLADS AND FOLK SONGS

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1941. Stated First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in Fair Dustjacket. Quarto. Grey boards with red lettering. Red topstain. [xxxiv] pp. 416. Includes index and bibliography. Second collection of folk songs and ballads gathered by the Lomaxes and scored by Ruth Crawford Seeger. Very light rubbing to extremities, and some browning to pastedowns. Dustjacket fair only, wikth brown tidelines to spine, edgewear and smudging. Very clean and very tight copy, whose dustjacket has done a creditable job protecting
the book itself from the vicissitudes of the 80+ years of the ensuing ages. Dustjacket, smudged, edgeworn and war-weary, now protected from further chronologically-induced insults, by sheathing it in mylar. Major Sections (with many subsections) include: I: Religious Songs; II: Social Songs; III: Men at Work; IV: Outlaws; V: Hollers and Blues; VI: Negro Gang Songs.

Subsections divided into I: Negro Spirituals, White Religious Songs; The Holiness People; II; White Dance Tunes; Negro Game Songs; Bahaman Negro Songs; Lullabies; Whoppers; Courting Songs; Old-Time Love Songs; French Songs and Ballads from Southwestern Louisiana; III: Soldiers and Sailors; Lumberjacks and Teamsters; Cowboy Songs; Railroaders and Hobos; Miners' Songs; Farmers of the South.