Transcriber’s Notes Text printed in italics in the source document has been transcribed between _underscores_. Underlined text has been transcribed between =equal signs=, spaced text between ~tildes~. Small capitals have been replaced with ALL CAPITALS. More Transcriber’s Notes may be found at the end of this text. =THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SOCIAL STUDY SERIES= NEGRO WORKADAY SONGS THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SOCIAL STUDY SERIES THE NEGRO AND HIS SONGS $3.00 FOLK BELIEFS OF THE SOUTHERN NEGRO 5.00 NEGRO WORKADAY SONGS 3.00 SOUTHERN PIONEERS 2.00 LAW AND MORALS 2.00 THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF HUMAN SOCIETY 2.00 SYSTEMS OF PUBLIC WELFARE 2.00 ROADS TO SOCIAL PEACE 1.50 THE COUNTRY NEWSPAPER 1.50 CHILDREN’S INTEREST IN READING 1.50 NEGRO WORKADAY SONGS BY HOWARD W. ODUM, Ph.D. _Kenan Professor of Sociology and Director of the School of Public Welfare, University of North Carolina_ AND GUY B. JOHNSON, A.M. _Institute for Research in Social Science, University of North Carolina_ [Illustration] CHAPEL HILL THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS LONDON: HUMPHREY MILFORD OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 1926 COPYRIGHT, 1926, BY THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS ALL RIGHTS RESERVED PRESSES OF EDWARDS & BROUGHTON COMPANY RALEIGH _A vast throng of Negro workaday singers, mirrors of a race_ _Workingmen in the Southern United States from highway, construction camp, from railroad and farm, from city and countryside, a million strong_ _A half million migrants from the South, Eastward, Northward, Westward, and some South again_ _Negro offenders in thousand fold in local jails, county chain gangs, state and federal prisons_ _A horde of Southern casual laborers and wanderers down that lonesome road_ _A brown black army of “bad men”--creepers and ramblers and jamboree breakers, “travelin’ men” de luxe_ _Itinerant full-handed musicianers, music physicianers and songsters, singly, in pairs, quartets, always moving on_ _A host of women workers from field and home and factory at once singers and subjects of the lonesome blues_ _A swelling crescendo, a race vibrato inimitable, descriptive index of group character, folk urge and race power_ PREFACE