Contents

pp v-viii

Illustrations

pp ix-x

Music Examples

pp xi-xiii

Miscellaneous Frontmatter

pp xiv-xiv

Foreword

pp xv-xv

Foreword: A Few Personal Words about Ruth Crawford Seeger’s The Music of American Folk Song

pp xvi-xviii

Foreword

pp xix-xx

Historical Introduction: The Salvation of Writing Things Down

pp xxi-xxx

Editor’s Introduction

pp xxxi-lii

Abbreviations

pp liii-liv

The Music of American Folk Song

pp 1-4

I - A Note on Transcription

pp 5-30

II - Notes on the Songs and on Manners of Singing

pp 31-76

Editor’s Endnotes

pp 77-107

Appendix 1 - Songs Referred to in The Music of American Folk Song

pp 108-113

Appendix 2 - List of Transcriptions in the Lomax Family Papers, Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin

pp 114-117

Appendix 3 - Amazing Grace/Pisgah Transcription

pp 118-126

Selected Other Writings on American Folk Music

pp 127-128

Editor’s Introduction

pp 129-130

Pre-School Children and American Folk Songs

pp 131-136

Keep the Song Going!

pp 137-143

[Review of] John N. Work, Composer and Arranger, American Negro Songs for Mixed Voices (Philadelphia: Theodore Presser Co., 1948, 259 pp., $1.50)

pp 144-146

Index of Songs

pp 147-152

Index

pp 153-156

Miscellaneous Endmatter

pp 157-157