Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. List of Music Examples xi
5. Foreword xv
6. Foreword: A Few Personal Words about Ruth Crawford Seeger’s The Music of American Folk Song xvi
7. Foreword xix
8. Historical Introduction: The Salvation of Writing Things Down xxi
9. Editor’s Introduction xxxi
10. Abbreviations liii
11. The Music of American Folk Song
12. Contents 1
13. I. A Note on Transcription 7
14. II. Notes on the Songs and on Manners of Singing 31
15. Editor’s Endnotes 77
16. Appendix 1: Songs Referred to in The Music of American Folk Song 108
17. Appendix 2: List of Unpublished Transcriptions in the Lomax Family Archives 114
18. Appendix 3: Amazing Grace/Pisgah Transcriptions, from George Pullen Jackson, White and Negro Spirituals 118
19. Selected Other Writings on American Folk Music
20. Editor’s Introduction 129
21. Pre-School Children and American Folk Music (late 1940s?) 131
22. Keep the Song Going! (1951) 137
23. Review of John N. Work, American Negro Songs for Mixed Voices (1948) 144
24. Index of Songs 147
25. Index 153