# Negro workaday songs

Author: Odum, Howard Washington, 1884-1954; Johnson, Guy Benton, 1901-1991

Genre: Category: American Literature

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69378

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Negro+workaday+songs+Odum&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

To discover and present authentic pictures of the Negro’s folk background as found in his workaday songs is a large and promising task of which there are many phases. Here are spontaneous products of the Negro’s workaday experiences and conflicts. Here are reflections of his individual strivings and his group ways. Here are specimens of folk art and creative effort close to the soil. Here are new examples of the Negro’s contributions to the American scene. Here is important material for the newer scientific interest which is taking the place of the old sentimental viewpoint. And here is a mine of descriptive and objective data to substitute for the emotional and subjective attitudes of th...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/negro-workaday-songs-69378/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/negro-workaday-songs-69378/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/negro-workaday-songs-69378/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/negro-workaday-songs-69378/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter XV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/negro-workaday-songs-69378/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/negro-workaday-songs-69378/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/negro-workaday-songs-69378/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/negro-workaday-songs-69378/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/negro-workaday-songs-69378/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/negro-workaday-songs-69378/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/negro-workaday-songs-69378/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/negro-workaday-songs-69378/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/negro-workaday-songs-69378/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/negro-workaday-songs-69378/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/negro-workaday-songs-69378/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Chapter XIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/negro-workaday-songs-69378/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/negro-workaday-songs-69378/chapters/6/index.md)