The Journal of American Culture, March 1st, 2005
An Alabama Songbook: Ballads, Folksongs, and Spirituals Collected by Byron Arnold Robert W. Halli Jr., Editor. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2004. The fine Byron Arnold collection of Alabama folk songs is the result of a splash of the material on the collector. Arnold, a graduate of the Eastman School of Music, joined the music faculty of the University of Alabama in 1938. Two weeks later, he was taken to a Black "foot-washing" and was overwhelmed by the fervor of the singing and preaching. He immediately understood the importance of this music and folk music to the black people an...
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