Greatest hits from the first decade of their career…
Category: Period Music Collections
Flaherty: “Music of the Old South: Polk Miller & the Old South Quartette” (2006)
Collects the recordings and ephemera of the OSQ (1909-1928), in all their shocking and confusing beauty…
Hugill: “Shanties from the Seven Seas” (1961)
“Shipboard Work-Songs and Songs Used as Work-Songs from the Great Days of Sail”
Hutchinson: “Republican Songster” (1860)
Shows how activist performers used music to advance their anti-slavery agenda during a tumultuous political season …
Wake Forest University: “Confederate Broadsides” Collection
A colorful collection of Southern propaganda…
Hodgson: Jim Crow’s Vagaries (1830s?)
In which we discovered such international gems as “Jim Crow’s Trip to France” & sundry others…
Hamilton College: “Banjo Instruction Manuals” Collection
Includes instructors by Howe (a.k.a. Chaff) (1851),Converse (1867), Buckley (1868), & many more…
Chaff: The Ethiopian Glee Book (1848-9)
Collects four-part settings of popular songs from the antebellum minstrel stage…
Brown University: “African American Sheet Music”
“This consists of music by and relating to African Americans, from the 1820s to the present day, and consists of approximately 6,000 items. …”
Allen &c.: Slave Songs of the United States (1867)
“The musical capacity of the negro race has been recognized for so many years that it is hard to explain why no systematic effort has hitherto been made to collect and preserve their melodies…”
Library of Congress: “America Singing: 19th Century Song Sheets”
“For most of the nineteenth century, before the advent of phonograph and radio technologies, Americans learned the latest songs from printed song sheets….”
The Hardtacks 