Description
- Notes:
- words and music by John Ford
- For voice and piano, with chorus (SATB)
- Caption title.
- Title on cover: Away down South way down whar I was born
- Running title: Away down South
- Advertisement for other songs: p. 5
- Cover illustration: lithograph of Black men dancing on barge, with insets of young Black woman and of Black people working on plantation
- "Tho's Hunter, lith., Phil'a."--Cover
Access Conditions
- Rights
- No Copyright - United States
- Restrictions on Use
- Collection is open for research.
Citation
Ford, John,
"Away down South, 'way down where I was born::
song and chorus
"
(1876).
Representations of Blackness in Music of the United States (1830s-1920s).
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:18210/
Relations
Collection:
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Representations of Blackness in Music of the United States (1830s-1920s)
...This collection is a grouping of over 1,400 items dating from the 1830s to the 1920s. The contents of the collection depict representations of Black diasporic people and cultures through close to a century of illustrations and musical and lyrical …