Description
- Notes:
- words anon.; music by Cuffy Josslin
- For voice, chorus (SATB), and piano
- Caption title
- "Words and music by Cuffy Josslin"--Cover
- Words appear anonymously in earlier song (c1848) under same title, set to different melody, "A life on the ocean wave", composed by Henry Russell
- Cover illustration: engraving of Afro-American sitting in ship's galley / Connelly Co.
Access Conditions
- Rights
- No Copyright - United States
- Restrictions on Use
- Collection is open for research.
Citation
Josslin, Cuffy,
"A life by de galley fire, or, A home in de good ole ship"
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:20485/
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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 …