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A life by de galley fire

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Contributor:
Russell, Henry, 1812-1900 (composer)
Ethiopian Serenaders (performer)
William Hall & Son (New York, N.Y.) (publisher)
Subject:
African American sailors > Songs and music
Sea songs
Extent:
1 score ([2], 3-5, [3] p.) : col. ill. ; 36 cm.
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Notes:
sung by the Ethiopian Serenaders.
For voice, 4-part chorus, and piano.
Caption title.
Music appears in earlier song (c1838) entitled: A life on the ocean wave / music by Henry Russell.
Cover illustration: lithograph of Campbell Minstrels and other minstrels dancing.
"Lith by Sarony & Major, 135 Fulton St. N.Y."

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No Copyright - United States
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Collection is open for research.

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Russell, Henry, "A life by de galley fire" 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:25723/

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