All songs in volume composed between circa 1932 and 1947.
Based on various autograph sources.
Dedicated to Barbara Wright-Pryor.
Also available in a transposed version for high voice.
Includes program notes, critical commentary, and biographical information on the composer, the poets, and the editor.
Includes bibliographical references.
English words.
Staff notation.
Brown Arms (To Mother) / poem by [Florence B. Price] -- Four Negro Songs. Easy goin' ; Summah night ; Dat's my gal, or The Photograph ; Goo'-bye, Jinks / poems by Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Lullaby (For a Black Mother) / poem by Langston Hughes -- My Soul and I / poem by Melvin B. Tolson