Content: For one or more voices, with accompaniment of piano and/or percussion instruments in varying combinations; includes chord symbols.
Content: English words, in part translated from French, Portuguese, Spanish and unspecified West African languages.

Physical Description

Extent: 1 close score (viii, 184 p.) : ill. ; 29 cm.

Languages

English

Identifiers

Library of Congress Control Number: m 61001013
RLIN/OCLC: NYPGR1574291-B
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b11717571
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 48cb0b70-7cf9-0134-f0dd-00505686a51c

Rights

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Type Of Resource

Text
Still Image
Notated Music

Date Issued

1961

Cite this item

MLA format

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library. "Echoes of Africa in Folk Songs of the Americas" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1961. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/48cb0b70-7cf9-0134-f0dd-00505686a51c

APA format

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library. (1961). Echoes of Africa in Folk Songs of the Americas Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/48cb0b70-7cf9-0134-f0dd-00505686a51c

Chicago/Turabian Format

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library. "Echoes of Africa in Folk Songs of the Americas" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 8, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/48cb0b70-7cf9-0134-f0dd-00505686a51c

Wikipedia citation

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