Step It Down: Games, Plays, Songs, and Stories from the Afro-American Heritage by Bessie Jones, Bess Lomax Hawes

Step It Down: Games, Plays, Songs, and Stories from the Afro-American Heritage

Bessie Jones, Bess Lomax Hawes

256 pages first pub 1987 (editions)

nonfiction history music emotional informative medium-paced
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Growing up in the rural South, Bessie Jones sang her way through long hours of field work and child tending, entertaining her young companions with chants and riddles or joining them for a rousing evening of ring dances and singing plays. These so...

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