Tracing Jewish thief of every African American musical art from from Blackface to Blues to Jazz. Book doesn't cover Hip-Hop, but that black art form has been hijacked as well.
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"No more peck o' corn for me, No more, no more, -- No more peck o' corn for me, Many tousand go.
"No more driver's lash for me, (Twice.) No more, &c.
"No more pint o' salt for me, (Twice.) No more, &c.
"No more hundred lash for me, (Twice.) No more, &c.
"No more mistress' call for me, No more, no more, -- No more mistress' call for me, Many tousand go."
Even of this last composition, however, we have only the approximate date, and know nothing of the mode of composition. Allan Ramsay says of the Scotch songs, that, no matter who made them, they were soon attributed to the minister of the parish whence they sprang. And I always wondered, about these, whether they had always a conscious and definite origin in some leading mind, or whether they grew by gradual accretion, in an almost unconscious way. On this point I could get no information, though I asked many questions, until at last, one day when I was being rowed across from Beaufort to Ladies' Island, I found myself, with delight, on the actual trail of a song. One of the oarsmen, a brisk young fellow, not a soldier, on being asked for his theory of the matter, dropped out a coy confession. "Some good sperituals," he said, "are start jess out o' curiosity. I been a-raise a sing, myself, once."
My dream was fulfilled, and I had traced out, not the poem alone, but the poet. I implored him to proceed.
"Once we boys," he said, "went for tote some rice, and de nigger-driver, he keep a-callin' on us; and I say, 'O, de ole nigger-driver!' Den anudder said, 'Fust ting my mammy tole me was, notin' so bad as nigger-driver.' Den I made a sing, just puttin' a word, and den anudder word."
Then he began singing, and the men, after listening a moment, joined in the chorus as if it were an old acquaintance, though they evidently had never heard it before. I saw how easily a new "sing" took root among them.
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^ Arwa, I think you will like it even though the view is from the Jewish perspective. The author shows how Jews used blacks while in slavery, fresh off the plantation and during the black power movement.
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