Africa's mark in the western hemisphere
Some Yoruba legends in Cuba: The distribution of the Orishas' powers ; Olofin punishes Babluaye ; Ogun traps Orumbila ; Why Obatala trembles at the river ; Shango looks for his father ; Obatala's yams.
Lucumi (Yorubi) liturgical music in Cuba: Two liturgical songs of the Lucumi ; Lucumi dance-songs for Eleggua (Legba) ; Lucumi dance-song for Ogun.
Rites of the Abakwa secret society: An Abakwa initiation ; Abakwa drumming ; Some passages from Abakwa songs.
Haitian religious traditions: Vodoun ; A hounfor seen at the turn of the century.
Two Vodoun rituals: Service for Agwe, God of the Sea ; The degradation ceremony.
Two Haitian drum rhythms: Kitta mouille, or "Wet" Kitta ; Ibo dance.
Haiti's political songs: comments on the mighty
Haitian tales: gods, tricksters and others: Nananbouclou and the piece of fire ; The voyage below the water ; Merisier, stronger than the elephants ; Jean Britisse, the champion ; Charles Legoun and his friend ; The singing tortoise ; Bouki and Ti Malice go fishing ; Baptizing the babies ; Bouki and Ti Bef ; Uncle Bouki gets Whee-Ai.
Haitian animal tales: Who is the older? ; The dogs pay a visit to God ; Frog, Chief of the Well ; The lizard Bocor.
The Creole language: Removing a loa from the head of a person who has died ; Brother Ledan's return.
Calls of the Haitian street vendors
Negro song poetry in Puerto Rico: When they start the fire ; There are many Negroes here ; When the white man plays the drum ; The black Amelia ; When a Negro goes to dance ; A black man stole a chicken.
Four tales from Guadeloupe: Woy, who knows? ; Why people do not live again after death ; Oh, misery! ; Rabbit seeks wisdom.
Two old slave songs from Carriacou
The Bamboula dance, myth and reality
Preacher tales in the Caribbean: The responsive congregation ; The parson's beard ; Whatsoever in thy bosom ; The hymn ; Pack of cards ; The parson's hog ; Come in or stay out ; My name first.
West Indian Calypso: Small island ; Bamboo dance ; Subway train ; Dorothy, one morning ; My donkey want water ; Matilda ; So them bad minded ; Stickman ; All day, all night, Merriam.
Some tales with African themes from the English-speaking islands: The three companions ; Tar Baby: eavesdropper: without scratching ; Magic flight ; The things that talked.
Tales of cuckolds and rakes: Man from God ; Frightened sweetheart ; Husband in the bag ; Tom Bell ; Charge the engineer.
Other tales from the English-speaking islands: Back in the same hole ; Fishing on Sunday ; She sends for her husband ; The cruel friend ; Only one mouthful.
One bright summer morning
Some ballads from the Bahamas: The sinking of the Pytoria ; The burning of Curry Camp ; Cecil lost in the storm
African-derived religious motifs in Jamaics
The Ras Tafarai movement in Jamaica
About the Maroons of Jamaica: Quadrille and Polka in Accompong ; Two tales from Accompong ; Fowl and Cockroach ; Horse and Turtle.
Some Trinidadian healing remedies
Song of a household slave in Mexico
The black Caribs of British Honduras: As they were seen in the year 1700 ; The black Caribs today ; A black Carib tale of the constellations ; Black Carib rituals ; The Amuiadahani rite ; The Cugu rite ; The Dogo rite ; Ceremonies, songs and dances ; Possession by ancestral spirits ; Some black Carib proverbs.
Surinam: coast people and bush Negroes: On the capture and transport of slaves ; On their languages, music and customs ; On the condition of slavery ; A Surinam Obeahman ; A free Negro's retort ; On some rebel chiefs and their villages ; Musical instruments and dances.
Djuka song from the Surinam bush
Some proverbs of the Saramacca Bush-Negroes of Surinam
Lobi Singi from Paramaribo.
Some Surinam tales: Why Cat and Dog are enemies ; Dog asks for a new name ; Why Dog goes about naked ; Dog's riddle ; Grudging hospitality ; The feast on the mountain and the feast under the water ; Tables turned: Cockroach revenged on Anansi ; Giants cure boastfulness ; Spreading the fingers ; The fastidious go hungry ; The preacher traps a thief ; The Devil complains ; Broken pledge: all things talk ; Trespassing on the Devil's land.
Three party songs from Guyana
Four Afro-Venezuelan tales: The man, the snake and the fox ; The swordfish ; The woman, the giant and the vulture ; The rooster, the goat and the dog.
The Afro-Venezuelan Mampulorio
Three Afro-Venezuelan songs
Brazil: the Palmares story
African religious survivals in Brazil
Ketu ceremony honoring the deity Yansan
Some Brazilian cult songs to Yoruba deities
Melody of a Brazilian cult song
A cult festival, as reported in the press
Some words of African origin in Brazilian-Portuguese speech
The man who took a water mother for his bride
Brazil: the way of Batucada: Voice of the backstreets ; In Batista's street ; Why do you cry? ; I will reform ; I will go away ; Unfortunate vagrant ; I went to the hill ; Where I met you ; I go to Lisbon ; You want to break me ; Sad destiny.
Afro-American lore, oral literature and folk music in the United States: The question of survivals ; Black, African-American or Negro? ; The matter of vernacular.
The situation of the blacks as seen by nineteenth-century chroniclers: Frederika Bremer's impressions ; As Frederick Law Olmstead saw the slave states ; Frances Anne Kemble on the selling of slaves.
Traditions and recollections in the sea islands
The Gullah speech of the coastal region
Three tales in Gullah dialect: Buh Rabbit and Buh Wolf go hunting ; Buh Deer and Buh Snail have a race ; Playing dead in the road.
Uncle Remus confronted by the coastal dialect
Spirituals and religious epics
As the spirituals are sung: Wake up Jonah ; Job, Job ; Rock chariot ; King David ; When Jesus met the woman at the well ; Wonder where my brother is gone.
Form the pulpit: Sermon: is God with us? ; John Jasper's sermon on the sun ; Sermon: behold the rib ; Sermon: the poor-rich and the rich-poor.
The religious shout: Run old Jeremiah
On the making of songs: Bo-Cat ; Richard Creeks on songmaking.
Evolution of a plantation song
Some traditional black ballads: The ballad of Louis Collins ; Frankie and Albert ; Casey Jones ; Betty and Dupree ; Poor Lazarus ; The sinking of the Titanic.
Worksongs: road gangs and prison camps: Don't you hear my hammer ringing ; Lost John ; Here rattler here ; Grizzly bear ; Captain Holler hurry.
Some miscellaneous old beliefs
A Mississippi sharecropper, 1954.
Recollections of Old Master and John: Old Boss, John, and the mule ; Old Boss and George ; Old Master and okra ; Old Master and the bear ; Cussing out Old Master ; John calls on the Lord ; John saves Old Master's children ; Conversation about a slave ; John steals a pig and a sheep ; Baby in the crib ; The yearling ; Old Marster eats crow ; John praying ; The mojo ; The single ball ; The champion ; Old Master and John go hunting ; John's watch ; The ducks get the cotton ; John sharecrops for Old Boss ; John in jail ; The horsefly ; John and the blacksnake.
Justice, injustice and ghosts in the swamps of the Congaree: Judge Foolbird ; The settin' up ; The little old man on the gray mule ; The lake of the dead ; Murder vs. liquor ; Old Dictodemus ; Old man Rogan ; The yellow crane ; Ruint.
Churches, preachers, and deacons: Devil in church ; Preacher and the Devil ; What the preacher's talking about ; The bear fight ; Human weakness ; The card game ; John and the bear ; Go down below ; Balaam's ass ; Fattening the calf.
Testing wits: Buh Rabbit, Buh Fox, and other creatures: Brer Coon gets his meat ; Brer Rabbt in the well ; Terrapin's pot of sense ; Buh Rabbit's 'gator fry ; Buh Buzzard and salvation ; Rail fence ; The magic hoe ; Between two dinners ; Catching the snake and the yellowjackets ; Terrapin shows his strength.
Testing wits: human vs. demon: Wiley and the hair man.
Moralizing tales: The dying bullfrog ; Buh Raccoon and Buh Possum ; Two friends and the bear ; The eagle and his children ; Chanticleer and the barnyard rooster ; Buh Lion and Buh Goat ; Buh Turkey Buzzard and the rain ; Buh Fox says grace ; Knee-high man wants to be sizable ; Reform meeting ; Buh Fox's number nine shoes ; The well.
The beginning of things: Origin of the races, according to Uncle Remus ; The deluge, according to Uncle Remus.
An Alabama storyteller and bard: Chicago and Rome ; River, creek, sun, moon ; The draft board ; The visit to Dr. Readys ; Excerpt from an Amerson Street corner sermon
The tub with the ancient antecedents
The Carolina yell and other cries and calls
Blues: About women ; Homesick, broke and far from home ; Jails and county farms ; Two free-form blues.
Boasting and big-old lies
Richard Creeks on conjuring and docturing
Some ring and line games from Alabama
African dancing in New Orleans
"Voodoo" rituals in New Orleans
Creole tales from Louisiana: The Irishman and the frogs ; The marriage of Compere Lapin.
New Orleans superstitions: some Creole proverbial wisdom.
