Step it Down: Games, Plays, Songs and Stories from the Afro-American Heritage (Brown Thrasher Books)

by Bess Lomax Hawes (Author), Bessie Jones (Author), Bess Lomax Hawes (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  1987

  $28.92

  Songs and games, recorded by folklorist Bess Lomax Hawes, capture the shape and color of the crowded, impoverished, life-demanding, and life-loving days of the black family of sixty years ago, revealing the strength and vitality of African and slave traditions in black American life.