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NEGRO FOLK RHYMES |
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Division Class
i. Love Rhymes |
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II. Homing Instinct Rhymes |
2. Courtship Rhymes
3. Marriage Rhymes
4. Married Life Rhymes
1. Criticism and |
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III. Psycho-composite Rhymes |
Improvement |
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Rhymes |
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Under this tabulation, let us now proceed to discuss the Origin and Evolution of Negro Folk Rhymes.
Early in my discussion the reader will recall that I explained in considerable detail how the Dance Rhyme words were used in the dance. I am now ready to announce that the Dance Rhyme was derived from the dance, and to explain how the Dance Rhyme became an evolved product of the dance.
I witnessed in my early childhood the making of a few Dance Rhymes. I have forgotten the words of most of those whose individual making I witnessed but the "Jonah's Band Party" found in our collection is one whose making I distinctly recall. I shall tell in some detail of its origin because it serves in a measure to illustrate how the Dance Rhymes probably had their beginnings. First of all be it known that there was a "step" in dancing, orig-
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