Books by Bess Lomax Hawes

Growing up in the rural South, Bessie Jones sang her way through long hours of field work and child tending. These songs and games, recorded in Step It Down by folklorist Bess Lomax Hawes, capture the shape and colour of the crowded, impoverished, life-demanding, and life-loving days of the black family of sixty years ago.

The personal account of a giant in American folklore and folk music