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Journal Article
A \Cipher Language\
2019
Overview
The first known study of the black musical form of call-and-response and its immense significance in African American oral and literary practices is \"A Study in Negro Folk Rhymes\" by Thomas W. Talley (1870-1952) in his book Negro Folk Rhymes Wise and Otherwise: With A Study (1922), a collection of black secular folksongs, unquestionably the first such compilation by a black scholar. Belonging to collections on black music and poetry published during the Harlem Renaissance or New Negro Movement,1 Talley and his text do not appear in studies about the period. They are absent from The Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance (2004) and Harlem Renaissance Lives (2009), two compendiums about the era. Moreover, studies of antiphony in African American oral and literary discourses fail to credit Talley's pioneering work. Two anthologies on the subject, Call & Response (1998) and Call and Response (2011), and a study of the form in African American fiction, Call-and-Response in Twentieth-Century Black Fiction (1988, 2001), fail to acknowledge Talley's \"Study.\" It is unmentioned in works on black poetics and prosody.2 Indeed, Talley's book has been so thoroughly ignored that it is currently listed on the Forgotten Books website.3 Although this listing does not necessarily imply scholarly neglect, it is useful to note how major scholarly bibliographies, for example the MLA Bibliography, also demonstrate the range of scholarship that fails to acknowledge or discuss Talley.4 The neglect of this central text in the black oral and literary traditions deserves examination.
