Abstract
EDITOR's NOTE: Dr. Johnson has been doing research work at the University of North Carolina for the past four years. In collaboration with Dr. Howard W. Odum he has published two books,* The Negro and His Songs and Negro Workaday Songs. H!s book entitled, John Henry, a Negro Legend and Ballad will be published this fall. * * * The article which is printed below will interest Music Supervisors both for the material it provides on the oft discussed question of the relative musical abilities of negroes and whites and for the suggestions it will provide for studies which we must more and more make of aspects of our music instruction-such, for instance, as the relation of nationality to music talent. As Dr. Johnson points out the Seashore tests do not give conclusive answers to our queries, but, when properly administered and interpreted, they can quickly and accurately provide valuable information which otherwise can be obtained only slowly and clumsily.-P. W. D.
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