Candjo / photograph of a vintage 1885 engraving by Edward Winsor Kemble (1861-1933) / from &am
Candjo / photograph of a vintage 1885 engraving by Edward Winsor Kemble (1861-1933) / from “Creole Slave Songs” by George W. Cable (1844-1925) / A “candjo” is a Creole born Chief - “The ‘Criole Candjo’ … is sort of a [black] Creole dandy who charms and cajoles women by his dancing- what the French would call 'un beau valseur’” (from Henry Edward Krehbiel’s 1914 Afro-American folksongs : a study in racial and national music) Originally Posted: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mamluke/4534329963/ -- source link
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