Moving on from African traditions, Here's an article about African American traditions published in 1930, thus entering the public domain on January 1 2026:
Dance Songs and Tales from the Bahamas
by Zora Neale Hurston
(from the Journal of American Folklore)
Internet Archive
This article contains 11 songs with lyrics and musical transcription, plus 20 folktales. Here is a photo of Hurston playing the drums while in the Bahamas (from Library of Congress):
