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Meaning of "work songs"

work songs: songs traditionally sung by workers to accompany and boost productivity during work, often associated with specific occupations or cultural traditions
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In work songs male female division is there.
These songs are reminiscent of the work songs.
Work songs are among the oldest forms of folklore.
Improvisations or work songs never finished.
Work songs are widespread in all regions.
Repetitive songs are also found in traditional work songs.
Work songs are also common in harvests and or task forces.
Some spirituals were adapted as work songs.
Shanties are work songs and were originally sung only for work.
It is a collection of chain gang work songs.
Many work songs served to create connection and familiarity between workers.
Milling songs are among the oldest work songs.
These songs are reminiscent of the work songs sung on the plantations by my people.
He also added prisoner songs and modern work songs.
Corn was a very common subject of work songs on a typical plantation.

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Many different groups throughout history have sung work songs.
These work songs were sung in time with the movement involved in hard labour.
Here is a contribution to fill some of that gap with this discussion about work songs.
Most of the literature about work songs is seeking to record and preserve authentic manifestations.
Maloya has a strong African element reflected in the use of slave chants and work songs.
The usage of verses in work songs were sometimes improvised and sung differently each time.
The live music echoes Vietnamese Southern work songs.
Women primarily sang work songs associated with daily activities such as wheat grinding and cooking.
And before emancipation, sung as spirituals and work songs.
Work songs are a common type of traditional Nigerian music.
Perhaps surprisingly, there are very few examples of work songs linked to cotton picking.
Agricultural work songs were once also very common, but are threatened with extinction.
And this was the music of the second generation of slaves, their work songs.
And before emancipation, sung as spirituals and work songs on plantations across the American South.
African-American Women Work Songs incorporate the call and response format, a format that fosters dialogue.
For example, consider work songs.
Mi canto trabajador, work songs of Latin America in Spanish.
Have a little patience. Work Songs.
This also built a feeling of community, from work songs to lullabies, nonsense, and story songs.
In autumn 2014 Kringkastingsorkesteret premiered the commissioned work Songs for Orchestra.
Streamed these Men At Work songs in the last 30 days:.
They weren't work songs.
However, non-English-language sailor work songs were also developed.

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