Field holler
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The field holler or field call is mostly a historical type or figure of vocal work song sung by field slaves in the United States to accompany their tasked work, to communicate usefully, or to vent fe
Chain gang singing in South Carolina
Picking cotton in a cotton field
Blues
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Blues is a music genre and musical form that originated among African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Blues has incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, s
Field holler
…the call and response of work songs and arhoolies. The Afro-American music form ultimately influenced strands of African American music, such as the blues and thereby rhythm and blues, as well as negro spirituals. There had also been some instances where some white oat farmers in close proximity to black…
American blues singer Ma Rainey (1886–1939), the "Mother of the Blues"
Musicologist John Lomax (left) shaking hands with musician "Uncle" Rich Brown in Sumterville, Alabama
Sheet music from "Saint Louis Blues" (1914)
Bessie Smith, an early blues singer, known for her powerful voice