Here are some YouTube links to (very short) videos of African American work songs:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ch5IWTavUc&NR=1
Negro Prison Songs / "Rosie"1947 [RARE]

monQsurlaKomod
August 08, 2008

..recorded at Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman in 1947.. ..taken from italian version'wax L.P. from 1977 ALBATROS Records..
..recorded at Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman in 1947..
..taken from italian version'wax L.P. from 1977 ALBATROS Records..

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=025QQwTwzdU&feature=related
Gandy Dancers

folkstreamer
June 23, 2008

"Musical traditions and recollections of eight retired African-American railroad track laborers whose occupational folk songs were once heard on railroads that crisscross the South."

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oms6o8m4axg&feature=channel
Work Songs in a Texas Prison

folkstreamer
July 08, 2006

"Pete and Toshi Seeger, their son Daniel, and folklorist bruce jackson visited a Texas prison in huntsville in March of 1966 and produced this rare document of worksongs by inmates of the Ellis Unit."