sj | ||
|
User Name | Thread Name | Subject | Posted |
GUEST,Joseph Scott (19 Feb 2015) | Slave Songs - What Are They Called??? (28) | RE: Slave Songs - What Are They Called??? | 21 Feb 15 |
"'Field hollers,' of course, refers to Afro-American songs that were sung while doing agricultural work." "Field hollers" refers to "hollers" that were sung in fields. "The holler is a way of singing -- free, gliding from a sustained high note down to the lowest register the singer can reach, often ending there in a grunt. It is marked by spontaneous and unpredictable changes in rhythm." -- John and Alan Lomax, 1936. |