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ysabetwordsmith ([personal profile] ysabetwordsmith) wrote 2018-01-19 06:10 am (UTC)

Re: Well ...

Honestly, worksongs will crop up anywhere you have people doing a lot of work. I've heard it happen. The challenge is that now, people don't know all the same songs, unless they work together regularly or they share a common background.

Some cultures have kept it up more than others, though. Agricultural workers in the South, if black, often know and use some of the cotton calls or other field songs. Shanteys on the docks. *laugh* And you put Native Americans together anywhere, they will sing, and they'll find something to bang for a drum. I saw one video from a lacrosse locker room where someone started chanting, they all joined in, someone else grabbed a bucket to turn over and a minute later a bunch of them were drumming on it. <3 community.

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