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Also songs used when people needed to work in rhythm. Many are familiar folk songs. Like --sea chanteys where the lead singer's solo line would get everyone set, and then they'd all sing (and therefore exhale) when they put out their effort pulling on a line. -- field hollers that were used to keep lines hoeing a field up with each other. (And field hollers, speeded up and with some rhythm and some guitar added, might have been one of the origins of the blues, and thus of most American popular music since 1920) -- capstan chanteys that kept people [pretty much] walking in the same rhythm while they turned giant cranks. Very often work songs were subversive, making fun of the boss, complaining about the conditions, and sometimes carrying [instructions] for prison breaks, union organizing, or the [Underground Railroad].
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