Qingpu Field Songs - Chinaculture.org
2024年11月29日 · As the names indicate, Qingpu field songs are sung while people are laboring in the fields, such as plowing, transplanting rice seedlings, or weeding. Based on the Wuyue culture, the field songs fall into three types: traditional songs, improvisational and new folk songs.
Traditional Work Songs | Traditional and Ethnic | Musical Styles ...
Traditional Work Songs. In traditional cultures around the world, work is often accompanied by song. Americans have developed work songs for many occupations, from agricultural jobs like picking cotton, to industrial ones, like driving railroad spikes.
Ozark Folksongs and Ballads - Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
The songs selected here have a mix of American and English origins, including Child ballads in their Ozark versions, broadsides, and Western outlaw songs, expressively sung and skillfully played without any sort of patronizing mimicry.
African Music - Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
This collection of field recordings made by ethnomusicologist Laura C. Boulton was originally issued in 1957 on Folkways Records. Recorded by Boulton during one of her expeditions to Central and West Africa, it provides a glimpse of traditional music from Sudan, Benin, Cameroon, Liberia, Mali, and …
West Virginia and Regional History Center | Folk Music
The West Virginia and Regional History Center possesses the finest collection of early field recordings of folk music in existence. The earliest recordings date back to the 1930s and 1940s when field sound recording was in its infancy.
UNESCO Collection of Traditional Music - Smithsonian Folkways …
With recordings from more than 70 nations, the UNESCO Collection of Traditional Music offers a staggering diversity of our shared humanity. Much of the collection was gathered in situ and is presented as field recordings. Extensive annotations and photographs accompany each release.
The North American Traditions Collection - Field Recorders Collective
Styles within the NAT collection range from unaccompanied ballads to vocal quartets; virtuoso fiddle solos to string bands; blues to gospel to topical songs. The FRC and the NAT Group are proud to present the 15-volume Survey of Traditional …
African American Field Hollers and Work Songs
During the 1600s-1700’s African American slaves had many ways of expressing their toil and pain through song and hollering which manifested into the concept of field hollers and work songs. Slaves included body, rhythm, and songs when completing daily tasks.
Field Songs - FolkWorks
2024年4月28日 · These improvised songs, known as work songs, field calls (also field hollers) and street calls (also street cries) served many functions. Singing passed the time, coordinated the movements of workers and offered encouragement.
Qingpu Field Songs - visitbeijing.com.cn
2015年8月17日 · Based on the Wuyue culture, the field songs fall into three types: traditional songs, improvisational and new folk songs. They have their own particular singing style, and are composed of eight parts. Usually loud and clear, the field songs have undulating melodies, with a difference of one octave between the high and the low tunes.