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HOLLERS |
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HOLLERS |
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"All
I can say is that when I was boy we was always singing in the fields. Not
real singing, you know, just hollering. But we made up our songs about
things that were happening to us at the time, and I think that's where
the blues started."
quoted
from Son House at
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Learn more about hollers online: |
| The website presents the definition, example, and recording of field hollers |
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singer
Bama in his prisoners uniform
photo: The Land Where the Blues Began by Alan Lomax [New York: Pantheon, 1993] |
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| List of hollers: | |||
| 6. | Louisiana | the song | Henry Ratcliff |
| 7. | Levee Camp Holler | the song | Bama |
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