Chain Gang- prison songs recorded by Pete Seeger; dubs of Songs for PAC album
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: FW-ASCH-7RR-1512
label: General
content: CDR copy--Recorded by Pete & Toshi Seeger in the winter of 1951 at two Texas prison farms, this album represents some of the oldest and most traditional work songs found among African American prison communities in the southern United States. Traditionally a participatory art form, these songs were typically sung while groups of 10-30 prisoners performed tasks such as chopping and hoeing. With origins reaching back to their West African ancestry as well as during the era of African American slavery, work songs served the purpose of alleviating the mundane nature of repetitive tasks as well as providing a forum for the song leader to keep the group together through rhythms and lyrics. Pete Seeger narrates and dubs various songs from 78s.
name: label: Recorder
content: Seeger, Pete, 1919-2014
label: Recorder
content: Seeger, Toshi
label: Collection Creator
content: Asch, Moses
label: Collection Creator
content: Distler, Marian, 1919-1964
label: Collection Creator
content: Folkways Records
place: label: Place
content: Texas
label: Place
content: United States
topic: label: Topic
content: Folk songs -- United States
label: Topic
content: Prisoners' songs
label: Topic
content: Work
label: Topic
content: Prisons
label: Topic
content: African Americans
creator: label: Recorder
content: Seeger, Pete, 1919-2014
label: Recorder
content: Seeger, Toshi
culture: label: Culture
content: Americans
setName: label: See more items in
content: Moses and Frances Asch Collection
label: See more items in
content: Moses and Frances Asch Collection / Series 9: Audio Recordings / CD / CDR copy
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Sound recording (sound-tape reel, analog, 7 in.)
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
identifier: label: Identifier
content: CFCH.ASCH, Item FW-ASCH-7RR-1512
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
scopecontent: label: Contents
content: Wings of Harmony--Rough and rocky road--Southern prayer--Calvary--Over there; --Job (on My way to Cannan's land)--Wasn't that a time; Jesse McKinney--In the wilderness--You don't treat me right; Pete Seeger--Cumberland Mountain bear chase---Midnight Special; --- Dubs of Songs for PAC album-- Pete Seeger and others--A doillar ain't a dollar--Voting union--Get out and vote--Dollar for PAC--Oh what congress did to me--4 nursery rhymes--No No No discrimination--Oh Walter Oh walter--DDT--Fare thee well congressmen; Shep Ginades--Its sister Jenny's turn to throw the bomb; Weavers--Clementine--True love (Papers and pins)--Taking it easy--Pinone