LABRST 2M03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Songline, Major Force, Industrial Workers Of The World
1 Dec 2017
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3) songs about poverty and broader social conditions. 4) songs for the labour movement about labour organizing work. Generally, there are four types of songs relate to work: Gioia argues that the relationship between music and work is longstanding and the music serves many functions. Traditionally, work songs were used to keep a beat, maintain a work-rhythm, and coordinate complex tasks between many workers or across distances. Music has been a means for workers to maintain hope, inspiration, or a way of ensuring survival under hard conditions. Music has been both a means of resistance in the workplace, as well as a way of co opting and pacifying labour. Way of information sharing among indigenous peoples. Navajo corn grinding song - it helped coordinate their activity. Pearl divers (arabian/persian gulf) - served as a prayer for the safety of the divers, drums and instruments help guide the divers, also entertain divers.
