LABRST 2M03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Sharecropping
18 Jun 2018
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SOUNDING OUT THE WORKPLACE: FROM THE DE-
PRESSION ERA TO THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
(1930s –1960s)
LSQ— w reference to readings and weekly playlist dos music form, this period
speak in any way to our lives today? why do you believe it does or doesnt?
-back then didnt have outside experience
-music lost a lot of power but v relevant to social justice
Work songs: rhythm of labour
-4 types of songs:
•sun while working
•about work and working conditions
•about poverty and broad social conditions
•for labour movement about organizing
-listen to while at work or to escape from work
Example of work songs —
-Indigenous Songlines (australia)
•build map and promote sustainability, transmit knowledge
-Navajo Corn Grinding Song
•maintain rhythm
-Walking Wool (scotland)
•one women begins the city and others join in-> Call & Response Pattern which is typical for
work songs
-Pearl Divers (arabian/persian gulf)
•partially spiritual to pray for divers, if could hear while diving it means safe distance,
helped retain the divers when they were on deck and recovering their breathe and relax
•functional and spiritual
Document Summary
Pression era to the civil rights movement (1930s 1960s) Music lost a lot of power but v relevant to social justice. 4 types of songs: sun while working, about work and working conditions, about poverty and broad social conditions, for labour movement about organizing. Listen to while at work or to escape from work. Indigenous songlines (australia: build map and promote sustainability, transmit knowledge. Navajo corn grinding song: maintain rhythm. Walking wool (scotland: one women begins the city and others join in-> call & response pattern which is typical for work songs. Pearl divers (arabian/persian gulf: partially spiritual to pray for divers, if could hear while diving it means safe distance, helped retain the divers when they were on deck and recovering their breathe and relax, functional and spiritual. Rowers on the yangtze river (china: variation for rhythm in work process, slow then speed then slow, functional. Digging songs (jamaica: functional to oppression.
