Alan Lomax Archive | 24 - Shouts on the Threshing Floor: Work Songs @AlanLomaxArchive | Uploaded October 2024 | Updated October 2024, 1 day ago.
A survey of work songs from around the world, recorded by Alan and John A. Lomax. We narrow the definition of work song to mean specifically those sung to assist in or accompany actual jobs of work.






Visit our brand new work song exhibit here (archive.culturalequity.org/work-songs) .






Playlist (links to catalog records in the Lomax Digital Archive when available):






1a Alla Boara


1b A Mezzononte en Punto


2 Walter Brown on Privileged Penitentiary


archive.culturalequity.org/film-and-video/american-patchwork/greenville-levee-1978


3 Levee Camp Hollers


archive.culturalequity.org/field-work/mississippi-delta-survey-1941-1942/lake-cormorant-941/levee-camp-hollers


4a Track Lining Song and Talk archive.culturalequity.org/node/1689


4b Dogging Steel archive.culturalequity.org/field-work/southern-us-1959-and-1960/williamson-959/dogging-steel-part-1


4c Sis Joe archive.culturalequity.org/field-work/mississippi-1933-1940/parchman-farm-833/sis-joe


5 Houston Bacon Sinking and Joining Iron archive.culturalequity.org/field-work/mississippi-delta-survey-1941-1942/clarksdale-842/sinking-rails-and-joining-iron


6a Di Yo Pa Hele archive.culturalequity.org/field-work/caribbean-1962/la-plaine-ii-662/di-yo-pa-hele-pou-nou


6b Naje Kanot-la archive.culturalequity.org/field-work/caribbean-1962/scotts-head-662/naje-kanot-la


7a Dekouwe bwa-la archive.culturalequity.org/field-work/caribbean-1962/la-plaine-ii-662/dekouwe-bwa-la


7b Clyde Maxwell wood chopping archive.culturalequity.org/film-and-video/american-patchwork/clyde-maxwells-wood-chopping-holler-1-1978


7c John Bray Cypress Logging


8 Winnowing songs


archive.culturalequity.org/field-work/morocco-1967/tazzarine-967/winnowing-song-i & archive.culturalequity.org/field-work/morocco-1967/tazzarine-967/winnowing-song-ii (archive.culturalequity.org/field-work/morocco-1967/tazzarine-967/winnowing-song-ii)


8b Shouts on the threshing floor archive.culturalequity.org/field-work/morocco-1967/tazzarine-967/shouts-threshing-floor


8c Unidentified Threshing Song


archive.culturalequity.org/field-work/spain-1952-1953/valldemossa-752/unidentified-threshing-song-i


9a I Like Picking Olives archive.culturalequity.org/field-work/spain-1952-1953/valldemossa-752/magrada-collir-oliva


9b Bentara Noa archive.culturalequity.org/field-work/spain-1952-1953/uitzi-1252/bentara-noa


9c Larre Berrian archive.culturalequity.org/field-work/spain-1952-1953/uitzi-1252/larre-berrian-i


10a Warning Cry 


archive.culturalequity.org/field-work/spain-1952-1953/alan-lomax-inspecting-recording-machine-marble-quarry


11b O’s Toils archive.culturalequity.org/field-work/scotland-1951-1958/garrygall-851/o-s-toil-s-ro-thoil-liom-i-i-very-much-desire


12a O’s Fhada archive.culturalequity.org/field-work/scotland-1951-1958/garrygall-651/o-s-fhada-bhuainn-anna-far-away-us-anna


12b Oganach archive.culturalequity.org/field-work/scotland-1951-1958/balivanich-651/oganach-gun-toir-na-dheaghaidh-young-man-whom-no-one-0


12c An Cuala archive.culturalequity.org/field-work/scotland-1951-1958/balivanich-651/cuala-sibh-man-mhaighdean-cheutach-have-you-heard