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Carl Sandburg often traveled the U.S. as a writer and a poet. He additionally collected songs in his travels and, in 1927, printed them within the guide The American Songbag. Work songs frequently feature name and response constructions and are designed to enable the laborers who sing them to coordinate their efforts in accordance with the rhythms of the songs. In the American armed forces, a energetic oral custom preserves jody calls (“Duckworth chants”) that are sung whereas troopers are on the march.

Professional sailors made related use of a large physique of sea shanties. Love poetry, typically of a tragic or regretful nature, prominently figures in many folk traditions. Nursery rhymes and nonsense verse used to amuse or quiet kids are also frequent subjects of traditional songs. Hymns and other forms of spiritual music are often of traditional and unknown origin. Western musical notation was originally created to protect … Read More