DDEX Data Dictionary for Allowed Value Sets, 2019-09-16

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Intro

WorkSongs

A style of music sung by enslaved African-Americans and later by free manual laborers to pass the time while working, with emphasis on overlapping call-and-response between a leader singing partially improvised verses and a larger group of men responding with more static choruses.

Relationships
Parents	Traditional	Folk and court music traditions outside of North America and the British Isles.
Belongs to AVS	avs:SubGenre	A Type of SubGenre.

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