Alan Lomax Recordings - Levee Camp Holler

Alan Lomax Recordings
Song Name: Levee Camp Holler
By: Alan Lomax Recordings
Song Local Name: Not available
Album: Negro Prison Blues and Songs (Alan Lomex Collection)
Link to buy: Not available
Genre: folk music of the United States , Mississippi , Louisiana , American root music , early blues , Alan Lomex
Date Added: 30 Oct 2016
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Alan Lomex started to record African-American slaves' music in South in early 30's, including working songs and prison songs. Black slaves and workers were singing songs while building the levees in the Mississippi Valley.
This song, recorded in these working camps in 1947, is the product of ex-slaves who worked moving earth all day in post-Civil War America. It has similarities to the call of prayer of Islam, Adhan (Azan). Some scholars believe that this way of singing was brought by Muslim African slaves of North-West Africa to America.

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