[Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Work Song"

[Shapiro, Fred]

work song (OED 1911)

1875 Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Va.) 16 June ¾ (Newspapers.com)

The essay on "Old-Time Music," interspersed with illustrations of the "old slave songs," rendered by the famous "Hampton Singers," was admirable, and the effect on the audience electric.  The essayist divided these old songs into "spiritual," "work songs," and "comic songs."

Fred Shapiro

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