@Nayelle1290 Prisons are still used to generate profits, it's called the "prison industrial complex", the short of it is that the government gives corporations money to house it's prisoners. I could open up a prison if I had enough money and that's a pretty huge problem.
@Nayelle1290 4 men cutting a tree have a hard time surviving if they fall out of rhythm, so they are indeed singing to survive. Culture isn't genetic and those songs that were sung in Africa were long dead in 1960's America.
The songs here made time go quicker, made the singers not get cut to pieces and generally made life less shitty on a fucking work field. Perhaps we can agree that these songs made survival EASIER.
I grew up with Alan Lomax's "Negro Prison Blues" Murderers Home etc. I'm not sure how I found it. In those days, I only had a few records - Joni Mitchell Blue, Mississippi John Hurt, Billie Holliday and Nina Simone and a few others - that music made me. I used to sing these songs when I sewed and worked all by myself - and you can still find their voices in mine.
Blunt axes
mrallcz 2 days ago
Negro Prison songs. Great.
mrallcz 2 days ago
this inspired little richard to write the famous song "piano riff TIMBER!"
garbage411 2 months ago
Could you just imagine how ripped these men are from hard labor 6 days a week?
SpaseGoast 2 months ago
@Nayelle1290 Prisons are still used to generate profits, it's called the "prison industrial complex", the short of it is that the government gives corporations money to house it's prisoners. I could open up a prison if I had enough money and that's a pretty huge problem.
harryit 4 months ago in playlist harryit's favorites 5
@Nayelle1290 4 men cutting a tree have a hard time surviving if they fall out of rhythm, so they are indeed singing to survive. Culture isn't genetic and those songs that were sung in Africa were long dead in 1960's America.
The songs here made time go quicker, made the singers not get cut to pieces and generally made life less shitty on a fucking work field. Perhaps we can agree that these songs made survival EASIER.
harryit 4 months ago in playlist harryit's favorites
@harryit I 100% agree.
peacexisxfree 3 months ago
Any idea when this film was made? Other than the reference to Director of Prisons George Beto, whose tenure ended in 1972, it's hard to tell.
MochniTalkingBird 5 months ago
American History............
crmsnsrpnt 1 year ago 4
I grew up with Alan Lomax's "Negro Prison Blues" Murderers Home etc. I'm not sure how I found it. In those days, I only had a few records - Joni Mitchell Blue, Mississippi John Hurt, Billie Holliday and Nina Simone and a few others - that music made me. I used to sing these songs when I sewed and worked all by myself - and you can still find their voices in mine.
jenniewilliamsmural 1 year ago
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SuperJsms 1 year ago