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FIELD HOLLERS

0 Hello, I don't understand very well what does mean "Field hollers" in this sentence:02br
00'... sometimes, even real live section gang convicts that Lomax would get out of state penitentiaries on passes and bring to New York to do FIELD HOLLERS in his loft (in parties or concerts)'02br
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00Thanks, Jo. 0-
  

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0 01blockquote 01cite 10Anonymous12cite 10Hello, I don't understand very well what does mean "Field hollers" in this sentence: '... 12blockquote 10"The music/poetry commonly known as rap grew out of the severely depressed South Bronx neighborhood of New York City in the late 1970s. " The field holler employs a single, repeated musical verse which sounds like a kind of yell or cry.

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  • 0 01blockquote 01cite 10Anonymous12cite 10Hello, I don't understand very well what does mean "Field hollers" in this sentence: '...
  • 12blockquote 10"The music/poetry commonly known as rap grew out of the severely depressed South Bronx neighborhood of New York City in the late 1970s.
  • " The field holler employs a single, repeated musical verse which sounds like a kind of yell or cry.
  • An answering shout or holler would then come from another field far away.
  • Slaves often sang hollers as they worked in the vast tobacco and cotton fields of the South.
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01cite10Anonymous12cite10Hello, I don't understand very well what does mean "Field hollers" in this sentence: '... sometimes, even real live section gang convicts that Lomax would get out of state penitentiaries on passes and bring to New York to do FIELD HOLLERS in his loft (in parties or concerts)' Thanks, Jo.12blockquote
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