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1) The document provides excerpts from recordings of folk music and calls from railroad, riverboat, and agricultural work collected in the southern United States between 1939-1940. 2) It includes songs, calls, and chants for tasks like unloading rails, tamping ties, heaving the lead line on a riverboat, sounding depths, and mealtime and quitting time songs. 3) The recordings were made by scholars John A. Lomax, Alan Lomax, Ruby T. Lomax, Herbert Halpert to document authentic folk music and language as p
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