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From Ray's haunting field holler "Looky, Looky Yonder" to Koerner's explosive picking on "You've Got to Be Careful" to Glover's lyric, bending mouth harp on "Packin' Trunk," this is an album of remarkable breadth, much more than the sum of its parts.--T.D.

Although now living in Memphis, Hart remains the embodiment of the rustic Delta troubadour, singing with an expressive field holler, switching between two battered-looking guitars, one with a steel body, scuffed into dullness through years of percussive strumming.

She uses blues, field hollers and gospels paired with civilian gestures to help validate the strife and struggle of modern-day African-Americans.

co.uk Jazz & roots TODAY Heritage Blues Orchestra New York-based blues collective draw on field hollers and work songs, as well as their own original tunes.

They also employed "field hollers" to communicate with their fellow workers and to encourage each others labor.

Then African American slaves and their descendants found a voice for their faith and hope in the spirituals, work songs, field hollers, and chants that became the sounds of gospel, blues, and jazz.

The music is highly influenced by the period--the score has field hollers, rags and spirituals.

From syncopated work songs and field hollers of the 19th century through the birth of American jazz and onto the urbane sounds of Motown, rock 'n' roll owes its largest debt to the musical traditions of the African diaspora and demographic shifts caused by World War II.

Evidently influenced by the field hollers and chants of the Mississippi delta and the haunting lyricism of New Orleans' own Mahalia Jackson, McComb's opening number Sit Down Servant, found her ensconced at the 9ft Steinway grand piano where she produced evocative chords which buoyed a sonorous, incantatory vocal authority.

The authors Shane White and Graham White, who are historians at the University of Sydney, Australia, and are not related, mine the rich culture not only of singing and instruments, both religious and secular, but also of the preaching, whistling, field hollers, folk telling, oration and other chords in the "soundscape" of life under slavery.

The film also gives a brief history lesson for the jazz novice, showing the roots of jazz in African rhythms, improvisation and black field hollers, as well as in blues and ragtime music.

For this reason, as well as others, numerous vocal expressions of social outcries (a.k.a., field hollers or field cries) became commonplace and, as a result, permeated the social structure of African American culture, and thus led to the establishment of certain practices that became vital to a successful performance of solo-style singing.