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Fifes were carved from Cane that grew locally. Drums were often hand-made, and equally often just Percussive objects. The vocals seem to derive from two main styles: # Traditional Call And Response of Black Spirituals # Short repetative Lyric The genre originates in very Rural areas of the Farming South and today persists in a stretch of sparely populated Southern States stretching from northwest Georgia to an area south of Memphis . Notable performers are Napoleon Strickland , Dan Emmett , and Otha Turner . RELATED TEXTS # David Evans, "Black Fife and Drum Music in Mississippi" # Howard W. Odum, "Religious Folk-Songs of the Southern Negro" # Eileen Southern "The Music of Black Americans: A History" # http://www.folkstreams.net/context,86 SEE ALSO Ancient Fife And Drum Corps |
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