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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