- Fife and drum blues
Fife and drum blues is a rural derivation of traditional
country blues . It is performed typically with one lead fife player often also the band leader andvocalist , and a troop ofdrum mers. Unlike adrum corps , the drum troop is loosely structured. As such, a fife and drum band may have any number ofsnare , tom, andbass drum players. Fife and drum performances werefamily affairs often held at reunions and bigpicnic s. It is suggested by most texts that it has roots not in theAmerican Revolutionary War , but actually inAfrica ; the use of fife is merely a replacement for instruments the slaves had used in Africa.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:
# Traditionalcall and response of BlackSpirituals
# Short, repetitivelyrics The genre originates in very
rural areas of thefarming South and today persists in a stretch of sparsely populatedSouthern states stretching from northwest Georgia to an area south of Memphis. Notable performers areNapoleon Strickland ,Dan Emmett ,Othar Turner , andJessie Mae Hemphill . Performers play blues songs as well as religious songs such as "When the Saints Go Marching In" and "When I Lay My Burden Down."ee also
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Othar Turner
*Ancient Fife and Drum Corps
*Joe Hicks
*Excelsior Brigade Fife and Drum Corps
*Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps
*Napoleon Strickland Further viewing
*"American Patchwork: Songs and Stories of America", part 3: "The Land Where the Blues Began" (1990). Written, directed, and produced by Alan Lomax; developed by the Association for Cultural Equity at Columbia University and Hunter College. North Carolina Public TV; A Dibb Direction production for Channel Four. (Watch film: [http://www.folkstreams.net/film,109 The Land Where the Blues Began] )
*"Deep Blues" (1991). Directed byRobert Mugge .
*"Gravel Springs Fife and Drum" (1971). Filmed by Bill Ferris, recorded by David Evans, and edited by Judy Peiser. (Watch film: [http://www.folkstreams.net/film,59 Gravel Springs Fife and Drum]Further reading
# 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 http://www.folkstreams.net/context,86]
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