Work Song

A work song is a piece of music closely connected to a specific form of work, either sung while conducting a task (often to coordinate timing) or a song linked to a task or trade which might be a connected narrative, description, or protest song.

Read more about Work Song:  Definitions and Categories, Hunting and Pastoral Songs, Agricultural Work Songs, African American Work Songs, Sea Shanties, Cowboy Songs, Industrial Folk Song

Famous quotes containing the words work and/or song:

    “He does not go to the dictionary, the word-book, but to the word-manufactory itself, and has made endless work for the lexicographers.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “I shall not sing a May song.
    A May song should be gay.
    I’ll wait until November
    And sing a song of gray.”
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)