Pérez also worked with some companies advertising writing and producing songs for their ads.
Slaves brought with them work songs, religious music and dance, and a wide variety of instruments, including kalimba, xylophone, flutes and rattles.
Field Holler is a type of vocal musical creation closely related to work songs.
He remains working, remixing classics as well as new songs, and has two releases forthcoming in 2012.
Most of the groups worked Dead songs into their sets, drawing waves of applause and sing-alongs.
Together, they worked on the eleven songs that were featured on Lovestrong.
In the ordinariness of the galley she sang while she worked, cheerful songs from unpretentious corners of Earth.
The band also said they were working on "12 or 13" new songs.
Diboué kept working and writing songs.
The hammer songs (or work songs) associated with the "John Henry" ballad, however, are not.