{"id":1103,"date":"2013-06-08T16:42:56","date_gmt":"2013-06-08T16:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quiliby.com\/all\/?p=1103"},"modified":"2013-06-08T16:43:16","modified_gmt":"2013-06-08T16:43:16","slug":"gandy-dancers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quiliby.com\/all\/gandy-dancers.html","title":{"rendered":"Gandy dancers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Posted in <em>Bibliolore<\/em>, May 31, 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7469\" alt=\"gandy dancers\" src=\"http:\/\/rilm.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/05\/gandy-dancers.jpg?w=500&amp;h=334\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Before the 1950s, all railroad tracks in the U.S. were laid and maintained by hand labor. In the segregated South, this work was mainly done by black men.<\/p>\n<p>The section crews responsible for maintaining the tracks were sometimes known as <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gandy_dancer\"><i>gandy dancers<\/i><\/a>, probably because of the coordinated rhythmic movements required for repositioning tracks that had become misaligned. They synchronized their movements with call-and-response singing of improvised couplets and stock refrains.<\/p>\n<p>The tradition is documented in <i>Gandy dancers<\/i> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.folkstreams.net\/filmmaker,132\">Maggie Holtzberg<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.folkstreams.net\/filmmaker,97\">Barry Dornfeld<\/a> (Cinema Guild, 1994). Below, the trailer for the film; the complete\u00a030-minute film can be viewed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.folkstreams.net\/film,101\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><div class='jwplayer' id='jwplayer-0'><\/div><script type='text\/javascript'>if(typeof(jQuery)==\"function\"){(function($){$.fn.fitVids=function(){}})(jQuery)};jwplayer('jwplayer-0').setup({\"file\":\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/025QQwTwzdU\"});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>For the original post: <a href=\"http:\/\/bibliolore.org\/2013\/05\/31\/gandy-dancers\/\">Gandy dancers | Bibliolore<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted in Bibliolore, May 31, 2013 Before the 1950s, all railroad tracks in the U.S. were laid and maintained by hand labor. In the segregated South, this work was mainly done by black men. The section crews responsible for maintaining the tracks were sometimes known as gandy dancers, probably because of the coordinated rhythmic movements [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[197,371],"class_list":["post-1103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-african-american-music-and-culture","tag-gandy-dancers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4zx0X-hN","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quiliby.com\/all\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quiliby.com\/all\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quiliby.com\/all\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quiliby.com\/all\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quiliby.com\/all\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1103"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.quiliby.com\/all\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1108,"href":"https:\/\/www.quiliby.com\/all\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103\/revisions\/1108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quiliby.com\/all\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quiliby.com\/all\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quiliby.com\/all\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}