From Waulking to Railways: Make the Connection

Call and response singing is common in Hebridean work songs, like waulking (pounding tweed cloth) or boatsmen's songs.

Can you see a connection with railways in the American deep south, though?

Read the latest Bibliolore blogpost on Gandy dancers!

(Whittaker loves making connections between apparently disconnected phenomena!)

Gandy Dancers - RILM's blog image

 

Waulking - from harristweed.org website