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  "id": "parchman_prison_song",
  "name": "Parchman prison work song",
  "family": "global",
  "lineage": "Mississippi State Penitentiary (Parchman Farm) Black prison-labor work-song tradition documented by John A. Lomax and Alan Lomax for the Library of Congress in their 1933-onward Southern field recordings — captured the antiphonal call-and-response work-song tradition (the lead-singer call answered by the gang chorus, synchronized to the axe-stroke or hoe-stroke timing) that preserved African polyrhythmic vocal practice in the most brutal post-Reconstruction prison-labor context; figures Leadbelly (Huddie Ledbetter, recorded at Angola Louisiana State Penitentiary 1933 by John Lomax), the broader Parchman prison-farm corpus continuing through Alan Lomaxs 1959 and 1968 return recordings",
  "recipe": "classic Midwestern American modern parchman prison work song, ballad Poetry, prison song branch, christian gospel black gospel gospel singers. thick, breath veiled tone, wide pitch sway, leader call answered. a cappella small 3 to 8 one per part call response single leader group response sub saharan call response ostinato polyrhythmic sacred liturgical global choir ensemble. us dustbowl outdoor woody guthrie. small-diaphragm pencil condenser, portable field-recorder pre. tape 15ips.",
  "recipe_chars": 487,
  "score": 231.12,
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      "parchman_prison_song",
      "gospel_singers",
      "black_gospel_choir"
    ],
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          "voice_effort": "effort_moderate",
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          "voice_microtone": "maqam_inflected",
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          "voice_mechanism_compound": "voice_mechanism_M0_pulse_borrowed",
          "voice_estill_quality": "voice_estill_belt",
          "voice_speech_song": "voice_sprechgesang_notated",
          "voice_ensemble_config": "voice_ensemble_call_response_leader_group",
          "voice_ornament_system": "voice_ornament_quranic_tajwid",
          "voice_pitch_organization": "voice_pitch_equal_tempered_12",
          "voice_processing_chain": "voice_processing_melodyne_microtuned",
          "voice_multitrack_stack": "voice_multitrack_2010s_melodyne_microtuned"
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          "voice_estill_quality": 21.475,
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      },
      {
        "id": "choir_ensemble",
        "slots": {
          "choir_size": "a_cappella_small_ensemble_3_8",
          "choir_polyphonic_configuration": "choir_polyphony_call_response_leader_group",
          "choir_regional_canonical_configuration": "choir_regional_sub_saharan_call_response_ostinato",
          "choir_ensemble_repertoire": "choir_ensemble_sacred_global"
        },
        "scores": {
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      }
    ],
    "room": "us_dustbowl_outdoor_woody_guthrie",
    "archetype": "arch_nagra_ethnographic_field",
    "inline_chain": {
      "mic": "condenser_sdc",
      "pre": "pre_field_recorder_portable",
      "console": "clean",
      "comp": null,
      "eq": null,
      "amp": null,
      "medium": "shellac_78"
    },
    "tuning": "just_intonation",
    "aesthetic": null,
    "arrangement": null,
    "fx_extras": []
  },
  "source": {
    "tuning": "just_intonation",
    "room": "us_dustbowl_outdoor_woody_guthrie",
    "parts": {
      "voice_register": "chest_voice",
      "voice_quality": "blues_shouter_voice",
      "voice_speech_song": "voice_neumatic_singing",
      "voice_tradition": "gospel_pentecostal_tradition",
      "voice_pitch_organization": "voice_pitch_just_intonation",
      "voice_processing_chain": "voice_processing_unprocessed",
      "voice_ensemble_config": "voice_ensemble_solo_accompanied",
      "voice_multitrack_stack": "voice_multitrack_single_lead",
      "voice_microtone": "tempered_voice",
      "voice_ornament_system": "voice_ornament_none",
      "voice_estill_quality": "voice_estill_belt",
      "voice_vibrato": "straight_tone",
      "voice_mechanism_compound": "voice_mechanism_single_source",
      "choir_size": "chamber_choir",
      "choir_ensemble_repertoire": "choir_ensemble_global_traditional"
    },
    "chain_mic": "condenser_sdc",
    "chain_pre": "pre_field_recorder_portable",
    "chain_medium": "shellac_78",
    "chain_console": "clean"
  }
}