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Sep 7, 2022 · A "Gandy Dancer" was a person who kept railroad tracks in line before there was machinery to do the job. One crew member sang songs with rhythms that coordinated the...
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Jun 23, 2008 · Gandy Dancers. Musical traditions and recollections of eight retired African-American railroad track laborers whose occupational folk songs were once heard on railroads that crisscross the...
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Gandy dancer is a slang term used for early railroad workers in the United States, more formally referred to as "section hands", who laid and maintained railroad tracks in the years before...
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Jun 6, 2023 · The gandy dancer was a slang term used to describe section gangs, railroad men who performed the physical task of the tracks maintained.
Gandy dancer is a slang term used for early railroad workers in the United States, more formally referred to as section hands, who laid and maintained railroad tracks in the years before the work was done by machines.
Oct 17, 2023 · Gandy Dancer Work Song Tradition. Gandy Dancers “Gandy dancers” was a nickname for railroad section gangs in the days before modern mechanized track upkeep. The men were called dancers for their synchronized movements when repairing track under the direction of a lead workman known as the “caller” or “call man.”.
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The song of the Gandy Dancer. This was a song that used to be heard wherever there was a railroad. Lining track is hard, hot work but it's easier if all the lining bars pull together and so the track caller entered American History.
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