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to African American music in general.

The field holler may in turn have been influenced by blues recordings. No recorded examples of hollers exist from before the mid-1930s, but some blues recordings, such as Mistreatin' Mama (1927, Negro Patti) by the harmonica player Jaybird Coleman, show strong links with the field holler tradition.

A white tradition of "hollerin'" may be of similar age, but has not been adequately researched. Since 1969

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