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I grew up with Pete Seeger all around and loved him so much, and also have an awareness it's sometimes a little tricky, from present day perspective, how he gets credited with things invented by people who were't a second-generation Harvard ethnomusicologist.

in that spirit I'd want to point out there are of other names for this thing...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lining_out

https://academic.oup.com/california-scholarship-online/book/28548

"“Lining out,” also called Dr. Watts hymn singing, refers to hymns sung to a limited selection of familiar tunes, intoned a line at a time by a leader and taken up in turn by the congregation. "

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Misha, I'd argue that lining out is a somewhat different thing than seegering, though they're related: Conventionally in lined-out hymnody, the next line is *sung by the leader, with an indication of the melody, not spoken. But yes, I actually didn't mean to imply that Seeger invented this, which I'm sure people have been doing for centuries if not millennia. Just that he made prominent use of it.

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Lining out is sort of halfway between seegering and callowaying, we might say! Although Calloway, and Jenkins, didn't invent the latter either. Fair point of caution to point out that these playful terms might give that impression.

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totally

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