A living atlas of singing-while-working traditions around the world, grouped by nation. Click a tradition name for videos. Click a place to jump to it on the map. Click any pill to filter.
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Ahousaht (Nuu-chah-nulth)
Aotearoa (New Zealand)
(Rotorua, Aotearoa) · Rowing and paddling Armenia
Atlantic Maritime
Australia
Azerbaijan
(Azerbaijan) · Animal-directed Bahamas
(Andros, Bahamas) · Hauling and heaving Bahrain
(Muharraq, Bahrain) · Communal work party Bangladesh
(Bengal rivers) · Hauling and heaving Brazil
(Brazil) · Communal work party Bulgaria
(Thrace, Bulgaria) · Communal work party Canada
(Iona, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia) · Hauling and heaving Communal work party Central African Republic
Chile
(Chiloé, Chile) · Communal work party China
(Shanghai, China) · Hauling and heaving Rowing and paddling Pounding and hammering Colombia
(Casanare, Colombia) · Animal-directed Solo pacing Democratic Republic of the Congo
Diné (Navajo Nation)
Ecuador
Egypt
England
(Cornwall) · Hauling and heaving Estonia
Ethiopia
France
(Brittany, France) · Hauling and heaving
(Berry, France) · Animal-directed Georgia
(Samegrelo and Kartli, Georgia) · Communal work party Animal-directed Hauling and heaving Solo pacing Germany
(Central Germany) · Communal work party Ghana
Greece
(Chios, Greece) · Communal work party Rowing and paddling Solo pacing Grenada
Haiti
(Artibonite, Haiti) · Communal work party Hawai'i
(Kihei, Hawai'i) · Rowing and paddling
(Waipahu, Hawai'i) · Solo pacing Communal work party Iceland
India
(Tezpur, Assam) · Communal work party
(Bihar, India) · Hauling and heaving
(Ballia, Uttar Pradesh, India) · Solo pacing Communal work party
(Aranmula, Kerala) · Rowing and paddling Indonesia
(Yogyakarta, Java) · Pounding and hammering Iran
(Bushehr, Iran) · Hauling and heaving
(Rasht, Gilan, Iran) · Communal work party Italy
(Favignana, Sicily) · Hauling and heaving
(Genoa, Italy) · Communal work party
Jamaica
(Jamaica) · Communal work party Japan
(Hokkaido, Japan) · Hauling and heaving
(Kuma River, Japan) · Hauling and heaving
(Kozaki, Chiba, Japan) · Pounding and hammering
(Taketomi, Okinawa) · Communal work party
(Tokyo, Japan) · Hauling and heaving Pounding and hammering Korea
(Gimnyeong, Jeju) · Hauling and heaving
(Pohang, Korea) · Communal work party
(Geomundo, Korea) · Hauling and heaving
(Korea) · Hauling and heaving
Kyrgyzstan
(Naryn, Kyrgyzstan) · Animal-directed Signaling Latvia
Lesotho
Liberia
Lithuania
Mali
(Ségou, Mali) · Communal work party Marshall Islands
(Majuro, Marshall Islands) · Signaling Hauling and heaving Rowing and paddling Mongolia
(Mongolia) · Animal-directed
(Gobi provinces, Mongolia) · Animal-directed Devotional and ritual Morocco
Nepal
(Nepal) · Communal work party Nigeria
(Kano, Nigeria) · Pounding and hammering Solo pacing Norway
Palestine
Peru
(Cusco, Andes) · Communal work party Philippines
(Uyugan, Batanes, Philippines) · Communal work party Rowing and paddling Portugal
(Alentejo, Portugal) · Devotional and ritual Russia
(Volga, Russia) · Hauling and heaving Saudi Arabia
(Najd, Arabia) · Animal-directed Scotland
(Gaelic Scotland) · Rowing and paddling
(South Uist) · Animal-directed
Somaliland
(Berbera, Somaliland) · Animal-directed Solo pacing Hauling and heaving South Africa
South Sudan
Spain
(Sa Pobla, Mallorca) · Solo pacing Animal-directed Communal work party Sri Lanka
(Sri Lanka) · Solo pacing Animal-directed Rowing and paddling Pounding and hammering Communal work party St. Vincent and the Grenadines
Sweden
(Gothenburg, Sweden) · Hauling and heaving Switzerland
(Entlebuch, Switzerland) · Animal-directed Signaling
(Muotathal, Switzerland) · Animal-directed Signaling Taiwan
(Taitung, Taiwan) · Devotional and ritual Communal work party Tanzania
(Dodoma, Tanzania) · Hauling and heaving Thailand
(Suphanburi, Thailand) · Communal work party Rowing and paddling Tibet
(Lhasa, Tibet) · Communal work party Uganda
Ukraine
(Central Ukraine) · Communal work party United States
(Virginia) · Communal work party
(Ellis Unit, Texas) · Pounding and hammering
(Texas plains) · Animal-directed
(Alfred, Maine) · Devotional and ritual
(United States) · Hauling and heaving
(Laguna Pueblo, New Mexico) · Pounding and hammering Solo pacing
(Paducah, Kentucky) · Hauling and heaving Uzbekistan
(Fergana Valley, Uzbekistan) · Animal-directed Communal work party Solo pacing Vietnam
(Huế, Vietnam) · Pounding and hammering
(Vinh, Vietnam) · Communal work party Rowing and paddling Wales
Zimbabwe
(Zimbabwe) · Communal work party