The songsters are more commonly male although females also sing on occasion.
Musicians were therefore segregated into two categories: gospel and blues singers, guitar preachers and songsters.
Later, as the guitar became more widely popular, the songsters often accompanied themselves.
As entertainers, songsters had the task of enticing a public, to whom the concoctions were then offered.
The kibbutz movements distributed songsters and established the singalong as a central daily event in kibbutz life.
Black and white musicians shared the same repertoire and thought of themselves as songsters rather than blues musicians.
Pastor published songsters, books of his lyrics which were sung to popular tunes.
They gathered their repertoire from sheet music, mail order, library songsters, and by playing with other musicians.
