" . . . an impressive collection . . . this book marks a milestone in the study of labor an occupational songs." -Journal of American Folklore "This is an important contribution to Ameican history, saluting those who built the country with their labor." -Come-All-Ye "The remembrances are sensitive and perceptive, the essays are insightful and thought-provoking . . . " -Sonneck Society Bulletin These essays offer striking portraits of working environments where song arose in response to prevailing conditions. Included are the protest blues of African American levee workers, the corridos of…mehr
" . . . an impressive collection . . . this book marks a milestone in the study of labor an occupational songs." -Journal of American Folklore "This is an important contribution to Ameican history, saluting those who built the country with their labor." -Come-All-Ye "The remembrances are sensitive and perceptive, the essays are insightful and thought-provoking . . . " -Sonneck Society Bulletin These essays offer striking portraits of working environments where song arose in response to prevailing conditions. Included are the protest blues of African American levee workers, the corridos of Chicano farm workers, and the European songs of immigrant lumber workers in the Midwest.
ARCHIE GREEN was Professor of Folklore and English at the University of Texas, Austin. He was the author of numerous studies of laborlore.
Inhaltsangabe
Part I Remembrances A Tribute to Dick Reuss Judith McCulloh Staking the Territory: Dick Reuss and the U.S., Protest-Political Song Tradition David King Dunaway Memories of Dick Reuss, Robbie Lieberman A Conversation with Jo Reuss, Joyce L. Kornbluh Goodnight Irene, Goodbye DIck Archie Green Part II Joe Hill Incorporated: We Own Our Past Lori Elaine Taylor "The Waterman Train Wreck": Tracking a Folksong in Deep East Texas John Minton The Southern Textile Song Tradition Reconsidered Doug DeNatale and Glenn Hinson The Gospel of Black Unionism Brenda McCallum Shack Bullies and Levee Contractors: Bluesmen as Ethnographers John Cowley "An Icy Mountain Brook": Revival, Aestetics, and the "Coal Creek March" Neil V. Rosenberg John L. Handcox: "There Is Still Mean Things Happening" Rebecca B. Schroeder and Donald M. Lance Woody's Oil Songs Archie Green Truth in Folksong: A Corridista's View of Singing in the California Farm Workers' Movement Michael Heisley Farm, Forest, and Factory: Songs of Midwestern Labor James P. Leary and Richard March The Brotherhood of Timber Workers and the Culture of Conflict Jeff Ferrell Fellow Worker Guy Askew: A Reminiscence Richard Ellington The Joe Hill Legend in Britain Sam Richards Worksongs: A Demonstration Collection of Examples Norm Cohen Contributors
Part I Remembrances A Tribute to Dick Reuss Judith McCulloh Staking the Territory: Dick Reuss and the U.S., Protest-Political Song Tradition David King Dunaway Memories of Dick Reuss, Robbie Lieberman A Conversation with Jo Reuss, Joyce L. Kornbluh Goodnight Irene, Goodbye DIck Archie Green Part II Joe Hill Incorporated: We Own Our Past Lori Elaine Taylor "The Waterman Train Wreck": Tracking a Folksong in Deep East Texas John Minton The Southern Textile Song Tradition Reconsidered Doug DeNatale and Glenn Hinson The Gospel of Black Unionism Brenda McCallum Shack Bullies and Levee Contractors: Bluesmen as Ethnographers John Cowley "An Icy Mountain Brook": Revival, Aestetics, and the "Coal Creek March" Neil V. Rosenberg John L. Handcox: "There Is Still Mean Things Happening" Rebecca B. Schroeder and Donald M. Lance Woody's Oil Songs Archie Green Truth in Folksong: A Corridista's View of Singing in the California Farm Workers' Movement Michael Heisley Farm, Forest, and Factory: Songs of Midwestern Labor James P. Leary and Richard March The Brotherhood of Timber Workers and the Culture of Conflict Jeff Ferrell Fellow Worker Guy Askew: A Reminiscence Richard Ellington The Joe Hill Legend in Britain Sam Richards Worksongs: A Demonstration Collection of Examples Norm Cohen Contributors
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