Songs about Work
- Editor: Green, Archie
an impressive collection ... this book marks a milestone in the study of labor an occupational songs —
Book
$29.50Out of stock at the UK distributor
Contents
- 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