"Sing Out, Warning! Sing Out, Love!"

Author: Lee Hays
Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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Lee Hays (1914-1981) was the bass singer of the popular folk singing quartet, The Weavers, and a talented writer of prose. Robert S. Koppelman has brought together a selection of Hay's literary output which places the author and his work in a historical context.

"Sing Out, Warning! Sing Out, Love!"

Author: Lee Hays
Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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Book Description
Lee Hays (1914-1981) was the bass singer of the popular folk singing quartet, The Weavers, and a talented writer of prose. Robert S. Koppelman has brought together a selection of Hay's literary output which places the author and his work in a historical context.

Sing Out

Sing Out PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folk songs
Languages : en
Pages : 592

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Sharecropper’s Troubadour

Sharecropper’s Troubadour PDF Author: M. Honey
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137088362
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 233

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Folk singer and labor organizer John Handcox was born to illiterate sharecroppers, but went on to become one of the most beloved folk singers of the prewar labor movement. This beautifully told oral history gives us Handcox in his own words, recounting a journey that began in the Deep South and went on to shape the labor music tradition.

Gullah Spirituals

Gullah Spirituals PDF Author: Eric Sean Crawford
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 1643361910
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 250

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In Gullah Spirituals musicologist Eric Crawford traces Gullah Geechee songs from their beginnings in West Africa to their height as songs for social change and Black identity in the twentieth century American South. While much has been done to study, preserve, and interpret Gullah culture in the lowcountry and sea islands of South Carolina and Georgia, some traditions like the shouting and rowing songs have been all but forgotten. This work, which focuses primarily on South Carolina's St. Helena Island, illuminates the remarkable history, survival, and influence of spirituals since the earliest recordings in the 1860s. Grounded in an oral tradition with a dynamic and evolving character, spirituals proved equally adaptable for use during social and political unrest and in unlikely circumstances. Most notably, the island's songs were used at the turn of the century to help rally support for the United States' involvement in World War I and to calm racial tensions between black and white soldiers. In the 1960s, civil rights activists adopted spirituals as freedom songs, though many were unaware of their connection to the island. Gullah Spirituals uses fieldwork, personal recordings, and oral interviews to build upon earlier studies and includes an appendix with more than fifty transcriptions of St. Helena spirituals, many no longer performed and more than half derived from Crawford's own transcriptions. Through this work, Crawford hopes to restore the cultural memory lost to time while tracing the long arc and historical significance of the St. Helena spirituals.

Fruit of the Devil

Fruit of the Devil PDF Author: Mary Flodin
Publisher: Paper Angel Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 643

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Ms. Aurora Bourne would do anything to protect her students from harm … even if that means going up against the most powerful corporation on the planet. While getting her fourth grade classroom ready for Fall, Aurora begins to feel sick, and it’s more than back-to-school blues. Outside her windows next to the playground, strawberry fields have just been fumigated and pesticides are drifting into the classrooms, causing serious health issues for children and adults. When the teenage sister of a migrant student goes missing from the strawberry fields, it becomes clear that pesticide poisoning isn’t the only thing threatening the children’s safety, and Aurora begins to understand why farmworkers call strawberries Fruta del Diablo — the Fruit of the Devil. Aurora starts asking questions and gets caught in a web of gangs, drugs, trafficking, and high-level corporate crime. When a Catholic priest comes to her aid, she falls in love with him, complicating her life further. She has no idea he’s actually an ancient nature god out of Pacific Coast indigenous legends.

Life Flows on in Endless Song

Life Flows on in Endless Song PDF Author: Robert V. Wells
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252076508
Category : Folk music
Languages : en
Pages : 274

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An engaging survey of what folk songs tell us about the American past

Sounds and the City

Sounds and the City PDF Author: Brett Lashua
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319940813
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 446

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This book draws from a rich history of scholarship about the relations between music and cities, and the global flows between music and urban experience. The contributions in this collection comment on the global city as a nexus of moving people, changing places, and shifting social relations, asking what popular music can tell us about cities, and vice versa. Since the publication of the first Sounds and the City volume, various movements, changes and shifts have amplified debates about globalization. From the waves of people migrating to Europe from the Syrian civil war and other conflict zones, to the 2016 “Brexit” vote to leave the European Union and American presidential election of Donald Trump. These, and other events, appear to have exposed an anti-globalist retreat toward isolationism and a backlash against multiculturalism that has been termed “post-globalization.” Amidst this, what of popular music? Does music offer renewed spaces and avenues for public protest, for collective action and resistance? What can the diverse​​ histories, hybridities, and legacies of popular music tell us about the ever-changing relations of people and cities?

Lonesome Traveler

Lonesome Traveler PDF Author: Doris Willens
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803297470
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 326

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During the Great Depression, Lee Hays, the son of a Southern Methodist minister, used his music to life the hearts of sharecroppers and miners and union organizers. He helped bring black music to America's consciousness. He could make people laugh in times when there seemed little to laugh about. An Arkansas traveler and radical minstrel, he commented wryly on events and impaled reactionary southern congressmen on their own words. A kind of Mark Twain of the left, people said. But Lee Hays, for all his great size and talents and humor, was also a difficult man, plagued by self-doubts and a driving need to discombobulate any person or group that struck him as self-satisfied. Lonesome Traveler is the story of a prodigious talent with a zeal for changing the world. With Pete Seeger he formed the popular folksinging group the Weavers, which sang songs of social justice just as a tidal wave of red-hunting hit America. The rest of his legendary story will anger, touch, and delight.

Best Music Writing 2008

Best Music Writing 2008 PDF Author: Nelson George
Publisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 0786726121
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 362

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The ninth entry in the acclaimed series celebrating the best writing on every style of music, from rock to hip-hop, R&B to jazz, pop to blues, and more. Best music writing is the definitive guide to the year in music writing, an annual feast of essays, missives, and musings on every musical style by critics, novelists, and musicians themselves. Culled from publications ranging from blogs to the New Yorker, the 2008 edition captures a year in music writing as diverse and riveting as the music it illuminates.

Pete Seeger in His Own Words

Pete Seeger in His Own Words PDF Author: Pete Seeger
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317254287
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 386

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Long an icon of American musical and political life, Pete Seeger has written eloquently in a diverse array of publications but nowhere is his life story more personally chronicled than in these, his private writings, documents and letters stored for decades in his family barn. Pete Seeger: His Life in His Own Words, collects Seeger's letters, notes, published articles, rough drafts, stories and poetry - creating the most intimate picture yet available of Seeger as a musician, an activist and a family man. The book covers the passions, personalities and experiences of a lifetime of struggle - from the pre-WWII labour movement and the Communist Party, to Woody Guthrie, the Civil Rights movement and the struggle against the war in Vietnam. The portrait that emerges is not of a saint, but a flesh-and-blood man, struggling to understand his time and his place.