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Working girl blues : the life and music of Hazel Dickens /

Hazel Dickens is an Appalachian singer and songwriter known for her superb musicianship, feminist country songs, union anthems, and blue-collar laments. Growing up in a West Virginia coal mining community, she drew on the mountain music and repertoire of her family and neighbors when establishing he...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dickens, Hazel, 1925-2011
Otros Autores: Malone, Bill C.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2008]
Colección:Music in American life.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Hazel Dickens : a brief biography by Bill C. Malone
  • Songs and Memories by Hazel Dickens.
  • Mama's hand
  • A few old memories
  • You'll get no more of me
  • West Virginia my home
  • My better years
  • Working girl blues
  • Scars from an old love
  • Lost patterns
  • Scraps from your table
  • Beyond the River Bend
  • Won't you come and sing for me
  • Only the lonely
  • Rambling woman
  • Your greedy heart
  • Don't put her down, you helped put her there
  • It's hard to tell the singer from the song
  • I love to sing the old songs
  • Old calloused hands
  • Rocking chair blues
  • Pretty bird
  • Mount Zion's lofty heights
  • Cowboy Jim
  • Little Lenaldo
  • Tomorrow's already lost
  • I can't find your love anymore
  • Hills of home
  • Old river
  • Will Jesus wash the bloodstains from your hands
  • They'll never keep us down
  • Mannington mine disaster
  • Coal miner's grave
  • Black lung
  • Coal mining woman
  • The Yablonski murder
  • Clay County miner
  • My heart's own love
  • America's poor
  • Freedom's disciple (working-class heroes)
  • The homeless
  • My love has left me.