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"The Depression brought unprecedented changes for American workers and organized labor. As the economy plummeted, employers cut wages and laid off workers, while simultaneously attempting to wrest more work from those who remained employed. In mills, mines, and factories, workers organized and...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lynch, Timothy P.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, ©2001.
Series:American made music series.
Subjects:
1929
Protest songs > United States > History and criticism.
Working class > United States > Songs and music > History and criticism.
Depressions > 1929 > United States.
Chansons contestataires > États-Unis > Histoire et critique.
Travailleurs > États-Unis > Chants et musique > Histoire et critique.
Crises économiques > 1929 > États-Unis.
MUSIC > Printed Music > General.
MUSIC > Genres & Styles > Folk & Traditional.
Depressions
Protest songs
Working class > Songs and music
Arbeiterlied
United States
USA
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • "Their Sharpest Statement": Introduction
  • Ch. 1. "Mill Mother's Lament": Gastonia, North Carolina, 1929
  • Ch. 2. "Dreadful Memories": Harlan County, Kentucky, 1931-32
  • Ch. 3. "Sit Down! Sit Down!": Flint, Michigan, 1936-37
  • Conclusion: "Better Than a Hundred Speeches."

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