Songs about Work

Songs about Work

Author: Archie Green

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 378

ISBN-13: 9781879407053

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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.