Protest Songs from the Textile Mills and Coalfields
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Protest songs have sustained strikers on picket lines, memorialized disasters, galvanized support for unions, sparked folk revivals, and established Appalachia in the national consciousness as a site of labor struggle. In Coal Dust on the Fiddle (1943), a collection of songs from the bituminous coal mines, George Korson explains that the folk songs of immigrant miners, traditional ballads of the Southern Appalachians, and African American spirituals combined in music that documented and commemorated life in the mines....
2019 ◽
Vol 4
(6)
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pp. 192-201
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1953 ◽
Vol 1
(2)
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pp. 152-152
1998 ◽
Vol 22
(1)
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pp. 11-18
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2017 ◽
Vol 53
(1)
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pp. 8-14
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