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ARCHIE GREEN was Professor of Folklore and English at the University of Texas, Austin. He was the author of numerous studies of laborlore.
List of contents
Part I Remembrances
A Tribute to Dick Reuss
Judith McCulloh
Staking the Territory: Dick Reuss and the U.S., Protest-Political Song Tradition
David King Dunaway
Memories of Dick Reuss, Robbie Lieberman
A Conversation with Jo Reuss, Joyce L. Kornbluh
Goodnight Irene, Goodbye DIck
Archie Green
Part II
Joe Hill Incorporated: We Own Our Past
Lori Elaine Taylor
"The Waterman Train Wreck": Tracking a Folksong in Deep East Texas
John Minton
The Southern Textile Song Tradition Reconsidered
Doug DeNatale and Glenn Hinson
The Gospel of Black Unionism
Brenda McCallum
Shack Bullies and Levee Contractors: Bluesmen as Ethnographers
John Cowley
"An Icy Mountain Brook": Revival, Aestetics, and the "Coal Creek March"
Neil V. Rosenberg
John L. Handcox: "There Is Still Mean Things Happening"
Rebecca B. Schroeder and Donald M. Lance
Woody's Oil Songs
Archie Green
Truth in Folksong: A Corridista's View of Singing in the California Farm Workers' Movement
Michael Heisley
Farm, Forest, and Factory: Songs of Midwestern Labor
James P. Leary and Richard March
The Brotherhood of Timber Workers and the Culture of Conflict
Jeff Ferrell
Fellow Worker Guy Askew: A Reminiscence
Richard Ellington
The Joe Hill Legend in Britain
Sam Richards
Worksongs: A Demonstration Collection of Examples
Norm Cohen
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About the author
ARCHIE GREEN was Professor of Folklore and English at the University of Texas, Austin. He was the author of numerous studies of laborlore.
Summary
Offers portraits of working environments where song arose in response to prevailing conditions.
