Sharecropper’s Troubadour

Sharecropper’s Troubadour
Author: M. Honey
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2013-11-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 1137088362
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Folk singer and labor organizer John Handcox was born to illiterate sharecroppers, but went on to become one of the most beloved folk singers of the prewar labor movement. This beautifully told oral history gives us Handcox in his own words, recounting a journey that began in the Deep South and went on to shape the labor music tradition.


Sharecropper’s Troubadour
Language: en
Pages: 233

Sharecropper’s Troubadour

Authors: M. Honey
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-11-19 - Publisher: Springer

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Folk singer and labor organizer John Handcox was born to illiterate sharecroppers, but went on to become one of the most beloved folk singers of the prewar labo
Odetta’s One Grain of Sand
Language: en
Pages: 157

Odetta’s One Grain of Sand

Authors: Matthew Frye Jacobson
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-04-04 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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When 20-year-old Odetta Holmes-classically trained as a vocalist and poised to become “the next Marian Anderson”-veered away from both opera and musical the
Driven to the Field
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Pages: 396

Driven to the Field

Authors: David A. Davis
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-02-21 - Publisher: University of Virginia Press

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Driven to the Field traces the culture of sharecropping—crucial to understanding life in the southern United States—from Emancipation to the twenty-first ce
Living in the Future
Language: en
Pages: 273

Living in the Future

Authors: Victoria W. Wolcott
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-04-21 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Living in the Future reveals the unexplored impact of utopian thought on the major figures of the Civil Rights Movement. Utopian thinking is often dismissed as
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Language: en
Pages: 337

No Depression in Heaven

Authors: Alison Collis Greene
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Nowhere was the transition from church-based aid to federal welfare state brought about by the Great Depression more dramatic than in the South. For a moment, t