ISBN: 9780822337263

Description: xiii, 352 pages ; 25 cm

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-335) and index.

Contents:

• Why work songs?
• The hunter
• The cultivator
• The herder
• Thread and cloth
• The new rhythms of work
• Sea and shore
• The lumberjack
• Take this hammer!
• The cowboy
• The miner
• The prisoner
• The labor movement and songs of work
• Music and the modern worker
• The calling.

LCCN: 2005026241

Control Number: 167785

Subjects:

• Work songs -- History and criticism.
• Working class -- Songs and music -- History and criticism.

Genre:

• Music.
• Songs.