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Work songs / Ted Gioia.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gioia, Ted.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Working class--Songs and music--History and criticism.
- Working class.
- Work songs--History and criticism.
- Work songs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (368 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The place of music in different forms of work from the earliest hunting and planting to the contemporary office.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-335) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613022264
- 9781283022262
- 1283022265
- 9780822387688
- 0822387689
- OCLC:
- 220950631
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