American Folksongs of Protest / John Greenway.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Greenway, John, author.

Series:

Anniversary Collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ballads, English--United States.

Ballads, English.

Folk songs, English--United States.

Folk songs, English.

Protest songs--United States.

Protest songs.

Songs, English--United States.

Songs, English.

United States.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [1953]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

Introduction. THE POSITION OF SONGS OF PROTEST IN FOLK LITERATURE

1. An historical survey

2. Negro songs of protest

3. The songs of the textile workers

4. Songs of the miners

5. The migratory workers

6. Songs of the farmers

7. A labor miscellany

8. The song-makers

Appendix

Bibliography

List of Composers

List of Songs and Ballads

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references pages 329-338.

"Songs of social and economic protest on records": pages 311-327. Bibliography: p. 329-338

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Sep 2019)

ISBN:

9781512816426

1512816426

OCLC:

1100433295