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What's the Use of Walking If There's a Freight Train Going Your Way?: Black Hoboes & Their Songs - Softcover

 
9780882863061: What's the Use of Walking If There's a Freight Train Going Your Way?: Black Hoboes & Their Songs
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0882863061 ISBN 13: 9780882863061
Verlag: Charles H Kerr Pub Co, 2006

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Another wonderful slice of history, political, cultural, and social history. Better yet, it comes 'illustrated' with a CD, with 25 original recordings. Plus, of course, the work is full of the lyrics, art, and photographs of people, and their times.

"The music and poetry of black workers in motion - hoboing, hitchhiking, timbering, mining, railroading, loving, leaving, fighting back and searcing for a new job, a new life and even a new world are brilliantly recorded and explained in this arresting collection." [David Roediger]

"Paul Garon has produced yet another masterpiece of cultural history. The stories and songs he gathers together in this remarkable book disrupt common notions of what we mean by 'freedom' when it comes to black folk. Hoboes represented a significant segment of the black working class, and their constant movements were both evidence of constraints and acts of freedom. And as he so eloquently demonstrates, the men and women who took to the road and their bards have much to teach us about America's 'bottom rail.'" [Robin D G Kelley]

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Verlag
Charles H Kerr Pub Co
Erscheinungsdatum
2006
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0882863061
ISBN 13 
9780882863061
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
296
Herausgeber
Garon Paul
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