"Life and struggle of the Appalachian south--the words, the faces, the songs, the memories of the people who live it collected and recorded by Guy and Candie Carawan"; Illini Books, 1982

VOICES FROM MTNS

Arts & Photography

Carawan, Guy

Carawan, Candie

Music

University of Illinois Press

Reenacts the birth of the Civil Rights movement, documenting the sit-ins, freedom rides, and marches, as well as the violence with which its participants were often met

Everybody Says Freedom

Seeger, Pete

Reiser, Bob

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

A rich mosaic of photographs, words, and songs, Voices from the Mountains tells the turbulent story of the Appalachian South in the twentieth century. Focusing on the abuses of the coal industry and the grassroots struggle against mine owners that began in the 1960s, Guy and Candie Carawan have gathered quotations from a variety of sources; words and music to more than fifty ballads and songs, laments and satires, hymns and protests; and more than one hundred and fifty photographs of longtime Appalachian residents, their homes, their countryside, the mines they work in, and the labor battles they have fought.The "voices" that speak out in these pages range from the mountain people themselves to such well-known artists as Jean Ritchie, Hazel Dickens, Harriet Simpson Arnow, and Wendell Berry. Together they tell of the damage wrought by strip mining and the empty promises of land reclamation; the search for work and a new life in the North; the welfare rights, labor, antipoverty, and black lung movements; early days in the mines; disasters and negligence in the coal industry; and protest and change in the coal fields.Dignity and despair, poverty and perseverance, tradition and change―Voices from the Mountains eloquently conveys the complex panorama of modern Appalachian life.

Voices from the mountains,

Politics & Social Sciences

Anthropology

KNOPF

Ain't You Got a Right to the Tree of Life?: The People of Johns Island South Carolina―Their Faces, Their Words, and Their Songs (Brown Thrasher Books Ser.)

Photography & Video

University of Georgia Press

Ain't You Got a Right to the Tree of Life? presents an oral, musical, and photographic record of the venerable Gullah culture in modern times. With roots stretching back to their slave forebears, the Johns Islanders and their folk traditions are a vital link between black Americans and their African and Caribbean ancestors.
When first published in 1966, this book conveyed islanders' trepidation and jubilation upon the arrival of the civil rights movement to their isolated home. In this edition, which is updated through the late 1980s, the stories and songs of an older day blend with the voices of an empowered younger generation determined to fight the overdevelopment of their land by resort builders.

Ain't You Got a Right to the Tree of Life?: The People of Johns Island South Carolina―Their Faces, Their Words, and Their Songs (Brown Thrasher Books)

A rich mosaic of photographs, words, and songs, Voices from the Mountains tells the turbulent story of the Appalachian South in the twentieth century. Focusing on the abuses of the coal industry and the grassroots struggle against mine owners that began in the 1960s, Guy and Candie Carawan have gathered quotations from a variety of sources; words and music to more than fifty ballads and songs, laments and satires, hymns and protests; and more than one hundred and fifty photographs of longtime Appalachian residents, their homes, their countryside, the mines they work in, and the labor battles they have fought. The "voices" that speak out in these pages range from the mountain people themselves to such well-known artists as Jean Ritchie, Hazel Dickens, Harriet Simpson Arnow, and Wendell Berry. Together they tell of the damage wrought by strip mining and the empty promises of land reclamation; the search for work and a new life in the North; the welfare rights, labor, antipoverty, and black lung movements; early days in the mines; disasters and negligence in the coal industry; and protest and change in the coal fields. Dignity and despair, poverty and perseverance, tradition and change―Voices from the Mountains eloquently conveys the complex panorama of modern Appalachian life.

Voices from the Mountains (Brown Thrasher Books)

Includes the anti-pollution anthem "Garbage" & several children's songs by Woody Guthrie

My Rhinoceros and Other Friends

Gentle Wind

Sing for Freedom: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement through Its Songs

This new combined edition of We Shall Overcome and Freedom Is A Constant Struggle weaves together the leadsheets of 115 songs, 135 moving documentary photos, and stirring firsthand accounts. Grouped together in chapters on each of the key stages of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, they create a stunning vision of this critical moment in world history. Includes an introduction by the editors, Guy and Candie Carawan. The book is arranged chronologically and fully indexed.

Sing for Freedom: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement Through Its Songs

History

Americas

Sing Out! Publications

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