Hailed as a classic in music studies when it was first published in 1977, Early Downhome Blues is a detailed look at traditional country blues artists and their work.
Combining musical analysis and cultural history approaches, Titon examines the origins of downhome blues in African American society. He also explores what happened to the art form when the blues were commercially recorded and became part of the larger American culture. From forty-seven musical transcriptions, Titon derives a grammar of early downhome blues melody. His book is enriched with the recollections of blues performers, audience members, and those working in the recording industry.
In a new afterword, Titon reflects on the genesis of this book in the blues revival of the 1960s and the politics of tourism in the current revival under way.

American Labor Songs of the Nineteenth Century (Music in American Life)

Arts & Photography

Foner, Philip S.

Music

University of Illinois Press

Mill workers of the Northeast talk about industrial development, working conditions, and trade unions

FACTORY GIRLS

Business & Money

WE THE OTHER PEOPLE

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Alternative declarations of Independence by Labor Groups, Farmers womens rights advocates socialists and blacks 1829-1975. 1976, 205pp

History

Americas

In their long, continuing struggle for equality, American women have had to rely primarily on their own resources, which have been considerable. Yet many men have helped advance their cause. Perhaps foremost among them was the great abolitionist Frederick Douglass. According to the women of the time, Douglass was their preeminent male supporter. As Elizabeth Cady Stanton said, "He was the only man I ever saw who understood the degradation of the disfranchisement of women." This book collects the speeches and writings of Frederick Douglass on women's rights. Since suffrage was the major concern of the movement, the issue of voting was primary among Douglass's themes; however, he also spoke and wrote resolutely on the need for women to reach their full potential by participating in every phase of American society and in every aspect of decision-making. No one was more insistent that the oppression of women violated the principles proclaimed at the birth of the American Republic. He was, in short, in favor of "absolute justice and perfect equality" for women. And because of his pride in his own race, he never failed to remind the white women who led the movement that black women endured an even greater oppression in white, male-dominated society than they did. Always eloquent and rarely less than inspiring, Frederick Douglass on Women's Rights presents the words of one of America's greatest spokesmen on one of the most important issues of the nineteenth century, words which still ring with truth and power today.

Frederick Douglass On Women's Rights

Africa

Da Capo Press

Against a pre-Civil War backdrop of violence and antagonism, three courageous women, in different parts of the country, undertook to teach black children. Prudence Crandall, Margaret Douglass, and Myrtilla Miner lived, respectively, in Connecticut, Virginia, and Washington, D.C.: they each found that racial prejudice is not limited by geography and that people will go to great lengths to prevent the teaching of blacks. Of the three schools they established, only one--in the nation's capitol--proved more or less permanent, but all three had a significant impact on American life. Because they chose to teach black children, Miner, Douglass, and Crandall all endured persecution and hardship. Foner and Pacheco's important biographical study portrays three women of unusual courage who deserve to take their places with the many brave women of nineteenth-century America.

Three Who Dared: Prudence Crandall, Margaret Douglass, Myrtilla Miner--Champions of Antebellum Black Education (Contributions in Women's Studies)

Vandepaer, Elizabeth

Pacheco, Josephin

Praeger

Format Hardcover Subject Music Theory Publisher Greenwood Publishing Group Incorporated

Friedrich A. Sorge's Labor Movement in the United States: A History of the American Working Class From 1890 to 1896 (Contributions in Economics and Economic History)

Schoenhals, Kai

Economics

Our Own Time provides the first full account of the movement to shorten the working day in the United States. Combining the narrative and trade union emphasis of traditional labor history with the focus on culture and the labor process characteristic of contemporary labor history, the book offers an illuminating reinterpretation of the history of the U.S. labor movement from the colonial period onward. The authors argue that the length of the working day or week historically has been the central issue raised by the American labor movement during its most vigorous periods of organization.Beginning with a picture of working hours in colonial America and the early republic, Roediger and Foner then analyze the ideology of the movement for a ten-hour workday in the early nineteenth century. They demonstrate that the ten-hour issue was a key to the dynamism of the Jacksonian labor movement as well as to the unity of male artisans and female factory workers in the 1840s. The authors proceed to examine the subsequent demands for an eight-hour day, which helped to produce the mass labor struggles of the late nineteenth century and established the American Federation of Labor as the dominant force in American trade unionism. Chapters on labor movement defeats following World War I, on the depression years, and on the lack of progress over the last half-century complete the study. Our Own Time will be an ideal supplemental text for courses in U.S. labor and economic history.

Our Own Time: A History of American Labor and the Working Day (Contributions in Labor Studies)

Roediger, David R.

The famous Wobbly poet, songwriter and organizer was executed in Salt Lake Cityon November 19, 1915. Many felt that he was not guilty of the murder he was charged with, that he did not have a fair trial, and that he was the victim of class persecution. Here the noted labor historian, Philip Foner presents the first complete study of this important labor case. Based on exhaustive research in a wide variety of sources, many never before examined, Dr. Foner conclusively demonstrates that Joe Hill was the victim of a colossal frame up.

The Case of Joe Hill

Intl Pub Co Inc

History of the Labor Movement in the United States: From Colonial Times to the Founding of the American Federation of Labor

Intl Pub

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American Labor Songs of the Nineteenth Century (Music in American Life)

FACTORY GIRLS

WE THE OTHER PEOPLE

WE THE OTHER PEOPLE

Frederick Douglass On Women's Rights

Three Who Dared: Prudence Crandall, Margaret Douglass, Myrtilla Miner--Champions of Antebellum Black Education (Contributions in Women's Studies)

Friedrich A. Sorge's Labor Movement in the United States: A History of the American Working Class From 1890 to 1896 (Contributions in Economics and Economic History)

Our Own Time: A History of American Labor and the Working Day (Contributions in Labor Studies)

The Case of Joe Hill

History of the Labor Movement in the United States: From Colonial Times to the Founding of the American Federation of Labor