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BOOK REVIEWS Work and Sing: A History of Occupational and Labor Union Songs in the United States. By Ronald D. Cohen. Crockett, CA: Carquinez Press, 2010. ISBN: 978-0-974412-48-1. Softcover. Pp. xviii, 190. $24.95. In the spirit of the late Archie Green (to whom the book is dedicated), Ronald Cohen's Work and Sing traces the history of the study of music by, for, and about working people in the United States. In compact form, Cohen's book traces efforts by folklorists, musicologists, and radical cultural workers to collect and preserve the lyrics and melodies that emerged from the lives of cowboys, sailors, lumberjacks, and hobos. Individual chapters attend to African American work songs, ballads, and blues, to trade union anthems and hymns, and to musicals and folk music performances and practices. Although attentive to the uses and effects of singing as a way to make work seem less tedious, to promote solidarity on the job, and to voice broad social and political aspirations, Work and Sing is primarily an account of a long and unevenly successful struggle by sympathetic intellectuals to build a recognizable archive of working people's music through songbook collections, recordings, and the activities of popular social movements.
American Music – University of Illinois Press
Published: Oct 24, 2012
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