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EXCERPT FROM THE RABLEROUSERS OF BLOODY HARLAN The Musicians of the Mine Wars_ Dexter Collett Editor's Note: This is an excerpt from a manuscript being preparedfor publication as a book. Music and social movements are now inextricably linked in the public mind: The Civil Rights Movement, for example, immediately conjures up images of people singing "We Shall Overcome." Early in blies," fused music with working class protest quite successfully, but in the 1930s, nowhere was music a more integral part of workers' struggles than among coal miners in Harlan County, Kentucky. The trend continues through the present in large part because of the efforts of those who preceded today's activists. One family, the Garlands, produced three outstanding Eastern Kentucky folk singers with roots in the efforts to unionize the mines in Harlan and surrounding counties, particularly Bell and Knox Counties. But it was Florence Reece (1900-1986) who composed the most memorable of all the decade's labor songs, "Which Side Are You On?" All four of these singers grew up near Harlan County, but none were born or raised there. Instead they all were drawn to Harlan County in search of work in the coal mines by the 1920s
Appalachian Review – University of North Carolina Press
Published: Jan 8, 2006
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