Songs about Work

Songs about Work
Author: Archie Green
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 378
Release: 1993
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781879407053

These essays offer striking portraits of working environments where song arose in response to prevailing conditions. Included are the protest blues of African American levee workers, the corridos of Chicano farm workers, and the European songs of immigrant lumber workers in the Midwest.