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Labor: book examples

The Big Red Songbook by Archie Green (Editor)
Call Number: ML3780.B54 2016
250+ IWW songs. In 1905, radical labor groups came together to form the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW or Wobblies). The union was a huge presence in the labor movement, and wherever they went, they sang.
Strike Songs of the Depression by Timothy P. Lynch
Call Number: ML3780.L96 2001
Examines songs from a North Carolina textile mill strike (1929), a Kentucky coal mining strike (1931-32), and a Michigan automobile sit-down strike (1936-37).
Roosevelt's Blues by Guido van Rijn
Call Number: ML3521.R55 1997 [book + audio CD]
African-American blues and gospel songs on FDR.

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Labor: score examples

Socialist and Labor Songs by Elizabeth Morgan (Editor)
Call Number: M1977.L3.M6 2014
An international revolutionary songbook compiled from several generations in America and from around the world.
Songs of Work and Protest by Edith Fowke
Call Number: M1977.L3.F8 1973
The history of the labor movement through songs of coal miners and textile workers, railroad men and steelworkers, farmers, seamen, and cow-hands who worked to defeat political and industrial tyranny, child labor, hunger, poverty, and unemployment.

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Labor: audio and video examples

Coal Digging Blues
Call Number: PhonCD F G3890.C634
Recorded by George Korson during field recording trips to West Virginia, 1940.
The original Talking union with the Almanac Singers by Pete Seeger, vocal soloist; Almanac Singers.
Call Number: PhonCD F G3701.P7.A468
Also available as streaming audio in: Music and Performing Arts from Alexander Street Press (MIT access)
Songs from the film Out of Darkness: the mine workers' story
Streaming audio in: Music and Performing Arts from Alexander Street Press (MIT access)
Songs of the Wobblies: I will win / Joe Glazer.
Publication Date: originally released 1977
Streaming audio in: Music and Performing Arts from Alexander Street Press (MIT access)
Songs of the working people: American Revolution to the Civil War
Streaming audio in: Music and Performing Arts from Alexander Street Press (MIT access)

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Labor unions music
Protest songs
Depressions 1929 music

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