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Author Wells, Robert V., 1943-

Title Life flows on in endless song : folk songs and American history / Robert V. Wells.

Publication Info. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2009]
©2009

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 Talbott: Circulating Collection  ML3551 .W45 2009    Available  ---
Description xii, 245 pages ; 23 cm.
Series Music in American life
Music in American life.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-229), discography (pages 229-232), and index.
Contents Who was Tom Dooley? : history and folk songs -- Careless love : courtship, marriage, and children -- "Mine eyes have seen the glory" : of God and country -- "Take this hammer" : work and the labor movement -- The man who never returned : ships, trains, and other transportation -- Just lookin' for a home : traveling on -- Nobody knows the trouble I've seen : hard times and hard men -- How can I keep from singing? : Huddie Ledbetter and Woody Guthrie.
Subject Folk songs, English -- United States -- History and criticism.
Folk songs, English.
United States.
United States -- History.
History.
ISBN 9780252034558 cloth alkaline paper
0252034554 cloth alkaline paper
9780252076503 paperback alkaline paper
0252076508 paperback alkaline paper