Life flows on in endless song : folk songs and American history /
"Life Flows On in Endless Song explores American folk songs as a frame for the American experience."--Back cover.
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
©2009.
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| Series: | Music in American life.
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Table of 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.
