Working class -- Songs and music

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Contains chapters 1 and 12, and pages 186 and 248 of Archie Green, ‘Only a Miner’, (Urbana: University of Illinois, 1972), Philip S. Foner, American Labor Songs of the Nineteenth Century’, (Urbana: University of Illinois, 1975), pp 200-205. Also includes sheet music for songs ‘Which Side are You on?’ and ‘Miner’s Life is Like a Sailor’s’, extracted from the publications of ‘Songs of Work and Protest’ and ‘Come All ye Bold Miners’.

Scope and Contents Contains an entire printed copy of Ed Cray, ‘The Erotic Muse: American bawdy songs’ (London; New York: Omnibus Press, 1978). Also includes a series of correspondence with Ed Cray about a new edition of the publication and personal material, dated c. 1988. Within the publication is another folder titled ‘Bernys, Women’s Songs’ in which is the typed manuscript of Diane Bernys, ‘Army Life Songs’, Folklore Archive, Department of Anthropology, State University College, Buffalo, New York, December...

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Contains material that is either written or edited by Bruce Jackson. Includes ‘What Happened to Jody?’, ‘Journal of American Folklore’, Vol. 80, No. 318, Oct-Dec 1967, and ‘Wake up Dead Man: Afro-American Worksongs from Texas Prisons’, (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1972).

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Contains the full facsimile copy of R.M. Dick (ed.), ‘The Growing Tradition: A collection of New Zealand songs’ [unpublished]. Some annotation of the front, “further to my recent letter. Andrew Campbell.” The songs document colonial life, the New Zealand back country and soldier experience in the various wars of the 20th century [See ‘Roger Dick’ folder].

Scope and Contents A collection of printed articles, handwritten notes and newspaper clippings. The titles included are “Black Song: the Forge and the Flame’, ‘Putting Down Ole Massa: African Satire in the New World” in ‘African Folklore in the New World’, “A Pantheon of Heroes” in ‘Black Culture + Black Consciousness’, ‘The Social Implications of Negro Music in the United States’, ‘Afro-American Worksongs on Land and Sea’ in ‘By Land and By Sea: Studies in the Folklore of Work and Leisure’ and ‘Get Your Ass...