Sharecropper’s Troubadour [electronic resource] : John L. Handcox, the Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union, and the African American Song Tradition /
Honey, M.author.
Folk singer and labor organizer John Handcox was born to illiterate sharecroppers, but went on to become one of the most beloved folk singers of the prewar labor movement. This beautifully told oral history gives us Handcox in his own words, recounting a journey that began in the Deep South and went on to shape the labor music tradition.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Freedom after 'while : life and labor in the Jim Crow south -- Raggedy, raggedy are we : sharecropping and survival -- The planter and the sharecropper : the Southern Tenant Farmers Union -- There is mean things happening in this land : terror in Arkansas -- Join the union tonight : interracial organizing in Missouri -- Getting gone to the promised land : California -- I'm so glad to be here again : the return of John Handcox.
Folk singer and labor organizer John Handcox was born to illiterate sharecroppers, but went on to become one of the most beloved folk singers of the prewar labor movement. This beautifully told oral history gives us Handcox in his own words, recounting a journey that began in the Deep South and went on to shape the labor music tradition.
Handcox, John L., 1904-1992.
Southern Tenant Farmers' Union
Social history.
Music.
Civilization
History, Modern.
Social History.
Music.
History of the Americas.
US History.
Cultural History.
Modern History.