num_pages: 576
description: As garment workers, longshoremen, autoworkers, sharecroppers and clerks took to the streets, striking and organizing unions in the midst of the Depression, artists, writers and filmmakers joined the insurgent social movement by creating a cultural front. Disney cartoonists walked picket lines, and Billie Holiday sand ‘Strange Fruit’ at the left-wing cabaret, Café Society. Duke Ellington produced a radical musical, Jump for Joy, New York garment workers staged the legendary Broadway revue Pins and Needles, and Orson Welles and his Mercury players took their labor operas and anti-fascist Shakespeare to Hollywood and made Citizen Kane.A major reassessment of US cultural history, The Cultural Front is a vivid mural of this extraordinary upheaval which reshaped American culture in the twentieth century.
language: English
title: The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century
titlecomplete: The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century (Haymarket Series)
genres: Cultural, Grad School, Labor, Politics, Nonfiction, School, American History, Art, 20th Century, History
ratings_count: 222
publisher: Verso/New Left Books (London/NYC)