Pistol packin' Mama
Subtitle: Aunt Molly Jackson and the politics of folksong
By: Shelly Romalis.
Series: Music in American life
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
Subjects: Jackson, Aunt Molly.; Singers -- United States -- Biography.; Protest songs -- United States -- History and criticism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-228) and index.
Table of contents: title: "Hard times in Coleman's mines": coal and community in the Kentucky mountains; title: "I am a union woman": the Communist National Miners Union comes to Harlan County, Kentucky; title: "I was born and raised in old Kentucky": Aunt Molly Jackson's first fifty years; title: "Christmas Eve on the East Side": Aunt Molly moves to New York City; title: "Girl of constant sorrow": Molly's sister, Sarah Ogan Gunning; title: "White pilgrims in the foreign heathen country": Molly, Sarah, and the politics of folksong; title: "Dreadful memories": class-conscious wives, radical mothers; title: Reflections: "Be a grievin' after me".