Life flows on in endless song
Subtitle: folk songs and American history
By: Robert V. Wells.
Series: Music in American life
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9780252034558; 9780252076503
Subjects: Folk songs, English -- United States -- History and criticism; United States -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Who was Tom Dooley? : history and folk songs; title: Careless love : courtship, marriage, and children; title: Mine eyes have seen the glory : of God and country; title: Take this hammer : work and the labor movement; title: The man who never returned : ships, trains, and other transportation; title: Just lookin for a home : traveling on; title: Nobody knows the trouble I've seen : hard times and hard men; title: How can I keep from singing? : Huddie Ledbetter and Woody Guthrie.