Work songs
By: Theodore Gioia.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
Subjects: Working class -- Songs and music -- History and criticism; Work songs -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Why work songs?; title: The hunter; title: The cultivator; title: The herder; title: Thread and cloth; title: The new rhythms of work; title: Sea and shore; title: The lumberjack; title: Take this hammer!; title: The cowboy; title: The miner; title: The prisoner; title: The labor movement and songs of work; title: Music and the modern worker; title: Epilogue : the calling.