Assertion: folk singer's song | /r/CapableOf | take contemporary stories
Facets:
value: often
type: TEMPORAL
value: as their subject matter
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: The songs often took as their subject matter contemporary stories, with "Only a Pawn in Their Game" addressing the murder of civil rights worker Medgar Evers; and the Brechtian "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll" the death of black hotel barmaid Hattie Carroll, at the hands of young white socialite William Zantzinger.