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Ladataan... Pistol Packin' Mama: Aunt Molly Jackson and the Politics of FolksongTekijä: Shelly Romalis
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. This book is a study by an anthroplogist of Molly Jackson, a coal miner's wife from Kentucky who got taken up by the radical/CP left in the 30's and brought to NYC. She wrote songs about the life of the miners & their families. The book also discusses her half-sister Sarah Gunning, who also moved to NYC in the 30's and ended up performing in folk music revival venues in the 60's & 70's. This is not a history book but more of a study about historical events and some people involved in them. The author does not attempt to find a "true story", but shows some different points of view. The book is a bit academic. Molly Jackson seems to be a person who puts herself at the center of every story, and pushes other people out of the story altogether. At one point she is quoted talking about how something she did was all over the Florida newspapers & at that point I wished for a book which would include information about whether in fact that claim was true, since it seems like it might be a checkable claim. But this isn't that book. This book has lots of points of view, and all are influenced by the person's wishes & political perspective. ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
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Meet Aunt Molly Jackson (1880-1960), one of American folklore's most fascinating characters. A coal miner's daughter, she grew up in eastern Kentucky, married a miner, and became a midwife, labor activist, and songwriter. Fusing hard experience with rich Appalachian musical tradition, her songs became weapons of struggle. In 1931, at age fifty, she was "discovered" and brought north, sponsored and befriended by an illustrious circle of left-wing intellectuals and musicians, including Theodore Dreiser, Alan Lomax, and Charles Seeger and his son Pete. Along with Sarah Ogan Gunning, Jim Garland (two of Aunt Molly's half-siblings), Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly, and other folk musicians, she served as a cultural broker, linking the rural working poor to big-city left-wing activism. Shelly Romalis draws upon interviews and archival materials to construct this portrait of an Appalachian woman who remained radical, raucous, proud, poetic, offensive, self-involved, and in spirit the "real" pistol packin' mama of the song. "Mr. Coal operator call me anything you please, blue, green, or red, I aim to see to it that these Kentucky coalminers will not dig your coal while their little children are crying and dying for milk and bread." -- Aunt Molly Jackson Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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