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Author Foner, Philip Sheldon, 1910-1994.

Title American labor songs of the nineteenth century / [compiled by] Philip S. Foner
Published Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1975]
©1975
©1975

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Description xvii, 356 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm + phonodisc (2 s. : 7 in. ; 33 1/3 rpm.)
Series Music in American life
Music in American life.
Contents Colonial, revolutionary, and early national period -- The era of Jacksonian democracy, 1823-40 -- The pre-Civil War decades, 1840-60 -- Foreign-born and black workers -- The Civil War and Post-Civil War era, 1861-72 -- The long Depression, 1873-79 -- The Knights of Labor -- The early American Federation of Labor -- The miners -- The eight-hour day and the Haymarket Affair -- Boycotts, strikes, and unemployment demonstrations, 1880-1900 -- Labor parties, labor - Farmers' Alliance coalition, and labor populism, 1880-97 -- Socialism -- Bibliography -- Song titles and first lines -- Composers -- Index -- A note on the recording
Notes Includes indexes
LC copy has dust jacket, lacks phonodisc. DLC
Principally words
Source: Gift of Paul Avrich, Aug. 26, 1986. DLC
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [327]-334)
Subject Ballads, English -- United States -- Texts.
Ballads, English -- United States -- Text
Ballads, English -- United States.
Folk songs, English -- United States.
Labor -- Songs and music
Labor movement -- Songs and music
Working class -- Songs and music.
Songs -- United States.
Songs -- United States -- Texts.
Songs, English -- United States -- Texts.
Songs, English -- United States.
Working class -- United States -- Songs and music.
Working class.
Author Foner, Philip Sheldon, 1910-1994.
LC no. 94165091
ISBN 0252001877