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Title
Hear my sad story
Type
Text
Monograph
Multimedia
Contribution
Polenberg, Richard (Author)
Subject
Folk songs, English--United States--History and criticism (LCSH)
Language
English
Illustrative Content
Illustrations
Geographic Coverage
United States
Classification
LCC: ML3551
DDC: 782.42162/13009 full
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Supplementary Content
bibliography
index
Content
text
Summary
"In Hear My Sad Story, Richard Polenberg describes the historical events that led to the writing of many famous American folk songs that served as touchstones for generations of American musicians, lyricists, and folklorists. Those events, which took place from the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries, often involved tragic occurrences: murders, sometimes resulting from love affairs gone wrong; desperate acts borne out of poverty and unbearable working conditions; and calamities such as railroad crashes, shipwrecks, and natural disasters. All of Polenberg's accounts of the songs in the book are grounded in historical fact and illuminate the social history of the times. Reading these tales of sorrow, misfortune, and regret puts us in touch with the dark but terribly familiar side of American history."
Table Of Contents
Prologue: The streets of Laredo
St. Louis
St. Louis blues
Duncan and Brady
Stagolee
Frankie and Johnny
Lying cold on the ground
Omie wise
The ballad of Frankie Silver
Tom Dooley
Poor Ellen Smith
Pearl Bryan
Delia's gone
Bold highwaymen
Cole Younger
Jesse James
John Hardy
Railroad Bill
Betty and Dupree
Railroads
John Henry (1870s)
Engine 143
Casey Jones
Wreck of the old 97
Workers
Cotton mill blues (1930s)
Chain gang blues (1930s)
Only a miner (1930s)
House of the rising sun (1930s)
Disasters
The Titanic
The boll weevil (1920s)
Martyrs
Joe Hill
Sacco and Vanzetti
Epilogue: Hear my sad story.
Authorized Access Point
Polenberg, Richard Hear my sad story
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