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Labor and Industrial Folksongs: A Select Bibliography
Compiled by: Susan R. Heffner
Publication Date: June 23, 1978
Adams, James Taylor.
Death in the Dark: A Collection of Factual
Ballads of American Mine Disasters. Big Laurel, VA: Adams-Mullins Press, 1941.
Reprint edition, Norwood, PA: Norwood Editions, 1974.
Alderson, William.
"On the Wobbly 'Casey Jones' and Other Songs." California
Folklore Quarterly, volume 1, number 4, October 1942, pp. 373-376.
Alloy, Evelyn.
Working Women's Music: The Songs and Struggles
of Women in the Cotton Mills, Textile Plants and Needle Trades. Somerville,
MA: New England Free Press, 1976.
Anderson, Jay, ed.
"George Korson Memorial Issue." Keystone
Folklore Quarterly,
volume 16, number 2, Summer 1971, pp. 53-113.
Blackard, Malcolm.
"Wilmer Watts and the Lonely Eagles." JEMF
Quarterly,
volume 5, part 4, number 16, Winter 1969, pp. 126-140.
Bledsoe, Thomas.
Or We'll Hang Separately: The Highlander
Idea. Boston: Beacon
Press, 1969.
Bontemps, Arna and Jack Conroy.
... They Seek a City. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1945. Revised
edition, Anyplace But Here. New York: Hill and Wang, 1966.
Bradley, Francis.
"A North Carolina Factory Rhyme." North
Carolina Folklore,
volume 9, number 2, December 1961, pp. 29-31.
Brand, Oscar.
The Ballad Mongers: Rise of the Modern Folk
Song. New York: Funk
and Wagnalls, 1962.
[no author] "The Brookside Mine 1974." Southern
Exposure,
volume 2, number 1, Spring-Summer 1974, pp. 52-55.
Brazier, Richard.
"The Story of I.W.W.'s 'Little Red
Songbook'." Labor
History, volume 9, Winter 1965, pp. 91-104. Reprinted in The
Sounds of Social Change: Studies in Popular Culture, edited by
R. Serge Denisoff and Richard A. Peterson, Chicago: Rand McNally,
1972, pp. 60-71.
[no author] "Bread and Roses." Sing
Out!, volume 25,
number 1, May-June 1976, pp. 8-9.
Carawan, Guy and Candie.
"They'll Never Keep Us Down: The Strike at Stearns, Kentucky." Sing
Out!, volume 26, number 1, May-June 1977, pp. 21-22.
Voices From the Mountains. New York: Knopf, 1975.
Chaplin, Ralph.
Wobbly: The Rough and Tumble Story of an
American Radical. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1948. Reprint edition, New York:
Da Capo Press, 1972.
Coffin, Tristram Potter and Cohen, Hennig, eds.
Folklore from the Working Folk of America. Garden City, NY: Anchor
Press, 1973.
Conn, Harry.
"Labor Songs: They Are Born of Labor Struggles." RWDSU Record [Retail,
Wholesale and Department Store Union], volume 3, number 5, March
18, 1956, p. 13.
Cunningham, Agnes.
"The Red Dust Players." Sing Out!, volume 25, number
1, January 1976, pp. 10-15.
Danker, Frederick E.
"Trucking Songs: A Comparison with Traditional Occupational
Song." Journal of Country Music, volume 6, number 4, January
1978, pp. 78-89.
Denisoff, R. Serge.
Great Day Coming: Folk Music and the American
Left. Urbana: University
of Illinois Press, 1971. Reprint edition without notes, Baltimore:
Penguin, 1972.
"The Proletarian Renascence: The Folkness of the Ideological
Folk." Journal of American Folklore, volume 82, number 323,
January-March 1969, pp. 51-65. Reprinted in The
Sounds of Social Change: Studies in Popular Culture, edited by R. Serge Denisoff
and Richard A. Peterson, Chicago: Rand McNally & Co., 1972,
pp. 105-120.
"Protest Movements: Class Consciousness and the Propaganda
Song." Sociological Quarterly, volume 9, number 2, Spring
1968, pp. 228-247.
Sing a Song of Social Significance. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling
Green University Popular Press, 1972.
Songs of Protest, War and Peace: A Bibliography
and Discography.
Santa Barbara: American Bibliographic Center, Clio Press, 1973.
"'Take It Easy, But Take It': The Almanac Singers." Journal
of American Folklore, volume 83, number 327, January-March 1970,
pp. 21-32.
[no author] "Dorsey Dixon: A Place in the Sun for a Real Textile Troubador." Textile
Labor, volume 25, number 11, November 1964, pp. 4-5.
Dreiser, Theodore, et. al.
Harlan Miners Speak: Report on Terrorism
in the Kentucky Coal Fields. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1932. Reprint edition, New
York: Da Capo Press, 1970.
Dunson, Josh.
"Songs of American Labor." Mainstream, volume 15, number
8, August 1962, pp. 44-55.
Emrich, Duncan.
"Songs of the Western Miners." California
Folklore Quarterly, volume 1, number 3, July 1942, pp. 213-232.
Evanson, Jacob A.
"Folksongs of an Industrial City." In Pennsylvania
Songs and Legends, edited by George Korson, Philadelphia: University
of Pennsylvania Press, 1949; reprint edition, Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins University Press, 1960, pp. 423-466.
Ewen, David.
All the Years of American Popular Music. Englewood Cliffs, NJ:
Prentice-Hall, 1977. "The Troubled Thirties: Workers of
America Arise," pp. 409-424.
Federal Writers Project, Nebraska.
"Farmers' Alliance Songs of the 1890s." Nebraska
Folklore Pamphlets, number 18, December 1938.
Feldman, Eugene P. Romayn.
"Union Maid Revisited: The Story of Ella May Wiggins." ABC
TV Hootenanny, volume 1, number 3, July 1964, pp. 25-26.
Foner, Philip S.
American Labor Songs of the Nineteenth Century. Urbana: University
of Illinois Press, 1975.
"Songs of the Eight-Hour Movement." Labor
History,
volume 13, number 4, Fall 1972, pp. 571-588.
Fowke, Edith.
"Labor and Industrial Protest Songs in Canada." Journal
of American Folklore, volume 82, number 323, January-March 1969,
pp. 34-50.
Fowke, Edith and Joseph Glazer.
Songs of Work and Freedom. Chicago: Roosevelt University, Labor
Education Division, 1960; Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1961.
Reprint edition, Songs of Work and Protest. New York: Dover,
1973.
Friedland, William H.
"American Labor Songs." Free Labor
World, number 121,
July 1960, pp. 294-300.
Glazer, Joseph.
"America is a Tune." USIA World, volume 10, number
1, July 1976, pp. 1, 11.
"Songs of the Worker's Struggle for Justice." American
Labour, volume 23, number 4, April 1968, pp. 11-15.
Glazer, Tom.
Songs of Peace, Freedom and Protest. New York: David McKay, 1970.
Reprint edition, New York: Fawcett World Library, 1971.
Green, Archie.
"American Labor Lore: Its Meanings and Uses." Industrial
Relations, volume 4, number 2, February 1965, pp. 51-68.
"Born on Picketlines, Textile Workers' Songs Are Woven
into History." Textile Labor, volume 22, number 4, April
1961, pp. 3-5.
"A Discography (LP) of American Labor Union Songs." New
York Folklore Quarterly, volume 17, number 3, Autumn 1961, pp.
186-193.
"A Discography of American Coal Miners' Songs." Labor
History, volume 2, number 1, 1961, pp. 101-115.
"John Neuhaus: Wobbly Folklorist." Journal
of American Folklore, volume 73, number 289, July-September 1960, pp. 189-217.
Reprinted in Folklore of the Great West, edited by John Greenway,
Palo Alto, CA: American West Publishing Co., 1969, pp.312-327.
Only a Miner: Studies in Recorded Coal-Mining
Songs. Urbana:
University of Illinois Press, 1972.
"Recorded Labor Songs: An Overview." Western
Folklore,
volume 27, number 1, January 1968, pp. 68-76.
"The Workers in the Dawn: Labor Lore." In Our
Living Traditions: An Introduction to American Folklore, edited by Tristram
P. Coffin, New York: Basic Books, 1968, pp. 251-262.
Green, Archie, ed.
"Aunt Molly Jackson Memorial Issue." Kentucky
Folklore Record, volume 7, number 4, October-December 1961, pp. 129-175.
Greenway, John.
American Folksongs of Protest. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania
Press, 1953. Reprint edition, New York: Octagon Books, 1970.
Hand, Wayland D.
"American Occupational and Industrial Folklore: The Miner." In
Kontakte und Grenzen: Probleme der Volks-,
Kultur- und Sozialforschung,
edited by Hans Foltin, Göttingen: Verlag Otto Schwartz, 1969,
pp. 453-460.
Hand, Wayland D. et al.
"Songs of the Butte Miners." Western
Folklore, volume
9, number 1, January 1950, pp. 1-49.
Hille, Waldemar.
The People's Songbook. New York: Boni and Gaer, 1948. Reprint
edition, New York: People's Artists, 1956. "Union Songs," pp.
66-96.
Joyner, Charles W.
"Up in Old Loray: Folkways of Violence in the Gastonia Strike." North
Carolina Folklore, volume 12, number 2, December 1964, pp. 20-24.
Kornbluh, Joyce.
Rebel Voices: An I.W.W. Anthology. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan
Press, 1964.
Korson, George.
"Anthracite Miners as Bards and Minstrels." American
Speech, volume 10, number 4, December 1935, pp. 260-268.
Coal Dust on the Fiddle: Songs and Stories
of the Bituminous Industry. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1943.
Reprint edition, Hatboro: PA: Folklore Associates, 1965.
"Coal Miners." In Pennsylvania
Songs and Legends,
edited by George Korson, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania
Press, 1949; reprint edition, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University
Press, 1960, pp. 354-400.
Minstrels of the Mine Patch: Songs and
Stories of the Anthracite Industry. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1938.
Reprint edition, Hatboro, PA: Folklore Associates, 1964.
Songs and Ballads of the Anthracite Miner. New York: Grafton,
1927.
Larkin, Margaret.
"Ella May's Songs." Nation, volume 129, October 9,
1929, pp. 382-383. Reprinted in Sing Out!, volume 5, number 4,
Autumn 1955, pp. 6-10.
Lengyel, Cornel.
A San Franciscso Songster. San Francisco: W.P.A. Northern California,
History of Music Project, 1939. (History of Music in San Francisco
Series, volume 2.) Reprint edition, New York: AMS Press, 1972.
Lomax, Alan, Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger.
Hard Hitting Songs for Hard-Hit People. New York: Oak Publications,
1967.
Monahan, Kathleen.
"Union Maid." Paid My Dues, volume 1, number 4, March
1975, pp. 26, 36.
[no author] "Mother Jones and the Singing Miners' Wives." Sing
Out!, volume 10, number 1, April-May 1960, pp. 21-22.
Reece, Florence.
"They Say Them Child Brides Don't Last." In Hillbilly
Women, edited by Kathy Kahn, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1973,
pp. 27-38.
Reuss, Richard A.
"The Ballad of 'Joe Hill' Revisited." Western
Folklore,
volume 26, number 3, July 1967, pp. 187-188.
"The Roots of American Left-Wing Interest in Folksong." Labor
History, volume 12, number 2, Spring 1971, pp. 259-279.
[no author] Ring Like Silver Shine Like Gold: Folklore
in the Labor Press.
Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, Festival of American
Folklife, Working Americans Program, 1976.
Rodnitzky, Jerome L.
"The Evolution of the American Protest Song." Journal
of Popular Culture, volume 3, number 1, Summer 1969, pp. 35-45.
[no author] "Roll The Union On." Fortune, volume 34, number 5,
November 1946, p. 184.
Rosen, David.
"The Wobblies." Kord, volume 2, number 2, 1971, pp.
12-20.
Rosenfeld, Morris.
Songs of Labor and Other Poems. Translated from the Yiddish by
Rose Pastor Stokes and Helena Frank. Boston: R. G. Badger,
1914.
Rubin, Ruth.
"A Comparative Approach to a Yiddish Song of Protest." Studies
in Ethnomusicology, volume 2, 1965, pp. 54-73.
Voices of a People: The Story of Yiddish
Folksong. New York:
A. S. Barnes, 1963. Second edition, New York: McGraw Hill, 1973.
Schaub, Joe.
"The Chicago I.W.W.: A Singing Union." Come
for to Sing, volume 3, number 1, Winter 1977, p. 10.
Scheips, Paul J.
Hold the Fort! The Story of a Song from
the Sawdust Trail to the Picket Line. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press,
1971. (Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology, number
9.)
Seeger, Pete.
"The Coal Creek Rebellion." Sing
Out!, volume 5, number
3, Summer 1955, pp. 19-21.
The Incompleat Folksinger. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1972. "Music
and Organized Labor," pp. 72-91.
"Whatever Happened to Singing in the Unions." Sing
Out!, volume 15, number 2, May 1965, pp. 28-31. Reprinted in
The Incompleat Folksinger, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1972,
pp. 74-77.
Senauke, Alan.
"You've Got to Reap Just What You Sow: Roots of Sing Out!
Magazine." Sing Out!, volume 25, number 1, January 1976,
pp. 3-7.
Silber, Irwin.
"Sing a Labor Song." Sing Out!, volume 1, number 1,
April 1951, pp. 6, 15.
Smith, Gibbs.
Joe Hill. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1969. "Joe
Hill's Songs," pp. 15-42.
[no author] Songs of the Workers.
Chicago: Industrial Workers of the World, 1909. 34th edition,
3rd printing, 1973. Title is Songs of
Life for editions 17
to 22.
Stanford, Ron.
"Which Side Are You On?: An Interview with Florence Reece." Sing
Out!, volume 20, number 6, July-August 1971, pp. 13-15.
Stavis, Barrie.
"Joe Hill: Poet/Organizer." Folk
Music, volume 1, number
1, June 1964, pp. 3-4, 38-50; [number 2], August 1964, pp. 27-29,
38-50.
Stavis, Barrie and Frank Harmon.
The Songs of Joe Hill. New York: People's Artists, 1955. Reprint
edition, New York: Oak Publications, 1960.
Stegner, S. Page.
"Labor History in Fact and Song." Caravan, number 20,
June-July 1960, pp. 8-16.
"Protest Songs from the Butte Mines." Western
Folkore,
volume 26, number 3, July 1967, pp. 157-167.
Stegner, Wallace.
"I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night." Pacific
Spectator,
volume 1, 1947, pp. 184-187.
"Joe Hill, The Wobblies Troubadour." New
Republic,
volume 118, number 1, January 5, 1948, pp. 20-24, 38.
Tamburro, Frances.
"The Factory Girl Song." Southern
Exposure, volume
2, number 1, 1974, pp. 42-51.
Tax, Meredith.
"Women's Songs." Sing Out!, volume 20, number 3, January-February
1971, pp. 11-15.
Tennessee State Library and Archives.
Registers, Number 6: Zilphia Horton Folk Music Collection. Nashville:
Tennessee State Library and Archives, 1964.
Thompson, Fred.
The I.W.W.: Its First Fifty Years. Chicago: Industrial Workers
of the World, 1955.
Tippett, Tom.
When Southern Labor Stirs. New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison
Smith, 1931.
[no author] "Troubadours of the Downtrodden." The
Carpenter,
volume 85, number 8, August 1965, pp. 10-12.
Walgreen, Alexander.
"The Story of 'Hold the Fort'." Sing
Out!, volume 5,
number 2, Spring 1955, pp. 22-23.
Ward, Harry F.
"Songs of Discontent." Methodist
Review, volume 95,
number 5, September-October 1913, pp. 720-729.
Welsch, Roger L.
A Treasury of Nebraska Pioneer Folklore. Lincoln: University
of Nebraska Press, 1967. "Songs of the Farmers' Alliance," pp.
57-79.
Whitman, Wanda Wilson.
Songs That Changed the World. New York: Crown Publications,
1969. "Work
Songs," pp. 58-75.
Wimberly, Lowry Charles.
"Hard Times Singing." American
Mercury, volume 32,
number 126, June 1935, pp. 197-202.
Wolfe, Charles K.
"New Light on 'The Coal Creek March'." JEMF
Quarterly,
volume 12, number 41, Spring 1976, pp. 1-8.
[no author] "Woody Guthrie and Sarah Ogan: Bards of the Other America." Record
Topics, number 2, pp. i-ii, inserted in English
Dance and Song,
volume 30, number 1, Spring 1968.
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