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Cover StorySharecropper’s TroubadourPete Seeger introduced me to John Handcox by explaining that John was one of the twentieth century’s most important folk musicians. His songs and poems inspired Southern labor and civil rights movements in the 1930s...
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From the FieldMusical LaborThe Sukuma people perceive and experience musical labor as neither music nor labor but a performed behavior...
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Community SpotlightSolidarity Sing AlongThe Solidarity Sing Along has been taking place for more than eight hundred consecutive weekdays at the Wisconsin Capitol...
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video spotlightMusical Labor Performed in Northwest TanzaniaThe farmers from Kisessa village near Mwanza, Tanzania, build tie ridges—raised earthen mounds into which the cotton seeds are planted. The accompanying kadete (one-string fiddle) player regulates the pace of the workers and spurs them on. Recorded by Frank Gunderson.
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Albums
From the Collection
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Ella Jenkins and a Union of Friends Pulling TogetherElla Jenkins
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We Just Come to Work HereVarious Artists
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Songs of Struggle and Protest, 1930-50Pete Seeger
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Songs from the Haya people of Bukoba district, TanzaniaVarious Artists
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Union TrainJoe Glazer
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Working People Gonna Rise!The Human Condition with Beverly Grant
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