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The People's Song Book
“Home-made songs of protest and affirmation.” Published in 1948 by People’s Songs, an organization founded in the wake of World War II by Pete Seeger, Alan Lomax, and others “to create, promote, and distribute songs of labor and the American people."…
The Rebel Girl
"The Rebel Girl" is a song written by Joe Hill in 1911. The song was published in the Little Red Songbook of the Industrial Workers of the World, and as sheet music in 1915. Hill wrote the song for IWW orator Elizabeth Gurley Flynn.
The song was…
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They’ll Never Keep Us Down: Women’s Coal Mining Songs
They’ll Never Keep Us Down: Women’s Coal Mining Songs.
Mostly contemporary songs affirming the roles of women—as the wives
and daughters of miners or as miners themselves—in the tradition of
resistance and union activism within coal communities.
Mostly contemporary songs affirming the roles of women—as the wives
and daughters of miners or as miners themselves—in the tradition of
resistance and union activism within coal communities.
Workers of the World Awaken
The cover to the IWW song sheet version of Joe Hill's "Workers of the World Awaken" (10 1/2 x 13 1/2, 1918).