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A Selection of Print Resources Available at the Oberlin College Libraries:

• Adler, William M. The man who never died: the life, times, and legacy of Joe Hill, American labor icon. Bloomsbury, 2011.

• Bobetsky, Victor V. We shall overcome: essays on a great American song. Rowman & Littlefield, 2015.

• Carawan, Guy, and Candie Carawan. Voices from the mountains. Alfred A. Knopf, 1975.

• Cohen, Norm, and David Cohen. Long steel rail: the railroad in American folksong. University of Illinois Press, 2000.

• Cohen, Ronald D. Work and sing: a history of occupational and labor union songs in the United States. Carquinez Press, 2010.

• Cohen, Ronald D. Depression folk: grassroots music and left-Wing politics in 1930s America. University of North Carolina Press, 2016.

• Cunningham, Sis, and Gordon Friesen. Red Dust and Broadsides: A Joint Autobiography. University of Massachusetts Press, 1999.

• Denisoff, R. S. Sing a song of social significance. Bowling Green State Univ. Popular Pr., 1983.

• Denning, Michael. The cultural front: the laboring of American culture in the Twentieth Century. Verso, 1998

• Dickens, Hazel, and Bill C. Malone. Working girl blues: the life and music of Hazel Dickens. Univ. of Illinois Press, 2008.

• Epstein, Lawrence J. Political folk music in America from its origins to Bob Dylan. McFarland, 2010.

• Foner, Philip S. (Philip Sheldon). American labor songs of the nineteenth century. 1975.

• Fowke, Edith, et al. Songs of work and protest. Dover Publ., 1973.

• Glazer, Joe. Labors troubadour. University of Illinois Press, 2002.

• Green, Archie. Wobblies, pile butts, and other heroes: laborlore explorations. University of Illinois Press, 1993.

• Green, Archie. Only a miner: studies in recorded coal-Mining songs. University of Illinois Press, 1972.

• Reuss, Richard A., and Archie Green. Songs about work: essays in occupational culture for Richard A. Reuss. Folklore Institute, Indiana University, 1993.

• Green, Archie, and Judy Branfman. The big red songbook. Charles H. Kerr, 2007.

• Greenway, John. American Folksongs of Protest. Octagon Books, 1970.

• Hampton, Wayne. Guerrilla minstrels: John Lennon, Joe Hill, Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan. University of Tennessee Press, 1986.

• Jones, Phyllis J. Every Monday morning: a discography of American labor
  songs in the Conservatory Library at Oberlin College. Oberlin College Library, 1993.

• Koppelman, Robert S., and Lee Hays. "Sing out, warning! sing out, love!": the writings of Lee Hays. University of Massachusetts Press, 2003.

• Honey, Michael K. Sharecroppers troubadour: John L. Handcox, the Southern Tenant Farmers Union, and the African American song tradition. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

• Kornbluh, Joyce L., et al. Rebel voices: an I.W.W. anthology. Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company, 1988.

• Korson, George Gershon. Minstrels of the mine patch: songs and stories of the anthracite industry. University of Pennsylvania press, 1938.

• Lieberman, Robbie. My song is my weapon: Peoples songs, American communism and the politics of culture, 1930-50. University of Illinois Press, 1989.

• Lynch, Timothy P. Strike songs of the depression. University Press of Mississippi, 2001.

• Lynskey, Dorian. 33 revolutions per minute. Faber, 2011.

• Morgan, Elizabeth, and Utah Phillips. Socialist and labor songs: an international revolutionary songbook. PM Press, 2014.

• Redmond, Shana L. Anthem: social movements and the sound of solidarity in the African diaspora. NYU Press, 2013.

• Reuss, Richard A. Songs of American labor, industrialization, and the urban work experience: a discography. Program on Workers Culture, Labor Studies Center, Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, University of Michigan, 1983.

• Rojas, Eunice, and Lindsay Michie Eades. Sounds of Resistance The Role of Music in Multicultural Activism. Vol. 1, Praeger, 2013.

• Romalis, Shelly. Pistol packin Mama: Aunt Molly Jackson and the politics of folksong. University of Illinois Press, 1999.

• Roscigno, Vincent J., and William F. Danaher. The voice of southern labor: radio, music, and textile strikes, 1929-1934. University of Minnesota Press, 2004.

• Rosenthal, Rob, and Richard Flacks. Playing for change: music and musicians in the service of social movements. Paradigm, 2011.

• Roy, William G. Reds, whites, and blues social movements, folk music, and race in the United States. Princeton University Press, 2010.

• Seeger, Pete, and Bob Reiser. Carry it on!: a history in song and picture of the working men and women of America. Simon and Schuster, 1985.

• Spener, David. We shall not be moved/No nos moverán: biography of a song of struggle. Temple University Press, 2016.

• Weissman, Dick. Talkin bout a Revolution: Music and Social Change in America. Backbeat Books, 2010.

• Willens, Doris. Lonesome traveler: the life of Lee Hays. Norton, 1988.

• Wolff, Daniel J. Grown-up anger: the connected mysteries of Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, and the Calumet massacre of 1913. Harper, 2017.

Dive deeper into the history of the American labor movement and the history of its music by exploring the following sites:

• Helgeson, Jeffrey. "American Labor and Working-Class History, 1900–1945." Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History. 2016-08-31. Oxford University Press. Date of access 30 Jan. 2018, <http://americanhistory.oxfordre.com/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780199329175.001.0001/acrefore-9780199329175-e-330>
 
• Honey, Michael. "Sharecropper’s Troubadour: Songs of Solidarity in Hard Times." Online Text. Retrieved from the Smithsonain Folkways Magazine, &alt;<https://folkways.si.edu/magazine-summer-fall-2014-sharecroppers-troubadour-songs-of-solidarity-in-hard-times/article/smithsonianTimes< /a>>
 
• O'Brien, Michael S. "Wisconsin’s Solidarity Sing Along." Online Text. Retrieved from the Smithsonian Folkways Magazine, <https://folkways.si.edu/magazine-summer-fall-2014-wisconsins-solidarity-sing-along-making-old-labor-songs-new/article/smithsonian/>
 
• Ruehl, Kim. "Where Are They Now?: 7 Protest Songs With Legs." Online Text. Retrieved from National Public Radio, Inc., <https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2011/10/14/141316750/where-are-they-now-7-protest-songs-with-legs/>
 
• "Songs of Unionization, Labor Strikes, and Child Labor." Online Text. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <https://www.loc.gov/item/ihas.200197381/>.
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