Wake Up Dead Man : Hard Labor and Southern Blues

Name: Wake Up Dead Man
Brand: University of Georgia Press
SKU: 9780820321585
Price: 7800 KES
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ISBN: 9780820321585

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 0820321583

ISBN-13 9780820321585

Publisher University of Georgia Press

Imprint University of Georgia Press

Country of Manufacture US

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Dec 15th, 1999

Print length 352 Pages

Weight 634 grams

Dimensions 37.10 x 22.90 x 3.10 cms

Product Classification: Blues Popular music Cultural studies Ethnic studies / Ethnicity Cultural studies Black & Asian studies Penology and punishment Prisons

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Sixty-five work songs gathered in this eloquent dispatch from a brutal era of prison life in the Deep South. Through engagingly documented song arrangements and profiles of their singers, Jackson shows how such pieces are like no other folk music forms.

Making it in Hell, says Bruce Jackson, is the spirit behind the sixty-five work songs gathered in this eloquent dispatch from a brutal era of prison life in the Deep South. Through engagingly documented song arrangements and profiles of their singers, Jackson shows how such pieces as "Hammer Ring," "Ration Blues," "Yellow Gal," and "Jody's Got My Wife and Gone" are like no other folk music forms: they are distinctly African in heritage, diminished in power and meaning outside their prison context, and used exclusively by black convicts. The songs helped workers through the rigors of cane cutting, logging, and cotton picking. Perhaps most important, they helped resolve the men's hopes and longings and allowed them a subtle outlet for grievances they could never voice when face-to-face with their jailers.

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