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Author Honey, Michael K.

Title Sharecropper's troubadour : John L. Handcox, the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union, and the African American song tradition / Michael K. Honey.

Publication Info. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

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Location Call No. Status
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  782.4216 HON    Storage
Edition First edition.
Description xix, 210 pages ; 24 cm.
Series Palgrave studies in oral history
Palgrave studies in oral history.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Freedom after 'while : life and labor in the Jim Crow south -- Raggedy, raggedy are we : sharecropping and survival -- The planter and the sharecropper : the Southern Tenant Farmers Union -- There is mean things happening in this land : terror in Arkansas -- Join the union tonight : interracial organizing in Missouri -- Getting gone to the promised land : California -- I'm so glad to be here again : the return of John Handcox.
Subject African Americans -- Music -- History and criticism.
Handcox, John L., 1904-1992.
Sharecroppers -- United States -- Music -- History and criticism.
Southern Tenant Farmers' Union -- History.
ISBN 9780230111271 hardcover
0230111270 hardcover
9780230111288 paperback
0230111289 paperback
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