Work Songs Book

Contents

PREFACE....................ix
INTRODUCTION: Why Work Songs?....................1
1 The Hunter....................13
2 The Cultivator....................35
3 The Herder....................63
4 Thread and Cloth....................79
5 The New Rhythms of Work....................99
6 Sea and Shore....................115
7 The Lumberjack....................137
8 Take This Hammer!....................150
9 The Cowboy....................169
10 The Miner....................182
11 The Prisoner....................200
12 The Labor Movement and Songs of Work....................225
13 Music and the Modern Worker....................242
EPILOGUE: The Calling....................256
NOTES....................261
RECOMMENDED LISTENING....................305
BIBLIOGRAPHY....................313
INDEX....................337