Working Girl Blues: The Life and Music of Hazel Dickens - Brossura

Dickens, Hazel; Malone, Bill C.

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ISBN 10: 0252075498 ISBN 13: 9780252075490

Casa editrice: Univ of Illinois Pr, 2008

Riassunto

Hazel Dickens is an Appalachian singer and songwriter known for her superb musicianship, feminist country songs, union anthems, and blue-collar laments. Growing up in a West Virginia coal mining community, she drew on the mountain music and repertoire of her family and neighbors when establishing her own vibrant and powerful vocal style that is a trademark in old-time, bluegrass, and traditional country circles. Working Girl Blues presents forty original songs that Hazel Dickens wrote about coal mining, labor issues, personal relationships, and her life and family in Appalachia. Conveying sensitivity, determination, and feistiness, Dickens comments on each of her songs, explaining how she came to write them and what they meant and continue to mean to her. Bill C. Malone's introduction traces Dickens's life, musical career, and development as a songwriter, and the book features forty-one illustrations and a detailed discography of her commercial recordings.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Bill C. Malone is a professor emeritus of history at Tulane University. He is the author of several books, including Don't Get above Your Raisin': Country Music and the Southern Working Class.

Product Description:

Book by Dickens Hazel Malone Bill C

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of Illinois Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0252075498
• ISBN 13: 9780252075490
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 102