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  1. African American Folksong and American Cultural Politics: The Lawrence Gellert Story
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2013
    Story of the collection of African American folk music compiled by Lawrence Gellert. Compiled between the World Wars, the recordings were adopted by the American Left as the voice of the American proletariat, or "songs of protest."
  2. Almanac Singers
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    Resource Type: Article
    Group of American folk musicians specialized in topical songs, especially songs connected with union organizing.
  3. American Folksong Woody Guthrie
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1961
  4. Asch, Moses
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    Resource Type: Article
    Founder of Folkways Records. The label, founded in 1948, was instrumental in bringing folk music into the American mainstream. (1905-1986).
  5. Bound for Glory
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
    The autobiography of folk singer Woody Guthrie.
  6. Folkways Records
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    A record label that documents folk and world music.
  7. Horton, Zilphia
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    Resource Type: Article
  8. I'm Gonna Say It Now
    The Writings of Phil Ochs

    Resource Type: Book
  9. Labour Songs
    Resource Type: Audio
    Published: 1991
    1950-1985.
  10. Little Boxes and other handmade songs
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1964
    The best songs I write turn out to be something like folks songs because these traditional pieces say things the way I want to say them and am impelled to say them; they mean to speak surely and quietly, almost as an aside or half-heard observation, with a way of sticking in the memory as though they had something to say that you didn't catch the first time.
  11. The Man Who Recorded the World
    A Biography of Alan Lomax

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2011
    Documentarian of the folk culture of American life,, Lomax was diligent and tireless in preserving the irreplaceable vernacular cultures that have fallen into the past.
  12. The People's Song Book
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1956
    Songs of protest and affirmation. Foreword by Alan Lomax; preface by B.A. Botkin.
  13. Seeger, Pete
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    Resource Type: Article
    American folk singer. (Born 1919).
  14. Sex-Pol
    Essays 1929-1934

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
    Wilhelm Reich's writings from his Marxist period, outlining his thoughts about sexual and political liberation.
  15. Un Canadien errant
    Resource Type: Unclassified
    Published: 1842
    A Canadian folk song, lyrics written in 1842, about rebels who were deported, or forced to flee, after the rebellion of 1837-8 in Lower Canada. The song was also adopted by the descendants of Acadians who had been deported from Acadia in 1755-62, changed to 'Un Acadien errant.'
  16. The Weavers
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    American folk music quartet.


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