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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