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Sharecropper's Troubadour - John L. Handcox, the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union, and the African American Song Tradition (Paperback, New)
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Sharecropper's Troubadour - John L. Handcox, the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union, and the African American Song Tradition (Paperback, New)
Series: Palgrave Studies in Oral History
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Descended from African American slaves, Native Americans, and white
slaveowners, John Handcox was born to a family of poor Arkansas
sharecroppers at one of the hardest times to be black in America.
Over the first few decades of the twentieth century, he survived
attempted lynchings, floods, droughts, and the ravages of the Great
Depression to organize black and white farmers alike on behalf of
the Southern Tenant Farmers Union. He also became one of the most
beloved folk singers of the prewar labor movement, composing songs
such as Roll the Union On and There Is Mean Things Happening in
this Land that bridged racial divides and kept the spirits of
striking workers high. Though he withdrew from the public eye for
nearly forty years, missing the folk boom of the 1960s, he
resurfaced decades later - just in time to denounce the policies of
the Reagan administration in song - and his work was embraced by
new generations of labor activists and folk music devotees. This
fascinating and beautifully told oral history gives us John Handcox
in his own words, recounting a journey that began in a
sharecropper's shack in the Deep South and went on to shape the
labor music tradition, all amid the tangled and troubled history of
the United States in the twentieth century.
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