Pistol Packin' Mama: Aunt Molly Jackson and the Politics of FolksongUniversity of Illinois Press, 1999 - 239 pàgines Meet Aunt Molly Jackson (1880-1960), one of American folklore's most fascinating characters. A coal miner's daughter, she grew up in eastern Kentucky, married a miner, and became a midwife, labor activist, and songwriter. Fusing hard experience with rich Appalachian musical tradition, her songs became weapons of struggle. In 1931, at age fifty, she was "discovered" and brought north, sponsored and befriended by an illustrious circle of left-wing intellectuals and musicians, including Theodore Dreiser, Alan Lomax, and Charles Seeger and his son Pete. Along with Sarah Ogan Gunning, Jim Garland (two of Aunt Molly's half-siblings), Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly, and other folk musicians, she served as a cultural broker, linking the rural working poor to big-city left-wing activism. Shelly Romalis draws upon interviews and archival materials to construct this portrait of an Appalachian woman who remained radical, raucous, proud, poetic, offensive, self-involved, and in spirit the "real" pistol packin' mama of the song. "Mr. Coal operator call me anything you please, blue, green, or red, I aim to see to it that these Kentucky coalminers will not dig your coal while their little children are crying and dying for milk and bread." -- Aunt Molly Jackson |
Continguts
Hard Times in Colemans Mines Coal and Community in the Kentucky Mountains | 21 |
I Am a Union Woman The Communist National Miners Union Comes to Harlan County Kentucky | 31 |
AUNT MOLLYS AND SARAHS LIFE | 55 |
I Was Born and Raised in Old Kentucky Aunt Molly Jacksons First Fifty Years | 57 |
Christmas Eve on the East Side Aunt Molly Moves to New York City | 89 |
Girl of Constant Sorrow Mollys Sister Sarah Ogan Gunning | 127 |
MUSIC POLITICS AND WOMENS RESISTANCE | 149 |
White Pilgrims in the Foreign Heathen Country Molly Sarah and the Politics of Folksong | 151 |
Dreadful Memories ClassConscious Wives Radical Mothers | 174 |
Be a Grievin after Me | 193 |
Notes | 207 |
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Pistol Packin' Mama: Aunt Molly Jackson and the Politics of Folksong Shelly Romalis Visualització de fragments - 1999 |
Pistol Packin' Mama: Aunt Molly Jackson and the Politics of Folksong Shelly Romalis Visualització de fragments - 1999 |
Pistol Packin' Mama: Aunt Molly Jackson and the Politics of Folksong Shelly Romalis Previsualització no disponible - 1999 |
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