Which Side Are You On? The Story of a Song - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Which Side Are You On? The Story of a Song write by George Ella Lyon. This book was released on 2014-01-01. Which Side Are You On? The Story of a Song available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Which Side Are You On? tells the story of the classic union song that was written in 1931 by Florence Reece in a rain of bullets. It has been sung by people fighting for their rights all over the world. Florence's husband Sam was a coal miner in Kentucky. Many of the coal mines were owned by big companies, who kept wages low and spent as little money on safety as possible. Miners lived in company houses on company land and were paid in scrip, good only at the company store. The company owned the miners sure as sunrise. That's why they had to have a union. Miners went on strike until they could get better pay, safer working conditions, and health care. The company hired thugs to attack union organizers like Sam Reece. George Ella Lyon tells this hair-raising story through the eyes of one of Florence's daughters, a dry-witted, pig-tailed gal whose vantage point is from under the bed with her six brothers and sisters. The thugs' bullets hit the thin doors and windows of the company house and the kids lying low wonder whether they're going to make it out of this alive; wonder exactly if this strike will make their lives better or end them, but their mother keeps scribbling and singing. "We need a song," she tells her kids. That's not at all what they think they need. Graphic novelist Christopher Cardinale brings Florence's triumphant story to life in true rip-roaring union style. Selected as an IRA Notable Book for a Global Society and a 2012 Skipping Stones Honor Book.
Which Side Are You On?
Which Side Are You On? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Which Side Are You On? write by Elaine Harger. This book was released on 2016-02-26. Which Side Are You On? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Shattering any idea that librarianship is a politically neutral realm, this insider's account of seven debates from the floor of the American Library Association Council illustrates the mechanisms the governing body used to maintain the status quo on issues like racism, government surveillance and climate change. At play in each debate are rules of parliamentary procedure, appeals to authority, denial, and chastisement of librarians who pushed the ALA to make real its commitments to human rights and social justice. Providing a fascinating look at the Council's inner workings, the author parses debates concerning anti-apartheid boycotts; partnerships between ALA, McDonald's and the Boy Scouts of America; spying by the National Security Agency; censorship in Israel and the Occupied Territories; fossil fuel industry divestment; and the recent revival by ALA's Office of Intellectual Freedom of the infamous film The Speaker.
Which Side Are You On?
Which Side Are You On? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Which Side Are You On? write by Dick Weissman. This book was released on 2006-01-01. Which Side Are You On? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A history, with a personal touch, of the American folk music revival is penned by a recording artist, songwriter, and former member of the Journeymen.
Which Side Are You On?
Which Side Are You On? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Which Side Are You On? write by James Sullivan. This book was released on 2018-12-03. Which Side Are You On? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When he emerged from the nightclubs of Greenwich Village, Bob Dylan was often identified as a "protest" singer. As early as 1962, however, Dylan was already protesting the label: "I don't write no protest songs," he told his audience on the night he debuted "Blowin' in the Wind." "Protest" music is largely perceived as an unsubtle art form, a topical brand of songwriting that preaches to the converted. But popular music of all types has long given listeners food for thought. Fifty years before Vietnam, before the United States entered World War I, some of the most popular sheet music in the country featured anti-war tunes. The labor movement of the early decades of the century was fueled by its communal "songbook." The Civil Rights movement was soundtracked not just by the gorgeous melodies of "Strange Fruit" and "A Change Is Gonna Come," but hundreds of other gospel-tinged ballads and blues. In Which Side Are You On, author James Sullivan delivers a lively anecdotal history of the progressive movements that have shaped the growth of the United States, and the songs that have accompanied and defined them. Covering one hundred years of social conflict and progress across the twentieth century and into the early years of the twenty-first, this book reveals how protest songs have given voice to the needs and challenges of a nation and asked its citizens to take a stand--asking the question "Which side are you on?"
Performing Motherhood; Artistic, Activist and Everyday Enactments
Performing Motherhood; Artistic, Activist and Everyday Enactments - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Performing Motherhood; Artistic, Activist and Everyday Enactments write by Amber E Jinser. This book was released on 2014-12-01. Performing Motherhood; Artistic, Activist and Everyday Enactments available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Performing Motherhood explores relationships between performativity and the maternal. Highlighting mothers’ lived experiences, this collection examines mothers’ creativity and agency as they perform in everyday life: in mothering, in activism, and in the arts. Chapters contain theoretically grounded works that emerge from multiple disciplines and cross-disciplines and include first-person narratives, empirical studies, artistic representations, and performance pieces. This book focuses on motherwork, maternal agency, mothers’ multiple identities and marginalized maternal voices, and explores how these are performatively constituted, negotiated and affirmed.
