...Nik Theodore This essay examines the role of arts and culture in processes of identity formation and collective action among day laborers in the United States. Focusing on the performance of “The Ballad of Industry,” a corrido (narrative poem set to music) that was written by a day laborer...

... the song might inhabit it. We wonder what it might mean for all of this to remain unresolved, and how to remain attuned to that irresolution as a form of planning social life. Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 Jazz post-punk dread soul musical labor References Balibar...

.... What some people find objectionable about both contemporary theory and contemporary music is a supposed lack of respect for the very institutions that make intellectual and musical labor pos­ sible (entrepreneurial capitalism, the university, the technology of the book or record). Undoubtedly, many...

..., 1937, on a weekend-only basis. As public response slowly swelled a new edition was prepared, and eventually a third, by which time Pins and Needles had moved on-Broadway and was on its way to estab­ lishing a ^re-Oklahoma! record for musicals of 1,108 performances. Although the general theme was labor...

... by-products of his labors. For example, an essay on applause begins: The custom of showing one s pleasure at beauti­ ful music by immediately following it with an ugly noise is perhaps as old as the art of music itself, and in the midst of this learned history of applause we find the choice yarn about...

... understanding in terms of the global economy is. In vernacular forms such as popular music, the experience of migrant labor can be conveyed as lived experience in an aesthetic mode similar to what used to be called social realism. To take two very different examples, contemporary Chicano/Mexican conjunto...

... of left-wing musicians and organizers that succeeded the Almanac Singers copyrighted Hootenanny as the title for its musical programs. People s Songs held hootenannies in large auditoriums and halls, relying on these events to raise money for other activities. Indeed, the hootenanny began to receive...

... labored for the amelioration of God's poor. Hood had sung the Song of the Shirt, and Mrs. Browning had reproduced in soul­ piercing music the Cry of the Children, but it remained for Lanier to enlist all the instruments of the orchestra against the monster dragon trade, whose maw is never filled...

... of dictionaries of the English and American language, of modern procedures in making a dictionary, and of the proper use of them. Considering Professor Hulbert s long career in teaching aspects of language at Chicago, his varied publications in Anglo-Saxon and Early English, and his labors as co-editor...

.... Formerly, the painful labor of sifting from the chaos of uni­ versal biography a table of names sufficiently large and repre­ sentative gave pause to the student of biography who had to do with the statistical side of his subject, and it is a matter of felicitation to the worker in this field...

...P. F. Baum Musical Influence on American Poetry . By Lenhart Charmenz S. : Athens : The University of Georgia Press , [ 1956 ]. Pp. xiii , 336 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1957 by Duke University Press 1957 Book Reviews 269 Professor Hulbert considers the epithet evolutionary...

... himself may have been reluctant to speak out on an issue. Both Sutton and the federation recognized class implications in the effort to do away with certain departments. The Journal of Labor got to the point early in the struggle over retrenchment: Public school music, elementary science, and handwork...

... to use folk music to build a reform movement based largely on labor unions. Labor, however, proved too conservative, and in 1949, after -thirty-three months of existence, People s Songs folded along with its ill-fated favorite candidate, Henry Wallace. People s Songs looked forward to gathering America...

..., a truly intuitive perception of the truths of life. As a musician he was instinctively constrained to sing these truths. As a scholar he applied to all of life the unending curiosity about things which is the poet s dower. Inevitably he did his clearest thinking upon questions con­ cerned with music...

..., and this process continues not only on the terrain of the former colonies but over re- maining enclaves of as-yet-unrationalized labor—for example, cattle ranch- ing, higher education—in the dominant countries. Tseng 2002.3.27 12:42...

... of fashion today. An unpredictable social process has made the denim clothing of rural farmers and urban laborers the fashionable style for affluent people at leisure. The image of women in country music, their styles and their music, will continue to be an arena where individual, gender, and class...

..., a playwright and critic as well as an English professor at the University of Maryland, envisioned this book as something akin to an epistolary novel and a reliable source-book for the scholar as well as an engaging story for the layman. His labors have obviously been arduous over a good many years...

... Angeles (2010) and coeditor of Global Downtowns (2012) and “Audio Work: Labor, Value, and the Making of Musical Aesthetics,” a special issue of Journal of Popular Music Stud­ ies (2012). Her work has appeared in Anthropological Quarterly, O-Zone: A Journal of Object-Oriented Studies, Space...

... crossed over into pop music and is now perceived as one of the industry s most respected and pro­ lific singer/songwriters. Her distinctive voice is noted for its lilting clarity and shimmer­ ing mountain tremolo, and her repertoire ranges from Appalachian ballads to AfricanAmerican gospel tunes...

... not itself do the labor of organization. It would even be an exaggeration to say that it enlightens or instructs. But nor does this music simply melt into the spectacle. Something in the music, some energy and not just the post-punks disinterest in and lack of commercial success supersedes its own...