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What's the Use of Walking When There's a Freight Train Going Your Way? Black Hoboes and Their Songs Paperback - 2006

by Garon, Paul [Editor]; Tomko, Gene [Editor];


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Another wonderful slice of history, political, cultural, and social history. Better yet, it comes 'illustrated' with a CD, with 25 original recordings. Plus, of course, the work is full of the lyrics, art, and photographs of people, and their times. The music and poetry of black workers in motion - hoboing, hitchhiking, timbering, mining, railroading, loving, leaving, fighting back and searcing for a new job, a new life and even a new world are brilliantly recorded and explained in this arresting collection. [David Roediger] Paul Garon has produced yet another masterpiece of cultural history. The stories and songs he gathers together in this remarkable book disrupt common notions of what we mean by 'freedom' when it comes to black folk. Hoboes represented a significant segment of the black working class, and their constant movements were both evidence of constraints and acts of freedom. And as he so eloquently demonstrates, the men and women who took to the road and their bards have much to teach us about America's 'bottom rail.' [Robin D G Kelley]

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  • Title What's the Use of Walking When There's a Freight Train Going Your Way? Black Hoboes and Their Songs
  • Author Garon, Paul [Editor]; Tomko, Gene [Editor];
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 296
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Charles H. Kerr, Chicago
  • Date January 1, 2006
  • ISBN 9780882863061
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What's the Use of Walking When There's a Freight Train Going Your Way? Black Hoboes and Their Songs
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What's the Use of Walking When There's a Freight Train Going Your Way? Black Hoboes and Their Songs

by Paul [Editor]; Tomko, Gene [Editor]; Garon

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