Title Wake up dead man : hard labor and Southern blues / collected and edited by Bruce Jackson ; with a new preface

Published Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, 1999

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Location	Call no.	Vol.	Availability
MELB	782.4216200869 Jac/Wud		AVAILABLE

Description xxvi, 326 pages, 25 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, music, portraits ; 23 cm Notes Originally published under the title: Wake up dead man : Afro-American worksongs from Texas prisons. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1972 "Brown Thrasher books." Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-320) and index Subject African Americans -- Texas -- Music Prisoners' songs -- Texas Work songs -- Texas Genre/Form Music. ISBN 0820321583 (pbk.) 9780820321585 (pbk.)

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