NPR on Union/Work songs - excellent

Subject: NPR on Union/Work songs - excellent
From: GUEST,Mrrzy
Date: 05 Sep 06 - 01:37 PM

Did anybody catch this? I was coming back from a very long week of debauchery and didn't take in what I was listening to until too late to hear who it was about... very interesting stuff, though...

Subject: RE: NPR on Union/Work songs - excellent
From: GUEST,Mrr
Date: 05 Sep 06 - 01:55 PM

The piece was called Solidarity Forever, and here are the lyrics for that song. But they talked about Hallelujiah I'm A Bum, so it wasn't all about working!

Subject: RE: NPR on Union/Work songs - excellent
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 05 Sep 06 - 02:30 PM

All about the imminent publication of "The Big Red Songbook" -- a compilation of all the "Little Red Songbooks" of various years.

I missed the beginning, but Tom called me in to listen to most of it.

The whole piece should be available to download and listen to from the NPR website. It was a nicely done piece and I'm looking forward to hearing the whole thing.

Linn

Subject: RE: NPR on Union/Work songs - excellent
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 05 Sep 06 - 02:34 PM

Monday's "All Things Considered" --

Here's what it said at www.NPR.org (I searched for "Big Red Songbook" and it came up first) --

Industrial Workers' Songbook Gets Big Update
by Rachel Goodman

All Things Considered, September 4, 2006 · Music and singing has always been integral to the Industrial Workers of the World, a universal union for labor created in 1905. Since its creation in 1905, the IWW has published a Little Red Songbook with music that has been sung and played at rallies and demonstrations ever since.

Some of the songs have achieved anthem status like "Solidarity Forever," and others have been popular successes like "Hallelujah, I'm a Bum."

Folklorist Archie Green has compiled songs from all 39 editions of the Little Red Songbook into The Big Red Songbook.

Subject: RE: NPR on Union/Work songs - excellent
From: Dave Ruch
Date: 05 Sep 06 - 03:18 PM

There was a piece on All Things Considered last Sunday on the new book called "Work Songs", where the author, Ted Gioia (I think that's right), talks about the history of work songs.

Subject: RE: NPR on Union/Work songs - excellent
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 Sep 06 - 07:57 PM

I think they were doing something about labor songs each night of the weekend. It might be worth a search of each evening's program to see if that was the case. I didn't catch much programming over the weekend, and every time they did a teaser for the program discussed here I was ready, but it took them too long to get around to it. :-/

SRS

Subject: RE: NPR on Union/Work songs - excellent
From: Naemanson
Date: 06 Sep 06 - 05:03 PM

I heard the beginning of it but I was late for work and arrived part way through the broadcast.

You can hear the whole thing HERE .

Subject: RE: NPR on Union/Work songs - excellent
From: Naemanson
Date: 06 Sep 06 - 05:29 PM

Oops, my mistake. You cannot hear the whole broadcast there. But you can hear Joe Glazier singing Solidarity Forever.

Subject: RE: NPR on Union/Work songs - excellent
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 07 Sep 06 - 07:50 AM

The whole "All Things Considered" piece should be available to download and listen to -- search for "Big Red Songbook" which is what it announced.

I'm dashing off to work and can't do the blue clicky right now.

Linn

Subject: RE: NPR on Union/Work songs - excellent
From: Big Mick
Date: 07 Sep 06 - 10:12 AM

Here is the link.

THE BIG RED SONGBOOK

Subject: RE: NPR on Union/Work songs - excellent
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 07 Sep 06 - 01:38 PM

Thanks, Mick!

Linn