Depression Folk
Grassroots Music and Left-Wing Politics in 1930s America
By Ronald D. Cohen
218 pp., 5.5 x 8.5, 15 halftones, notes, index
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Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-2881-3
Published: September 2016 -
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4696-3046-5
Published: October 2016 -
E-book EPUB ISBN: 978-1-4696-2882-0
Published: August 2016 -
E-book PDF ISBN: 979-8-8908-4934-2
Published: August 2016
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Ronald D. Cohen is emeritus professor of history at Indiana University Northwest.
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“Successfully weaves together some of the important people engaged with left-wing music in this era and draws attention to the importance of of music to a historical understanding of the 1930s.”--Arkansas Historical Quarterly
“Cohen’s approachable writing style makes this book appropriate for general readers as well as scholars of folk music, cultural history, and American politics. Highly recommended.”--Choice
“A book that is made to order for anyone who wants to understand where folk music came from and what the 1930s sounded like.”--Labour/Le Travail
“A primer for anyone looking for an overview of the vernacular music that contained political commentary during this tumultuous yet pivotal American decade.”--Journal of Southern History
"Through the insightful lens of music, Ronald D. Cohen reveals a definitive narrative of labor struggles, politics, leftist thought, and the effects of the Great Depression on everyday Americans during this tumultuous era in our nation’s history."--Ron Pen, University of Kentucky
"Ronald D. Cohen has written a compelling, engaging, and highly readable account of the indelible, influential, and important style of music we associate with the Great Depression. A much-needed work that fills a void in the scholarship of the labor movement and folk music in the 1930s."--Timothy Lynch, author of Strike Songs of the Depression