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245 10 a| Pistol packin' Mama :b| Aunt Molly Jackson and the politics of folksong /c| Shelly Romalis.;

300 a| xi, 239 pages, 12 pages of plates :b| illustrations ;c| 24 cm.;

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338 a| volume2| rdacarrier;

490 1 a| Music in American life;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-228) and index.;

505 0 a| "Hard times in Coleman's mines": coal and community in the Kentucky mountains -- "I am a union woman": the Communist National Miners Union comes to Harlan County, Kentucky -- "I was born and raised in old Kentucky": Aunt Molly Jackson's first fifty years -- "Christmas Eve on the East Side": Aunt Molly moves to New York City -- "Girl of constant sorrow": Molly's sister, Sarah Ogan Gunning -- "White pilgrims in the foreign heathen country": Molly, Sarah, and the politics of folksong -- "Dreadful memories": class-conscious wives, radical mothers -- Reflections: "Be a grievin' after me".;

520 a| Meet Aunt Molly Jackson (1880-1960), one of American folklore's most fascinating characters. A coal miner's daughter, she grew up in eastern Kentucky, married a miner, and became a midwife, labor activist, and songwriter. Fusing hard experience with rich Appalachian musical tradition, her songs became weapons of struggle. In 1931, at age fifty, she was discovered and brought north, sponsored and befriended by an illustrious circle of left-wing intellectuals and musicians, including Theodore Dreiser, Alan Lomax, and Charles Seeger and his son Pete. Along with Sarah Ogan Gunning, Jim Garland (two of Aunt Molly's half-siblings), Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly, and other folk musicians, she served as a cultural broker, linking the rural working poor to big-city left-wing activism. The author draws upon interviews and archival materials to construct this portrait of an Appalachian woman who remained radical, raucous, proud, poetic, offensive, self-involved, and in spirit the real pistol packin' mama of the song.;

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650 0 a| Protest songsz| United Statesx| History and criticism.=| ^A1013709;

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Pistol packin' Mama : Aunt Molly Jackson and the politics of folksong / Shelly Romalis.

Author/creator	Romalis, Shelly, 1939-
Format	Book
Publication Info	Urbana : University of Illinois Press, ©1999.
Description	xi, 239 pages, 12 pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects	Jackson, Aunt Molly. Singers--United States. --Biography. Protest songs--United States. --History and criticism.

Series	Music in American life Music in American life. ^A223005
Contents	"Hard times in Coleman's mines": coal and community in the Kentucky mountains -- "I am a union woman": the Communist National Miners Union comes to Harlan County, Kentucky -- "I was born and raised in old Kentucky": Aunt Molly Jackson's first fifty years -- "Christmas Eve on the East Side": Aunt Molly moves to New York City -- "Girl of constant sorrow": Molly's sister, Sarah Ogan Gunning -- "White pilgrims in the foreign heathen country": Molly, Sarah, and the politics of folksong -- "Dreadful memories": class-conscious wives, radical mothers -- Reflections: "Be a grievin' after me".
Abstract	Meet Aunt Molly Jackson (1880-1960), one of American folklore's most fascinating characters. A coal miner's daughter, she grew up in eastern Kentucky, married a miner, and became a midwife, labor activist, and songwriter. Fusing hard experience with rich Appalachian musical tradition, her songs became weapons of struggle. In 1931, at age fifty, she was discovered and brought north, sponsored and befriended by an illustrious circle of left-wing intellectuals and musicians, including Theodore Dreiser, Alan Lomax, and Charles Seeger and his son Pete. Along with Sarah Ogan Gunning, Jim Garland (two of Aunt Molly's half-siblings), Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly, and other folk musicians, she served as a cultural broker, linking the rural working poor to big-city left-wing activism. The author draws upon interviews and archival materials to construct this portrait of an Appalachian woman who remained radical, raucous, proud, poetic, offensive, self-involved, and in spirit the real pistol packin' mama of the song.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-228) and index.
LCCN	98019726
ISBN	0252024214 (acid-free paper)
ISBN	0252067282 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

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