The Big Red Songbook: 250-Plus IWW Songs
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Editor: Archie GreenEditor: David Roediger
Editor: Franklin Rosemont
Editor: Salvatore Salerno
Afterword: Utah Phillips
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-03-01
ISBN: 0882862774
Number of pages: 550
Publisher: Charles H Kerr
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Book Review: Big Red Songbook ... Yes
Summary: 5 Stars
As the owner of a number of Little Red Songbooks from the IWW, I was somewhat skeptical about the value of this book until I opened it. There was a wonderful review of the original Songbook Committee's efforts by Richard Brazier, one of the three men on that committee. While I had often heard about the Little Red Band, I had never seen a picture of the group until I opened the Big Red Songbook. Along the same line, there seem to be almost no images of JH Walsh, the man who dreamed up the idea of the Little Red Songbook, but there is one in the Big Red Songbook (holding his baritone in the Little Red Band). In short, this is a must purchase for anyone interested in the IWW and its historical place as the master of song parody.
Summary of The Big Red Songbook: 250-Plus IWW Songs
This is indeed an incredible endeavor. For sure the most comprehensive collection of rebel workers songs and poems ever compiled in English. It includes ALL the songs that appeared in the IWW s celebrated "little red songbook" from 1909 through 1973, plus dozens of others that never made it into the songbook. Here are the songs of Joe Hill, T-Bone Slim, Dick Brazier, Ralph Chaplin, Covington Hall and other Wobbly legends, as well as lesser known but ought-to-be legends such as Eugene Barnett, Paul Walker, and Henry Pfaff. For the first time anywhere, here's a good selection of songs by women Wobblies: Anges Thecla Fair, Laura Payne Emerson, Sophie Fagin, Jane Street, Laura Tanne and others, as well as songwriters from other continents--including Australians Bill Casey and Harry Hooton, the Englishman Leon Rosselson, Germans Ernest Riebe and John Olday, and the Scotsman Douglas Robson. A special section focuses on variants and parodies of IWW songs: a Depression-era version of "Hallelujah I'm a Bum," Jack Langan's 1960s version of "Solidarity Forever," an Earth First! adaptation of Joe Hill's "There is Power" by Walkin' Jim Stoltz, and Hazel Dickens' bold update of "The Rebel Girl." Best of all, perhaps, is the wealth of essays, analysis, references, bibliographies, and discographies, provided by Archie Green, his coeditors, and other collaborators, providing not only historical/biographical context, but also a wide range of perspectives on the Wobbly counterculture and its enduring legacies. With an afterword by Utah Phillips!Songbooks
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