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Wake Up Dead Man: Hard Labor and Southern Blues Paperback - 1999

by Bruce Jackson (Editor)


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Making it in Hell, says Bruce Jackson, is the spirit behind the sixty-five work songs gathered in this eloquent dispatch from a brutal era of prison life in the Deep South. Through engagingly documented song arrangements and profiles of their singers, Jackson shows how such pieces as "Hammer Ring," "Ration Blues," "Yellow Gal," and "Jody's Got My Wife and Gone" are like no other folk music forms: they are distinctly African in heritage, diminished in power and meaning outside their prison context, and used exclusively by black convicts. The songs helped workers through the rigors of cane cutting, logging, and cotton picking. Perhaps most important, they helped resolve the men's hopes and longings and allowed them a subtle outlet for grievances they could never voice when face-to-face with their jailers.

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  • Title Wake Up Dead Man: Hard Labor and Southern Blues
  • Author Bruce Jackson (Editor)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 352
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Georgia Press, USA
  • Date 1999-12-15
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780820321585 / 0820321583
  • Weight 1.38 lbs (0.63 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.99 x 6 x 0.92 in (22.83 x 15.24 x 2.34 cm)
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
  • Library of Congress subjects Prisoners' songs - Texas, African American prisoners - Texas
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00698427
  • Dewey Decimal Code 782.421

About the author

BRUCE JACKSON is SUNY Distinguished Professor and Samuel P. Capen Professor of American Culture at the State University of New York at Buffalo and former president of the American Folklore Society.
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