Archie Green
The Making of a Working-Class Hero
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Product details:
- Edition number 1st Edition
- Publisher University of Illinois Press
- Date of Publication 4 October 2011
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9780252078286
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages232 pages
- Size 229x152x23 mm
- Weight 367 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 16 black and white photographs 0
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Archie Green: The Making of a Working-Class Hero celebrates one of the most revered folklorists and labor historians of the twentieth century. Devoted to understanding the diverse cultural customs of working people, Archie Green (1917–2009) tirelessly documented these traditions and educated the public about the place of workers' culture and music in American life. Doggedly lobbying Congress for support of the American Folklife Preservation Act of 1976, Green helped establish the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, a significant collection of images, recordings, and written accounts that preserve the myriad cultural productions of Americans.
Capturing the many dimensions of Green's remarkably influential life and work, Sean Burns draws on extensive interviews with Green and his many collaborators to examine the intersections of radicalism, folklore, labor history, and worker culture with Green's work. Burns closely analyzes Green's political genealogy and activist trajectory while illustrating how he worked to open up an independent political space on the American Left that was defined by an unwavering commitment to cultural pluralism.
Table of Contents:
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Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Foreword
Illustrations
Abbreviations
Introduction: Worker, Scholar, and Organizer
Part 1. Of Shreds and Patches: Early Political Formation
Chapter 1. Family, Revolution, and Emigration
Chapter 2. Boyle Heights in the 1920s
Chapter 3. Student Politics and Labor in the Thirties
Part 2. Triangle of Commitments: San Francisco Maritime Politics of the Thirties
Chapter 4. From Berkeley Stacks to Stake-Side Trucks
Chapter 5. ""Brother Slugging Brother"": Sailors, Longshoremen, and Legacies of the '34 Strike
Chapter 6. Harry Bridges and Reconsiderations of Communist Party History
Chapter 7. Union Service and Organizing World War II Veterans
Part 3. A Decent Philosophy: Culture, Politics and the American Folk Revivalism
Chapter 8. Folk Music and the American Communist Party
Chapter 9. Moments in the Making of a Laborlorist
Chapter 10. Vernacular Music and Cultural Pluralism
Part 4. ""Always on Stolen Time"": Folklore, Labor History, and Cultural Studies
Chapter 11. Alternative Popular Front Imaginary
Chapter 12. New Labor History and American Cultural Studies
Chapter 13. Laborlore: A Pedagogy of the Working Class
Epilogue: A Conversation with Archie
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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