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| Genre/Form: | Biography Biographies |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Glazer, Joe. Labor's troubadour. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2001 (OCoLC)617192142 |
| Named Person: | Joe Glazer; Joe Glazer; Joe Glazer |
| Material Type: | Biography, Government publication, State or province government publication |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Joe Glazer |
| ISBN: | 0252026128 9780252026126 |
| OCLC Number: | 43913066 |
| Description: | xvii, 299 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction -- Textile North -- Textile South -- The United Rubber Workers -- The United Automobile Workers -- The AFL-CIO -- Coal -- Politics -- Campaigning in presidential elections -- Working for the Foreign Service -- Living and working in Mexico -- Labor advisor to the U.S. Information Agency -- Singing overseas -- New voices, part 1 -- New voices, part 2 -- Wrapping up. |
| Series Title: | Music in American life. |
| Responsibility: | Joe Glazer. |
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"Glazer's aptly titled volume captures well his six-decade career as a labor performer and organizer... Highly recommended for libraries with an interest in musical history particularly in the context of recent social, labor, political, and cultural issues. " -- Choice "Makes you feel like you're there -- singing the songs and struggling for justice, dignity and respect." -- Solidarity ADVANCE PRAISE "In the years since Joe Glazer got his first mail-order guitar for $5.95, he's been singing the music of working people--everywhere from picket lines in the snow to giant union picnics to the White House lawn. In Labor's Troubadour Joe tells his own fascinating life story, which is both a great adventure and a journey for justice." -- John J. Sweeney, president, AFL-CIO "I've known Joe Glazer for fifty years. He's done an extraordinary job in his life, not letting people forget the great union songs." -- Pete Seeger "There is no better way to experience the excitement of the American labor movement, its victories and its defeats, than by reading Joe Glazer's Labor's Troubadour. It is a serious book; you relive labor and political history while turning its pages. But it is highly entertaining, a joy to read." -- Douglas Fraser, president emeritus, United Auto Workers "Joe Glazer has left a legacy of lasting value to the labor movement through his own songs and his recordings of union classics. In this book he shows how the songs came out of specific historical conditions and yet how they continue to express the aspirations and emotions of working men and women today. His story is unique and heartwarming, and he tells it with zest and brilliance in Labor's Troubadour. This is a major contribution to the musical folklore of the labor movement." -- Archie Green, labor folklorist "I first heard Joe Glazer perform his musical magic in 1944 when he began working for the Textile Workers Union of America. As a teacher, lecturer, and musician, he has been an inspiration to thousands of working people, blue collar and white collar alike. This book ... should be read by every trade union leader and made available to all local union officers." -- Sol Stetin, president emeritus, Textile Workers Union of America "Joe Glazer's memoir vividly recalls many of the central labor struggles of the last half-century and brings the reader to a renewed appreciation of the role of music in building social movements. Glazer's two chapters on younger singers shows the varied ways the generations that followed him are carrying on that tradition. An informative and engaging read!" -- Nick Salvatore, author of Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist "Although there are plenty of musicians who are performing labor songs, Joe Glazer is the only person around who worked within the mainstream union structure and kept music at the forefront of his work. The story of his life as a labor songsmith is absorbing and important." -- Bucky Halker, author of For Democracy, Workers, and God: Labor Song-Poems and Labor Protest, 1865-95 Read more...
