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Genre/Form: | Biography Biographies Criticism, interpretation, etc Biografie |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Romalis, Shelly, 1939- Pistol packin' Mama. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, ©1999 (OCoLC)639354912 |
Named Person: | Aunt Molly Jackson; Aunt Molly Jackson; Aunt Molly Jackson; Aunt Molly Jackson; Aunt Molly Jackson; Sarah Ogan Gunning |
Material Type: | Biography, Government publication, State or province government publication |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Shelly Romalis |
ISBN: | 0252024214 9780252024214 0252067282 9780252067280 |
OCLC Number: | 39033302 |
Description: | xi, 239 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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." |
Series Title: | Music in American life. |
Responsibility: | Shelly Romalis. |
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"An excellent and highly readable book about an extraordinary character." -- Alessandro Portelli, The Journal of American History
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