Dickens, Hazel, 1925-2011
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Dickens, Hazel, 1925-2011
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Dickens
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Hazel
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1925-2011
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Dickens, Hazel Jane, 1925-2011
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Dickens
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Hazel Jane
Date :
1925-2011
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Dickens, Hazel, 1935-2011
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Dickens
Forename :
Hazel
Date :
1935-2011
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Hazel Jane Dickens (1925*-2011) was an American bluegrass singer, songwriter, double bassist and guitarist. Her music was characterized not only by her high, lonesome singing style, but also by her provocative pro-union, feminist songs. Cultural blogger John Pietaro noted that "Dickens didn’t just sing the anthems of labor, she lived them and her place on many a picket line, staring down gunfire and goon squads, embedded her into the cause." The New York Times extolled her as "a clarion-voiced advocate for coal miners and working people and a pioneer among women in bluegrass music." With Alice Gerrard, Dickens was one of the first women to record a bluegrass album.
*Her year of birth is often misreported as 1935, but public records and her family confrim the 1925 date.
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https://viaf.org/viaf/72607282
https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5687875
https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n82013472
https://id.loc.gov/authorities/n82013472
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/68805206
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Social reformers
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Americans
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Folk singers
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Mercer County
WV, US
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Baltimore
MD, US
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Washington City
DC, US
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