People's Song Library records, 1940-1970.

Guthrie, Woody, 1912-1967

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Woody Guthrie, American folk singer, born in Okemah, Oklahoma in 1912 and raised in Texas, moved to California during the Depression, where he met actor and activist Will Geer and toured migrant labor camps documenting conditions and injustices in the camps for The Light newspaper. He also performed on Los Angeles radio KFVD-LA, singing old-time ballads, some of which he updated with lyrics about contemporary issues. Alan Lomax, assistant in charge of the Archive of American Folk Song at the Lib...

Lomax, Alan, 1915-2002

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Seeger, Pete, 1919-2014

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Pete Seeger (1919-2014) was an American folk singer and social activist. As a member of the Weavers, Seeger was often heard on the radio in the early 1950s, most notably on their recording of Lead Belly's "Goodnight, Irene". In the 1960s, Seeger re-emerged on the public scene as a prominent singer of protest music in support of international disarmament, civil rights, counterculture, workers' rights, and environmental causes. A prolific songwriter, his best-known songs include "Where Have ...

Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990

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Aaron Copland (1900-1990) was an American composer. During the years 1964 and 1965 Copland wrote, conducted, narrated, and hosted a series of twelve television programs entitled Music in the 20s = Music in the Twenties. The transcripts described in this collection were transcribed from filmed interviews recorded live at the WGBH studios in Boston, Mass. between 1964 Nov. 11 and 1965 Jan. 26. These unedited, preliminary tape recordings later formed the basis of the series...

Cunningham, Agnes, 1923-

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Industrial Workers of the World

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The IWW is a labor organization dedicated to uniting laborers around the world into a single large union. From the description of Collection 1916-1939. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 778701431 Established in Chicago in 1905 by sponsors of socialism and the remnants of previous labor unions, including the Knights of Labor, Western Federation of Miners and the American Labor Union, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), or "Wobblies", evolved into a radical industrial unio...

Terry, Sonny

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Jackson, Aunt Molly

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People's Song Library

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Hays, Lee, 1914-1981

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Leadbelly, 1885-1949

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Traum, Happy

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Segal, Edith, 1902-

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New York dancer, teacher, and writer, b.1902-d.1997, whose work was closely allied to her political activism. From the description of Edith Segal Papers, 1920-1997. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122487746 Edith Segal was an American dancer, teacher and writer. Born in 1902 on the lower east side of New York City, her father was a cigar maker and an active union member. Her mother ran a small business out of the house as a hairdresser and maker o...

Robinson, Earl, 1910-1991

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Lampell, Millard, 1919-1997

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Silber, Irwin, 1925-2010

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Allan, Lewis, 1903-1986

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Lewis Allan was the pen name of Abel Meeropol (1903-1986), a Jewish American writer and poet. He wrote numerous songs and poems, including hit songs for Frank Sinatra and Peggy Lee, and taught at DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx. One of his pieces, the anti-lynching poem "Strange Fruit," was performed by Billie Holliday, set to music written by Meeropol; the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1978. Meeropol and his wife were also the adoptive parents of the young sons of Ju...

Paxton, Tom, 1937-....

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Hill, Joe, 1879-1915

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Reynolds, Malvina

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Ochs, Phil

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Dunson, Josh, 1941-....

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White, J.

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Justus, May, 1898-1989

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Badeaux, Ed, 1926-

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Seeger, Peggy, 1935-....

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Hille, Waldemar, 1908-1995

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