Sing Out, Warning!, Sing Out, Love

by Koppelman, Robert S.; Seeger, Pete; HAYS, LEE

• ISBN13: 9781558494237
• ISBN10: 1558494235
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-01-01
• Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Pr
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Summary

A selection of the writings of a legendary folksinger and political activist.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Pete Seeger	xiii
Preface	xv
Acknowledgments	xxi
Chronology	xxiii
Introduction: Lee Hays, American Culture, and the American Left
PART I The Times
[I] The 1930's: Early Years in the South, Awakening to Left-wing Culture, Organizing the Rural Southern Poor	1	(74)
From "The 'Post-humour' Memoirs"	53	(5)
"Wants Communist Poetry"	58	(2)
"Let the Will..."	60	(3)
"The First Zipper Song"	63	(2)
Untitled column on the power of hymn-singing	65	(2)
"The Singing Preacher"	67	(4)
Untitled column on Emma Dusenberry	71	(4)
[II] The 1940's: Beginnings of a Performance Career, New York, the Almanac Singers, People's Songs, the Peekskill Riot, and the Formation of the Weavers	75	(26)
From "The 'Post-humous' Memoirs"	79	(4)
Untitled columns on the history of the Almanac Singers	83	(5)
"A Sermon to Songwriters"	88	(2)
"Walk Along Together"	90	(3)
"The Rankin Tree" 92
"Talking Bilbo"	93	(2)
"Simon McKeever at Peekskill"	95	(5)
"Hold the Line"	100	(1)
[III] The 1950's: The Weavers, Pop Charts to Blacklist	101	(22)
From "The 'Post-humous' Memoirs" 102
"Wasn't That a Time!"	113	(1)
"The Lonesome Traveler" (early draft)	114	(1)
"Kisses Sweeter Than Wine" (early draft)	115	(1)
On testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee	116	(1)
Excerpts from testimony of August 16, 1955	116	(7)
PART II Cultural Perspectives
[IV] Beginnings of a Folk Music Revival	123	(44)
"The Folk Song Bridge: A Personal Journey"	124	(13)
"Edward, Edward"	137	(6)
"How to Become a Folk Singer"	143	(5)
"Let's Have More Common Sense about Folk Music"	148	(1)
"On Woody"	149	(18)
[V] Some Literary Experiments	167	(52)
"The Incidence of the Word 'Roll' in American Folk Music"	168	(1)
"What c in a Rhyme?"	169	(3)
"On the Banks of the Ohio"	172	(6)
"Banquet and a Half"	178	(5)
"Pour on Water"	183	(5)
"Falling Down, Falling Down"	188	(5)
"Booker Tee and Me"	193	(10)
From "A Patchwork Ballad"	203	(4)
Stage monologues	207	(4)
"The Sweet Little Babe"	211	(1)
'Deadbuggy"	212	(1)
"Only Friends and Lovers Should Wink"	212	(1)
"Guess Who:"	213	(1)
"Elegy" ('Farewell, Little Toe)	214	(1)
"The Grateful Dead"	215	(1)
"All Things but One"	215	(1)
"In Dead Ernest"	216	(1)
"Amicus Curiae" ("To Know Good Will")	217	(2)
Additional Writings by Lee Hays	219	(4)
Selected Bibliography	223	(4)
Discography	227	(2)
Sources and Permissions	229