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- Working Girl Blues: The Life and Music of Hazel Dickens
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: University of Illinois Press
- Series: Music in American Life
summary
Hazel Dickens was an Appalachian singer and songwriter known for her superb musicianship, feminist country songs, union anthems, and blue-collar laments. Growing up in a West Virginia coal mining community, she drew on the mountain music and repertoire of her family and neighbors when establishing her own vibrant and powerful vocal style that is a trademark in old-time, bluegrass, and traditional country circles. Working Girl Blues presents forty original songs that Hazel Dickens wrote about coal mining, labor issues, personal relationships, and her life and family in Appalachia. Conveying sensitivity, determination, and feistiness, Dickens comments on each song, explaining how she came to write them and what they meant and continue to mean to her. Bill C. Malone's introduction traces Dickens's life, musical career, and development as a songwriter, In addition, Working Girl Blues features forty-one illustrations and a detailed discography of Dickens's commercial recordings.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- p. ix
- Songs and Memories by Hazel Dickens
- pp. 31-86
- A Hazel Dickens Discography
- pp. 87-98
Additional Information
ISBN
9780252090974
Related ISBN(s)
9780252033049, 9780252075490
MARC Record
OCLC
809471478
Pages
144
Launched on MUSE
2013-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2007