Wake Up Dead Man

Hard Labor and Southern Blues

By: Bruce Jackson (Editor)

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Paperback | 15 December 1999

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352 Pages

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<p>Making it in Hell, says Bruce Jackson, is the spirit behind the sixty-five work songs gathered in this eloquent dispatch from a brutal era of prison life in the Deep South. Through engagingly documented song arrangements and profiles of their singers, Jackson shows how such pieces as &quot;Hammer Ring,&quot; &quot;Ration Blues,&quot; &quot;Yellow Gal,&quot; and &quot;Jody's Got My Wife and Gone&quot; are like no other folk music forms: they are distinctly African in heritage, diminished in power and meaning outside their prison context, and used exclusively by black convicts.<br><br>The songs helped workers through the rigors of cane cutting, logging, and cotton picking. Perhaps most important, they helped resolve the men's hopes and longings and allowed them a subtle outlet for grievances they could never voice when face-to-face with their jailers.</p>

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A thorough, socially responsible, sensitive, and scholarly presentation.--Bess Lomax Hawes "American Anthropologist "

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