Research Catalog

Title

Archie Green : the making of a working-class hero / Sean Burns ; foreword by David Roediger ; with a final interview conducted by Nick Spitzer

Author

Burns, Sean

Publication

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2011.

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Details

Description

xxvi, 190 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

" Archie Green: The Making of a Working-Class Hero celebrates one of the most revered folklorists and labor historians of the twentieth century. Devoted to understanding the diverse cultural customs of working people, Archie Green (1917-2009) tirelessly documented these traditions and educated the public about the place of workers' culture and music in American life. Doggedly lobbying Congress for support of the American Folklife Preservation Act of 1976, Green helped establish the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, a significant collection of images, recordings, and written accounts that preserve the myriad cultural productions of Americans. Capturing the many dimensions of Green's remarkably influential life and work, Sean Burns draws on extensive interviews with Green and his many collaborators to examine the intersections of radicalism, folklore, labor history, and worker culture with Green's work. Burns closely analyzes Green's political genealogy and activist trajectory while illustrating how he worked to open up an independent political space on the American Left that was defined by an unwavering commitment to cultural pluralism"--

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books

Subject

• Green, Archie
• Folklorists > United States > Biography
• Working class > United States > Folklore
• Labor unions > United States > Folklore
• Folklore > United States
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology
• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical
• POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations
• United States > Social life and customs

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• Folklore

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Forward / David Roediger -- Introduction : worker, scholar, and organizer -- pt. 1. Of shreds and patches : earely politcal formation. Family, revolution, and emigration -- Boyle Hights in the 1920s -- Student politics and labor in the thirties -- pt. 2. Triangle of commitments : San Francisco maritime politics of the thirties. From Berkeley stacks to stakeside trucks -- "Brother slugging brother" : Sailors, longshoremen and the legacies of the '34 strike -- Harry bridges and reconstruction of communist party history -- Union service and organizing WWII veterans -- pt. 3. A decent philosophy : culture, politics, and American folk revivalism. Folk music and the American communist party -- Moments in the making of a laborlorist -- Vernacular music and cultural pluralism -- pt. 4. "Always on stolen time" : Folklore, labor history, and cultural studies. Alternative popular front imaginary -- New labor history and American cultural studies -- Laborlore : a pedagogy of the working class -- Epilogue : A conversation with Archie / Nick Spitzer.

ISBN

• 9780252078286 (pbk.)
• 0252078284 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2011035134

OCLC

• 719427898
• SCSB-11834734

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library