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Pistol Packin' Mama Aunt Molly Jackson and the Politics of Folksong

by Shelly Romalis

  • ISBN: 9780252024214
  • ISBN10: 0252024214

Pistol Packin' Mama Aunt Molly Jackson and the Politics of Folksong

by Shelly Romalis

  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr
  • Publish date: 11/01/1998
  • ISBN: 9780252024214
  • ISBN10: 0252024214
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Description: Meet Aunt Molly Jackson (1880-1960), one of American folklore's most fascinating characters.

A coal miner's daughter, she grew up in eastern Kentucky, married a miner, and became a midwife, labor activist, and songwriter. Fusing hard experience with rich Appalachian musical tradition, her songs became weapons of struggle.

In 1931, at age fifty, she was "discovered" and brought north, sponsored and befriended by an illustrious circle of left-wing intellectuals and musicians, including Theodore Dreiser, Alan Lomax, and Charles Seeger and his son Pete. Along with Sarah Ogan Gunning, Jim Garland (two of Aunt Molly's half-siblings), Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly, and other folk musicians, she served as a cultural broker, linking the rural working poor to big-city left-wing activism.

Shelly Romalis draws upon interviews and archival materials to construct this portrait of an Appalachian woman who remained radical, raucous, proud, poetic, offensive, self-involved, and in spirit the "real" pistol packin' mama of the song.

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Location: Miramar, FL
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Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 239 p. Contains: Illustrations. Music in American Life (Hardcover).
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Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 239 p. Contains: Illustrations. Music in American Life (Hardcover).
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