We shall overcome : essays on a great American song /

"We Shall Overcome" is an American folk song that has influenced American and world history like few others. At different points in time it has served as a labor movement song, a civil rights song, a hymn, and a protest song and has long held strong individual and collective meaning for th...

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Other Authors: Bobetsky, Victor V. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, 2015.
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Table of Contents:
  • The complex ancestry of We shall overcome / Victor V. Bobetsky
  • A folksong in flight : Pete Seeger and the genesis of We shall overcome / Sam A. Rosenthal
  • The SNCC freedom singers : ambassadors for justice / Deanna F. Weber
  • The missing blue note : transmutation and appropriation from the gospel lineage of We shall overcome / Andrew Aprile
  • Analysis and history of major choral arrangements of We shall overcome / Christopher Flannery-McCoy
  • We shall overcome : a symposium / Victor V. Bobetsky
  • No more auction block for me and We shall overcome : freedom songs for the middle school music classroom / Brooke Berry-Wolfá
  • Beyond We shall overcome : the lasting legacy of freedom songs / Patricia Woodard.