Assembled in the early 1940s but not published ’til a quarter-century later, Hard Hitting Songs features a dream team of talent, the likes of which comes along only once in several lifetimes. This remarkable collection of American folk and protest songs is your genuine lost classic. Just a few weeks from now, right around Labor Day appropriately enough, the University of Nebraska Press, through its Bison Books imprint, will publish a new edition of Hard Hitting Songs For Hard-Hit People. Class resentments are simmering, the disenfranchised take to the streets to protest the depredations of the wealthy, while monied interests mobilize to break the back of organized labor.Įxplore more music history with Popdose and ' Ukulele Heroes.'īut enough about the 1930s. Crops wither as the Southwest suffers under record high temperatures and drought. In Washington, a divisive Democratic president’s effort to address the crisis has led to accusations of socialism. The economy has been devastated by mismanagement at home and turmoil abroad.
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