Hard Hitting Songs for Hard-Hit People Fiction and Poetry "The simplicity of Turner's telling

"The simplicity of Turner's telling does not take away from the power of the underlying issues of slavery

or do they stay hidden forever

" a landmark anthology originally published in 1992

political organizer and educator

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Hard Hitting Songs for Hard-Hit People Fiction and Poetry "The simplicity of Turner's tellingby Alan Lomax, Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger University of Nebraska Press 2012, paperback SKU: 9780803244757 Twenty seven years in the making (1940 67), this tapestry of nearly two hundred American popular and protest songs was created by three giants of performance and musical research: Alan Lomax, indefatigable collector and preserver; Woody Guthrie, performer and prolific balladeer; and Pete Seeger, entertainer and educator who introduced three