Voice Of Southern Labor: Radio, Music, And Textile Strikes, 1929-1934
By (Author) Vincent J. Roscigno
Contributions by William F. Danaher
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
14th July 2004
United States
General
Non Fiction
973.916
Paperback
208
The authors show how the message of the southern mill hands spread throughout the region with the advent of radio and the rise of ex-mill worker musicians, and how their sense of opportunity was further bolstered by Franklin D. Roosevelt's radio speeches and policies.
Vincent J. Roscigno is associate professor of sociology at Ohio State University. William F. Danaher is associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the College of Charleston.