Little Red Songbooks: Songs for the Labor Force of America

2001 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terese M. Volk
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Music Education ◽  
Labor Unions ◽  
Labor Movement ◽  
The United States ◽  
Nontraditional Education ◽  
Music Training ◽  
Educational Establishment

Since the early part of the twentieth century, there have been selected colleges in the United States dedicated to the training of future leaders for labor unions. Four of the most prominent are Work Peoples' College, Duluth, Minnesota; Brookwood College, Katonah, New York; Commonwealth College, Mena, Arkansas; and Highlander College, Monteagle, Tennessee. Education at these colleges, including music education, ran counter to the educational establishment of their time. Issues of labor versus management, traditional versus nontraditional education, and structured (formal) curricula versus practical (informal) curricula are all in evidence. All four institutions had songbooks. An examination of archival copies of these songbooks, within the context of the curricula of the schools and the labor movement in the United States, shows that nearly all the songs were parodies set to the folk and popular tunes of the day. These songs provided a means through which to teach union solidarity and labor concepts. Music education at these colleges was generally done on an informal basis. Students developed their skills as lyricists, song leaders, and performers through sing-alongs and the use of music in drama. Nontraditional though this was, the practical music training the students experienced in these labor colleges produced powerful results in their unions.

scholarly journals Anton Füster - a Slovene forty-eighter

1998 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 81-93
Author(s):  
Janez Stanonik
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
The United States ◽  
Catholic Priest ◽  
Revolution Of 1848 ◽  
The Revolution

Anton Füster, originally by profession a Catholic priest and a leading figure in the Vienna Revolution of 1848/49, lived the early part of his life- from 1808 till 1847 - in his native Slovenia. A few months before the outbreak of the revolution he was nominated Professor at Vienna University. After the suppression of the revolution in spring 1849 he emigrated by way of Germany and London to the United States. After the first three years in Boston he lived in New York until his return to Austria in 1876. He died in Vienna in 1881.

US Labor Studies in the Twenty-First Century: Understanding Laborism Without Labor

2019 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 449-465 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jake Rosenfeld
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Labor Unions ◽  
Labor Movement ◽  
The United States ◽  
Standard Measure ◽  
First Century ◽  
Labor Studies ◽  
Political Dynamics ◽  
Contemporary United States

In recent years, labor studies has flourished even as labor unions in the United States have continued their long-term downward trajectory. One strain of this research has situated the labor movement, and its decline, at the center of economic inequality's rise in the United States. Another has explored the labor movement's interconnections with political dynamics in the contemporary United States, including how labor's demise has reshaped the polity and policies. This body of scholarship also offers insights into recent stirrings of labor resurgence, ranging from the teachers’ strikes of 2017 to the Fight for 15 minimum wage initiatives. Yet the field's reliance on official union membership rates as the standard measure of union strength, and on official strike statistics as the standard measure of union activism, prevents it from fully understanding the scope and durability of worker activism in the post-Wagner age.

Community Music and Social Justice: Reclaiming Love

2012 ◽  
pp. 154-167
Author(s):  
Marissa Silverman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Music Education ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
Final Section ◽  
The United States ◽  
Community Music

This article integrates philosophical reflections on community music (CM) with analyses of two neglected concepts and practices in music education and CM: love-as-action and social justice. It explains the ways CM may adopt, adapt, and benefit from the practices of community facilitators working in various circumstances. It discuss some prerequisites for, and dimensions of, these concepts in the context of Western societies generally and the United States particularly. The final section connects the concept of love-as-social-justice to a practical example in New York City's urban environment.

The Welcome Arrival

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Douglas W. Shadle
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Music Education ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
The United States ◽  
Antonin Dvorak ◽  
The Us ◽  
World Class

New York-based philanthropist and entrepreneur Jeannette Thurber (1850–1946) founded the National Conservatory of Music in 1885 to provide a world-class but low-cost professional music education to students from across the United States. Though it progressed in fits and starts, the conservatory eventually earned a congressional charter in 1891, giving it a unique stature compared to national rivals. A year later, Thurber hired Antonín Dvořák, the famous Bohemian composer, to be its executive musical director—easily the highest-profile individual to hold the position. The US public expected Dvořák to transform the National Conservatory into the international powerhouse Thurber had always envisioned.

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