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Another newly completed song, "You Just Haven't Earned It Yet, Baby", was originally intended to be the A-side of this single. It made it to the white label test pressing stage and approximately 900 stock copies of the single were manufactured before the band decided to make "Shoplifters" the A-side instead.
Similarly, work songs have been used as a form of rebellion and resistance. [11] Specifically, African-American women work songs have a particular history and center on resistance and self-care. [12] Work songs helped to pass down information about the lived experience of enslaved people to their communities and families. [12]
The work of labour historian Archie Green, which included the production of recordings of labour and work songs, provided a wider context for understanding industrial folk song within a wider field of 'labor lore'. [10] Songs written by Seeger and Guthrie, were also important in continuing the tradition and moving it into progressive folk music ...
[2] [3] [4] The song described how a New York City secretary stands up against sexual harassment and discrimination in the work place. [4] [3] [5] Billie Jo Spears would record the Gene Crysler-penned song first. After several failed recordings at United Artists Records, Spears moved to the Capitol label in 1966. She had yet to achieve a ...
February is Black History Month. Here are iconic songs from Sam Cooke, The Impressions, Nina Simone, Bob Dylan, Lauryn Hill, Kendrick Lamar and more. 25 songs of civil rights, social justice ...
"Been Caught Stealing" is a song by American rock band Jane's Addiction, released in November 1990 by Warner Bros. as the third single from the band's second album, Ritual de lo Habitual (1990). The song is also the band's biggest hit, spending four weeks at No. 1 on the US Billboard Modern Rock chart. [3]
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"Union Maid" is a union song, with lyrics written by Woody Guthrie in response to a request for a union song from a female point of view. [1] The melody is the 1907 standard "Red Wing" by Kerry Mills, [2] which was in turn adapted from Robert Schumann's piano composition "The Happy Farmer, Returning From Work" in his 1848 Album for the Young, Opus 68.