What's The Use Of Walking If There's A Freight Train Going Your Way?: Black Hoboes & Their Songs

by Paul Garon, Gene Tomko (Editor)

Overview

Another wonderful slice of history, political, cultural, and social history. Better yet, it comes ‘illustrated’ with a CD, with 25 original recordings. Plus, of course, the work is full of the lyrics, art, and photographs of people, and their times.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780882863061
Publisher:	Kerr, Charles H. Publishing Company
Publication date:	01/28/2006
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 1.20(d)

What People are Saying About This

Robin D.G. Kelley

"Paul Garon has produced yet another masterpiece of cultural history. The stories and songs he gathers together in this remarkable book disrupt common notions of what we mean by ‘freedom’ when it comes to black folk. Hoboes represented a significant segment of the black working class, and their constant movements were both evidence of constraints and acts of freedom. And as he so eloquently demonstrates, the men and women who took to the road and their bards have much to teach us about America’s ‘bottom rail.’"

David Roediger

"The music and poetry of black workers in motion - hoboing, hitchhiking, timbering, mining, railroading, loving, leaving, fighting back and searcing for a new job, a new life and even a new world are brilliantly recorded and explained in this arresting collection."