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Spirit of steel : music of the mines, railroads, and mills of the Birmingham district : an educational resource  Cover Image Book Book

Spirit of steel : music of the mines, railroads, and mills of the Birmingham district : an educational resource

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  • ISBN: 1575871084
  • Physical Description: xiv, 82 p. : ports. ; 23 cm. + 1 sound disc (4 3/4 in.)
  • Publisher: Birmingham, Ala. : Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark : c1999.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"... made possible by grants from the Folklife Program of the Alabama State Council on the Arts, the Alabama Humanities Foundation, the Birmingham Regional Arts Commission, and the Randall G. Lawrence Memorial Fund"
"Additional notes on the music with lyrics": p. [39]-77.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Bibliography: p. [79]-80.
Formatted Contents Note:
Gandy dancing / Maggie Holtzberg -- Notes on the early recorded blues of Birmingham / Gayle Dean Wardlow -- Birmingham quartets celebrate the union movement / Ray Funk -- Fiddle tunes for mining towns ; The ballad of John Catchings / Joyce Cauthen.
Subject: Miners > Songs and music > History and criticism.
Mills and mill-work > Songs and music > History and criticism.
Railroads > Songs and music > History and criticism.
Folk music > Alabama > Birmingham > History and criticism.

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  • 2 of 2 copies available at State Library of Alabama.

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APLS 781.62 SPI 31291002437729 ALACIRC Available -

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