| Lonesome Traveler: The Life of Lee Hays Contributor(s): Willens, Doris (Author), Seeger, Pete (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0803297475 ISBN-13: 9780803297470 Publisher: Bison Books
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: September 1993 Annotation: During the Great Depression, Lee Hays--an Arkansas Traveler, radical minstrel, Southern Methodist minister's son, and founder of the Weavers--used his music to lift the hearts of sharecroppers, miners, and union organizers and to discombobulate social laxity through songs of social justice. 39 photos. Lyrics. |
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Music |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 93013490 |
| Physical Information: 0.68" H x 5.89" W x 8.95" L (0.97 lbs) 299 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Geographic Orientation - Arkansas |
| Features: Price on Product |
| Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 08/09/1993 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: During the Great Depression, Lee Hays, the son of a Southern Methodist minister, used his music to life the hearts of sharecroppers and miners and union organizers. He helped bring black music to America's consciousness. He could make people laugh in times when there seemed little to laugh about. An Arkansas traveler and radical minstrel, he commented wryly on events and impaled reactionary southern congressmen on their own words. A kind of Mark Twain of the left, people said. But Lee Hays, for all his great size and talents and humor, was also a difficult man, plagued by self-doubts and a driving need to discombobulate any person or group that struck him as self-satisfied. Lonesome Traveler is the story of a prodigious talent with a zeal for changing the world. With Pete Seeger he formed the popular folksinging group the Weavers, which sang songs of social justice just as a tidal wave of red-hunting hit America. The rest of his legendary story will anger, touch, and delight. Doris Willens, a former newspaper columnist, lyricist, and playwright, divides her time between New York City and Northport, Long Island. |
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