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SPIRIT OF STEEL WORKSHOP
PRESENTED AT
SLOSS
FURNACES NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2000
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This
one-day workshop focused on using Spirit
of Steel - a CD and book of
essays on blues, work chants, gospel quartets,
union songs, and mining camp fiddle tunes - as a
resource in teaching history and social studies,
music and language arts. The workshop
paired the essayists who contributed to the book
with musicians and performers chosen for their
work in the musical genres contained on the CD,
and was designed to provide a forum in which
teachers exchange ideas and interact with the
scholars, musicians and music. |
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The Spirit of Steel is a CD and book of
essays that records the music of the workers who
came from the cotton fields of Alabama and the
Appalachian hills to better their lives in an
industrial city. It features music that is the
tool of work, topical songs of work, songs of
labor protests and songs created and performed by
workers in the area. This music gives voice to
the process that turned farmers into industrial
workers. It reveals the pleasures of the workers
as well as their work experience.It speaks to the
disruptive forces that accompanied
industrialization and urbanization, from the
anguish of a miner's wife at her husband's loss,
to a black man's struggle for political rights,
to the longing for families left behind.
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| ". . .The
Spirit of Steel will certainly be useful in
teaching such topics as New South race relations,
the impact of industrialization, immigration, and
the role of labor unions..." - Ronda Lee,
Ramsay High School. Those
wishing to obtain Spirit of
Steel may do so by becoming
a member ($25) of the Sloss Furnaces Association,
2032nd Street North, Birmingham, Alabama 35222,
(205) 324-1911.
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THE SPIRIT OF
STEEL WORKSHOP
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2000
SLOSS
FURNACES NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK
In RealAudio Format To download the free basic RealAudio Player
click > here. (once you are at
the page you have to look hard to find the little link to
the free basic program)
Go To Each Presenter's Page by Clicking
on Links Below:
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