Red Dust and Broadsides A Joint Autobiography Paperback - 1999
by Agnes "Sis" Cunningham And Gordon Friesen And Ronald D. Cohen And Pete Seeger
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- Title Red Dust and Broadsides A Joint Autobiography
- Author Agnes "Sis" Cunningham And Gordon Friesen And Ronald D. Cohen And Pete Seeger
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st Edition (Unstated)
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 416
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, MA
- Date 1999
- Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # TOB220-39910-A-1.5
- ISBN 9781558492103 / 1558492100
- Weight 1.5 lbs (0.68 kg)
- Dimensions 9.24 x 6.14 x 1.03 in (23.47 x 15.60 x 2.62 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Radicals - United States, Folk singers - United States
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98-53049
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Born into poverty in rural Oklahoma, further shaped by the hardships of the "dustbowl" Depression years, Sis and Gordon were already committed to radical causes when they met and married in 1941. A short time later they moved to New York City, where they befriended Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie. Sis joined the folk protest group the Almanac Singers, and Gordon continued his work as a journalist.
Although blacklisted for their political views during the McCarthy era, Sis and Gordon persevered and eventually launched Broadside, which they continued to produce for almost twenty years. The magazine was instrumental in promoting the careers of many singer-songwriters, publishing the first works of such artists as Bob Dylan, Janis Ian, Phil Ochs, Buffy Sainte-Marie, and Tom Paxton, as well as the works of more established figures, including Malvina Reynolds and Pete Seeger. Indeed, Broadside helped give birth to a musical revival that energized the country and forged a vital link between the folk music of the 1930s and 1940s and the urban folk revivalists of the 1960s and 1970s.
