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Wake Up Dead Man: Hard Labor and Southern Blues New edition
Wake Up Dead Man: Hard Labor and Southern Blues
Sixty-five work songs gathered in this eloquent dispatch from a brutal era of prison life in the Deep South. Through engagingly documented song arrangements and profiles of their singers, Jackson shows how such pieces are like no other folk music forms.
352 pages, 24 b&w photographs, 65 songs
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | December 15, 1999 |
| ISBN13 | 9780820321585 |
| Publishers | University of Georgia Press |
| Pages | 352 |
| Dimensions | 229 × 371 × 31 mm · 625 g |
| Language | English |
| Editor | Jackson, Bruce |