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design Ronald Clyne
producer Moses Asch
Record Company Folkways Records & Service Corp.
Originally intended as a teaching aid for senior high school social studies and covering a broad scope of civic, government, economic, citizenship and immigration issues, this compilation provides a provocative mid-century impression of America culled from witnesses to the first half of the twentieth century. We are treated to songs from Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger and Malvina Reynolds; speeches from Theodore Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Williams Jennings Bryan; so-called brag talk by cowboys; and pronouncement of an oath of loyalty by Chief John Oberly of the Osage Tribe of Indians affirming that he will not conspire with any political parties to overthrow the US government.

Subjects: American Indian; Cowboys--Songs and music; Folk songs--Kentucky; Folk songs--United States; Folksong revival; Labor unions; Labor unions--Songs and music.; Music--Appalachian Region, Southern.; Protest songs; Sound effects; Speeches, addresses, etc.; Spoken word; Topical songs; United States History

Comes with liner notes (24 page booklet)