Phyllis Jones posed this to the MLA List on Monday, March 30:
The New York Times notes the passing of Archie Green, folklorist, carpenter,
union activist, author, and generous mentor:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/books/29green.html
His seminal Only a Miner: Studies in Recorded Coal-mining Songs (1972) set a
standard for later discographical studies of occupational song. Most
recently, he brought to completion The Big Red Songbook, a compendium
containing 250 songs from the I.W.W.’s Little Red Songbooks originally
published 1909-1973.
