{"product_id":"wake-up-dead-man-bruce-jackson-9780820321585","title":"Wake Up Dead Man: Hard Labor and Southern Blues","description":"\u003cp\u003eMaking it in Hell, says Bruce Jackson, is the spirit behind the 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 as \"Hammer Ring,\" \"Ration Blues,\" \"Yellow Gal,\" and \"Jody's Got My Wife and Gone\" are like no other folk music forms: they are distinctly African in heritage, diminished in power and meaning outside their prison context, and used exclusively by black convicts. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe songs helped workers through the rigors of cane cutting, logging, and cotton picking. Perhaps most important, they helped resolve the men's hopes and longings and allowed them a subtle outlet for grievances they could never voice when face-to-face with their jailers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bruce Jackson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0820321583\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820321585\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/15\/1999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.38lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.99h x 6.00w x 0.92d","brand":"Bruce Jackson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47611008614655,"sku":"9780820321585","price":36.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_13290e1d-867a-419a-a34f-4846802162c9.jpg?v=1764511120","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/wake-up-dead-man-bruce-jackson-9780820321585","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}