EH.T: Songs of Rags and Riches

[Hugh Rockoff]

Teachers of economic history may be interested in a new compilation of 
folksongs available from Smithsonian Folkways and the Museum of American 
Finance: "If You ain't Got the Do-RE-MI: Songs of Rags and Riches."

Many of the songs are rooted in topics we teach in American economic 
history: Woodie Guthrie's, "Union Maid" (organizing unions in the 1930s) 
and "If You ain't Got the DO-RE-MI (the migration to California in the 
1930s); Pete Seeger's, "Down on Penny's Farm (sharecropping); Joe 
Glazer's, "Ida Mae" (Social Security); and June Lazarre's, "Jim Fisk" 
(Jim Fisk!). There are 28 songs in all.

The disk was compiled by Jeff Place, Jack Manischewitz, and John Herzog.

The disk and a transcription of many of the lyrics are available at 
http://www.folkways.si.edu/search/AlbumDetails.aspx?ID=3165.

-- 
Hugh Rockoff
Department of Economics
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