Singing Lecture about Folk Music and Protest Movements

SOAN event

Thursday, March 25, 2010 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM EDT
SUB I, Room B and C

Professor Dolgan's singing lecture labor history from a multicultural perspective and examines the function of folk songs in workers' lives, labor, and organizing recounting specific events, as well as the ideological tensions and historical continuities that comprise labor's legacy. The lecture includes songs from a variety of workplaces (factories, fields, mines and mills), cultural heritages (religious spirituals, African American, Latino and women workers), and union movements (IWW, United Mine Workers, Sharecroppers Union). But most of all, The Commonwealth of Toil brings to life the ways in which folk songs helped workers give voice to their hopes, their fears, their struggles, and their dreams of a better world to come."

Corey Dolgan is Professor of Sociology and Director of Community-based Learning at Stonehill College. He is author of award-winning The End of the Hamptons: Scenes from the Class Struggle in America's Paradise and forthcoming books: Pioneers of Public Sociology: The First Thirty Years of Humanity and Society and Living Sociology, a social problems text
based on case studies of students' service learning and social action. Her is former president of Association of Humanist Sociology and former editor Humanity and Society Professor Dolgan has been a community organizer and folksinger for 20 years, working with labor unions, student organizations, homeless activists, and environmental, political and social groups. 

Co-sponsored by Mason's Democracy Project and Sociology and Anthropology Department

Event open to public