Joe Hill, Bread, Roses and songs

La création d'une contre-culture ouvrière et révolutionnaire aux Etats-Unis

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Joe Hill, Bread, Roses and songs

La création d'une contre-culture ouvrière et révolutionnaire aux Etats-Unis

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Immigré aux États-Unis, Joe Hill consacre sa vie à la lutte révolutionnaire pour le syndicat Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). Hobo, il va de grève en grève utilisant pour arme son talent de songwriter. Ses chansons deviennent des hymnes dans la classe prolétaire et incarnent très vite l'ensemble des IWW. En 1915, il est condamné à mort en Utah, suite à un coup monté pour lequel il est accusé de meurtre et d'un procès à charge où aucune preuve n'est établie. Joe Hill devient alors un symbole de l'oppression capitaliste et étatique. De nombreux artistes vont chanter son destin parmi lesquels, pour les plus connus par le ''tout public'' : Joan Baez, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Morello (Rage against the machine)… Franklin Rosemont écrit ici la biographie référence de Joe Hill. Mais bien plus que l'histoire du songwriter, il balaye l'ensemble des pans de la culture populaire étatsunienne : racisme, féminisme, question indienne, religion, justice, écologie… Nous faisant rencontrer nombre d'écrivains, de poètes et de dessinateurs, Rosemont remonte jusqu'aux années 70, tirant les fils de l'histoire de l'art populaire et prolétaire à travers le 20e siècle.

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Joe Hill: The IWW and the Making of a Revolutionary Workingclass Counterculture
2015, Between the Lines
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Joe Hill: the IWW & the making of a revolutionary workingclass counterculture
2015
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Joe Hill: The IWW & The Making Of A Revolutionary Working Class Counterculture
January 1, 2003, Charles H Kerr
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Joe Hill: The IWW & the Making of a Revolutionary Workingclass Counterculture
January 1, 2003, Charles H Kerr
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Joe Hill: the IWW & the making of a revolutionary workingclass counterculture
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A monumental work, expansive in scope, covering the life, times, and culture of that most famous of the Wobblies--songwriter, poet, hobo, thinker, humorist, martyr--Joe Hill. It is a journey into the Wobbly culture that made Hill and the capitalist culture that killed him. Many aspects of the life and lore of Joe Hill receive their first and only discussion in IWW historian Franklin Rosemont's opus. In great detail, the issues that Joe Hill raised and grappled with in his life: capitalism, white supremacy, gender, religion, wilderness, law, prison, and industrial unionism are shown in both the context of Hill's life and for their enduring relevance in the century since his death. Collected too is Joe Hill's art, plus scores of other images featuring Hill-inspired art by IWW illustrators from Ralph Chaplin to Carlos Cortez, as well as contributions from many other labor artists. As Rosemont suggests in this remarkable book, Joe Hill never really died. He lives in the minds of young (and old) rebels as long as his songs are sung, his ideas are circulated, and his political descendants keep fighting for a better day. -- taken from back cover.

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Although Joe Hill was a member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) only for the last five or six years of his life, those years happen to bepreciselythe years in which a young and undistinguished Swedish immigrant hobo became the man we know as Joe Hill.
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