hominidmedia: people: joe hill
media introduction:
image credit:
Jim Kichas "Records for Joe Hill Online" Utah Division of Archives and Records Service. 19 November 2015.
[utah.gov].
Joe Hill. "Joe Hill's Last Will" (1915). Performed by Utah Phillips. Recorded at Festival of American Folklife (1976).
[.youtube].
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Hayes/Robinson "Joe Hill" lyrics as performed by Phillips; hosted by
[.youtube].
lyrics:
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Other versions of this song:
[Joan Baez at Woodstock, 1969 (hosted by .youtube)] and
[Bruce Springsteen in Tampa 2014 (hosted by .youtube)].
"The Ballad of Joe Hill" is also in this tradition:
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standard narrative:
Howard Zinn.
A Peoples History Of The United States. New York: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2005. (First Published: 1980). 334-35.
Zinn on Hill:
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Franklin Rosemont.
Joe Hill: The IWW and the making of a revolutionary working class counterculture. Chicago: Kerr, 2002.
primary sources:
Prof. Ron Yengich.
The Joe Hill Project. [joehill.org] Utah. web.
Yengich is a law professor at Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah. This collection has primary source newspapers from 1915. It is maintained by Yengich's Honors 3374:
Trial Rights of the Accused.
Joe Hill. "Joe Hill's Last Will" (1915). First published in the Ninth edition of the Little Red Songbook. This is the 1916 "Joe Hill Memorial Edition" featured hosted by
[joehill100.com]. Joe Hill 100 is a centenary celebration of Hill, published in 2015.
"Joe Hill's Last Will":
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