Wake Up Dead Man: Afro-American Worksongs from Texas Prisons

By Bruce Jackson

Book Overview

Making 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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674945476
• ISBN13: 9780674945470
• Release Date: January 1972
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.1" x 9.0"