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: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674945468
• ISBN13: 9780674945463
• Release Date: January 1972
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.