Our newest CD recorded live at our 2018 Symphony Space benefit concert in NYC.
Includes:
“Viva Mexico”
“Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor”
“How Can I Keep From Singing?”
“Three Five O”
“To My Old Brown Earth”
“Song Of Peace”
“Imagine”
“Life On Earth, So Amazing/Hallelujah!”
“Do You Hear The People Sing?”
“El Pueblo Unido”
“Bread and Roses”
“United Front”
“We Were There”
“Ain’t You Got A Right
“Make Them Hear You”
“Glory”
“Rock’n Solidarity”
“We Shall Overcome”
Available on CD: $20
Order by mail. Free shipping. Please mail a check payable to New York City Labor Chorus to:
Jeff Vogel
4801 42nd St.,
#4D
Sunnyside, NY 11104
Song, Struggle, & Solidarity
by Mark Abendroth
SONG, STRUGGLE AND SOLIDARITY: THE NEW YORK CITY LABOR CHORUS IN ITS TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR is the product of Mark Abendroth’s ethnography on the NYCLC during its calendar year from fall 2016 to spring 2017. Abendroth was in his sixth year as an active member of the chorus at that time.
“This exciting work of oral history … reminds us of when the U.S. labor movement was one of the “singingest” in the world. It shows compellingly what would be gained by making it that way again.”
— David Roediger, co-editor of The Big Red Songbook, Chair of the American Studies Department at University of Kansas
“Music sustains a movement. The communal singing of protest spirituals and freedom songs empowered the civil rights movement. And the continued performance of labor songs, both old and updated, is vital to the preservation of the union movement…. Thanks to Mark Abendroth for having the foresight to chronicle the journey of this essential organization, singing these equally priceless songs.”
— Robert F. Darden, Baylor University
To order the book please send a check for $30 payable to Mark Abendroth to:
Mark Abendroth
53 Point of Woods Drive
Albany, NY 12203