Contents

Preface

Introduction
Hidden in Plain Sight
Lawrence Gellert and “Negro Songs of Protest”

Chapter One
The Roads to Perdition
Lawrence Gellert’s Early Biography and Emergence

Chapter Two
Free Radical
Lawrence Gellert’s Early Collecting and Rise to Prominence

Chapter Three
“Songs about the White Man”
Black Protest and White Denial

Chapter Four
“The Great Red Heart of the American Revolution”
Lawrence Gellert, the Lomaxes, and the Leftwing Folksong Revival

Chapter Five
Big White Fog
Controversy and Containment in the Postwar

Chapter Six
Scholarly Rigors
Propaganda or Protest in the Gellert Archive?

Epilogue
Freedom Songs, Sixties Revivalism, and the Tragedy of White Denial

Notes

Index

Two Hoboes. (10-17800 Side 2, Item 1).