Hallelujah I’m a Bum: Rejection of Capital in Hobo Music and Culture

Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Hallelujah I’m a Bum: Rejection of Capital in Hobo Music and Culture
Original language description
This contribution looks at the figure of the hobo, tramp or bum as portrayed in American folk songs. Although the hobo has often been romanticized, the reality of this lifestyle in the United States, particularly during the Great Depression, was much grimmer and more problematic. Most hobos, at that time, were looking for work and hoping to accumulate enough capital to resume “normalcy”. Others, either temporarily or permanently, embraced this alternative way of life, even chronicling their lifestyle in literature or music and serving eventually as inspiration for not only the Beatniks, but also the Hippie movement. This paper also looks at a selection of hobo songs, particularly those which celebrate this choice of lifestyle and the rejection of the mainstream establishment.
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Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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