Talking Union and Other Union Songs

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"Talking Union and Other Union Songs" is a landmark 1941 folk album by the Almanac Singers that popularized pro-labor, union-organizing songs in the American labor movement.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf music album
pro-labor album
artist Almanac Singers
associatedWith American trade unions
Congress of Industrial Organizations
circulation labor meetings
union halls
countryOfOrigin United States
genre folk
political folk
protest music
hasContributor Lee Hays
Millard Lampell
Pete Seeger
hasForm acoustic guitar accompaniment
group vocals
hasTrack All I Want
Get Thee Behind Me, Satan
I Don’t Want Your Millions, Mister
Solidarity Forever
Talking Union
Union Maid
We Shall Not Be Moved
Which Side Are You On?
historicalContext New Deal labor politics
World War II era
influenced American labor movement
U.S. folk revival
intendedAudience industrial workers
labor organizers
label Keynote Records
language English
lyricist Lee Hays
Millard Lampell
Pete Seeger
mainTheme labor movement
trade unions
union organizing
workers' rights
mediaType 78 rpm record
notableFor popularizing union songs in the American labor movement
pro-labor political content
performer Almanac Singers
politicalAlignment left-wing
pro-labor
producer Keynote Records
recordingPeriod early 1940s
releaseYear 1941

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Almanac Singers notableWork Talking Union and Other Union Songs