Songs that work : music from the workplace to the workhouse.

Singer-songwriters Andy Cohen and Noah Shull deliver a talk and performance entitled, "Songs that Work: Music from the Workplace to the Workhouse." Cohen describes the world of street performers and tells stories of music and working people in the Asheville area of North Carolina. Shull talks about prison plantations and work farms in the south, the emergence of the Blues as a musical genre and the difference between Delta Blues and Piedmont Blues. The talk is interspersed with musical selections. The session is introduced by Michigan State University Professor John P. Beck. Part of the "Our Daily Work/Our Daily Lives" Brown Bag series sponsored by the MSU School of Human Resources and Labor Relations, the MSU Museum, and the MSU Libraries' as part of its Colloquia Series. Held at the MSU Museum.

Recorded by the Vincent Voice Library, Oct. 17, 2013.