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Cimbalom

Santoor

From Wikipedia

Santur

From Wikipedia

The Hammered Dulcimer in America

By Nancy Groce

Musical Rebellions

The Great Mandela and the Great Rebellion

By Ron Cooke

How Long Is A Piece of String?

Travels to Turkey for an intimate encounter with a priceless folk tradition

Victoria Thomas

An Infamous Labor Battle of the early 1900s Sparked This Album of Satirical Brass Band Songs!

Starvation Army: Band Music No. 1 - Songs of the IWW and the Salvation Army Announced Today on PM Press/Free Dirt Records
Starvation Army Resurrects the Street Fights of the Spokane Free Speech labor fight of the early 1900s

From Devon Leger, Hearth Music

Songs of Workers Struggles

By Ron Cooke

Music as History

Songs to keep history alive building on the oral traditions

Worker Organizing

Effects of Industrialization

Lullabies

Cowboy Songs

Sea Shanties

Prison & Chain Gang Songs

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