Hush, Child! Can't You Hear the Music?

Hush, Child Can't You Hear the Music? is a remarkable collection of black folktales and photographs from rural Georgia. During the 1930s and 1940s Rose Thompson worked as a home supervisor with the Farm Security Administration in middle Georgia. While she worked with farmers and their wives--teaching them to put up preserves, make cotton mattresses, and build chick brooders--she listened to the stories they told. Reading Hush, Child Can't You Hear the Music? is like spending an afternoon reminiscing on the front porch. The book is illustrated with photographs taken by Thompson and WPA photographer Jack Delano.

Author: Rose Thompson
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 04/01/1999
Pages: 128
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.37lbs
Size: 8.00h x 6.04w x 0.38d
ISBN13: 9780820321370
ISBN10: 0820321370
BISAC Categories:
- Photography | Photoessays & Documentaries
- Social Science | Folklore & Mythology
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | American | African American & Black Studies

About the Author
Rose Thompson (Author)
ROSE THOMPSON was a native of Greene County, Georgia.

Charles Beaumont (Editor)
CHARLES BEAUMONT was a professor of English at the University of Georgia.