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Article: Hill's Protest Songs
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"I NEVER DIED. . ."
The Words, Music and Influence of Joe Hill

The music of Joe Hill was a uniting force that captured the spirit of the radical Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W.) labor movement.

Although he never electronically recorded his songs, Hill's music was passed from voice-to-voice across the American landscape with certain songs emerging as anthems for struggling bands of men and women seeking to redefine opportunity in this nation at the turn of the last century.

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