Gone to the Country Daniel R. Levitt Professor Vern Bullough

Professor Vern Bullough

From the emergence of Luzon's eighteenth-century tobacco industry and the Hawaii Sugar Planters' Association's documentation of workers to the movement of people and ideas across the Suez Canal and the stories of Filipino farmworkers in the American West

For a nation that often optimistically claims to be post-racial

often with laughter

causing widespread suffering

Gone to the Country Daniel R. Levitt Professor Vern BulloughGone to the Country chronicles the life and music of the New Lost City Ramblers, a trio of city bred musicians who helped pioneer the resurgence of southern roots music during the folk revival of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Formed in 1958 by Mike Seeger, John Cohen, and Tom Paley, the Ramblers introduced the regional styles of southern ballads, blues, string bands, and bluegrass to northerners yearning for a sound and an experience not found in