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Hard Times Come Again No More Words and music past Stephen Foster, 1855	What financial practices made this era particularly decumbent to "difficult times"? Overspeculation; banks and country governments printing currency without backing past gold and silver; child labor; no safety measures in factories and mines. How did these practices filter downward to regular folks? Unemployment; loss of savings in bank failures; loss of homes, farms when debts couldn't be repaid, etc. What groups were trying to "sup sorrow with the poor" and reform some of the "hard" conditions? Dorothea Dix; abolitionists; temperance workers, etc. What exercise is poetry three's "stake drooping maiden" referring to? Employment of children and young women in factories. What would happen to the poor and others who fell upon hard times in the early 1800s? People were imprisoned for debt, lunacy, feeblemindedness; relied on family, church. What are some of the deadly diseases of the early 1800s that could leave families singing a "dirge ... around the lowly grave"? Cholera, typhoid, typhus, yellow fever, etc. What has become of those diseases today? How are we protected against these diseases? Sanitation, sewers, clean water, clean air, industrial safety, antibiotics, vaccination, antiseptic surgery. What are the "safety nets" for difficult times today? Unemployment, health insurance, disability, welfare, effective medical treatments. How constructive are they? Who however falls through the "cracks" today? What "hard times" should we be helping others through that we aren't? Homelessness, mental illness and retardation, people without health insurance, etc. "Hard Times Come Again No More than," performed by Jay Ungar and Molly Bricklayer on Civil War Classics, Dabble & Dance Records, © 1994. Available on Spotify, iTunes and YouTube. Although originally composed equally a parlor song, "Hard Times" has been captivated into mainstream folk music and is frequently performed with folk instruments. In this recording, the solo fiddle introduction and the elementary guitar accessory bring out the sorrowful images presented by the text. Jay Ungar and Molly Mason accomplished international acclaim when their operation of Jay'southward composition, "Ashokan Goodbye," became the musical hallmark of Ken Burns' The Ceremonious War on PBS. The soundtrack won a Grammy and "Ashokan Adieu" was nominated for an Emmy. In recent years Jay and Molly accept reached an e'er widening audience through their appearances on Not bad Performances, A Prairie Home Companion, their own public radio specials, and through their work on moving picture soundtracks such as Brother's Keeper, Legends of the Autumn, and a host of Ken Burns' PBS documentaries. View the lyrics for "Hard Times Come Once again No More than." View the published score.
Stephen Collins Foster This song was originally advertised as "just the vocal for the times." When Stephen Collins Foster began writing information technology in 1854, there was widespread unemployment and a cholera outbreak in Pittsburgh, where he lived. Equanimous in the months post-obit the publication of Charles Dickens's Difficult Times, it is likely that Foster was inspired not but by the current hardships that surrounded him but besides by the novel. Even before the publication of the novel, "hard times" had become a popular phrase to describe the challenges of the menses. Foster himself used the words in "My Old Kentucky Home" in 1853 to depict a slave being sold down the river from Kentucky to the Deep S, a strong invocation of the horrors of slavery in the decade leading up to the Ceremonious State of war (however, information technology was not necessarily a condemnation of the institution of slavery; see "My Quondam Kentucky Abode"). The year 1854 also witnessed violence erupt between pro- and anti-slavery activists following the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which repealed the Missouri Compromise and immune new states to vote to become "slave" or "free." Although it may have been "simply the song for the times" when it was written, Foster's characteristically vague lyrics accept made information technology a perennial archetype. The song is not geared toward a specific economical class. Foster's invitation to "sup sorrow with the poor" is welcoming of everyone from the poor to the wealthy who sympathize with or relate to their plight. He refers to "life'south pleasures" and "its many tears," as well as the "the vocal, the sigh of the weary," without e'er specifying a crusade of weariness. Such vagueness about universal emotions—sadness, weariness—have fabricated the vocal relevant in a multifariousness of contexts. "Difficult Times Come Once more No More than" has been recorded past hundreds of artists over the years, including Johnny Cash, Arlo Guthrie, Emmylou Harris, and Rufus Wainwright. The song inspired Dolly Parton's "Hush-a-bye Difficult Times" in 1980. It has spoken to people in times of economic hardship, war, labor strikes, ceremonious rights activism, and pandemics.
Compare this song to songs from the Great Depression (Unit 7): "Blood brother, Can You Spare a Dime" "Nobody Knows You When You're Downward and Out" "7 Cent Cotton fiber and 40 Cent Meat" Hard Times by Charles Dickens.

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