1. The cultural front and the Negro : the political context of emergence for Lawrence Gellert -- 2. The early years : family roots and influences, 1898-1920 -- 3. The 1920s : trying to find oneself -- 4. The early 1930s : a star and a genre are born -- 5. Lead Belly and the Lomaxes, 1934-1936 -- 6. Negro songs of protest and protest in "Negro" songs -- 7. The WPA theater, Writers' Projects, and World War II -- 8. The 1950s : downplay and disaster -- 9. The 1960s : rebuffed and rediscovered -- 10. The 1970s : odd man out -- Epilogue to a life
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