Sharecropper’s Troubadour: songs and stories from the 2014 OHA Annual Meeting

Michael Honey is currently the Haley Professor of Humanities and American History at the University of Washington Tacoma. Honey’s new oral history-based work, Sharecroppers’ Troubadour: John L. Handcox, the Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union, and the African American Song Tradition (Palgrave Macmillan Oral History Series, 2013) links generations of struggle in the South through African American song and oral poetry traditions. He has written five acclaimed books on labor and civil rights history, many grounded in oral history, including Black Workers Remember: An Oral History of Segregation, Unionism, and the Freedom Struggle. He has won numerous awards for his publications, and is also the recipient of the Weyerhaueser Foundation’s Martin Luther King Award for community leadership and service. He is the author of “'Sharecroppers’ Troubadour': Can We Use Songs and Oral Poetry as Oral History?" (available to read for free for a limited time) in the Oral History Review.

Pat Krueger chairs the music education program at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, WA, and teaches courses in music education. She maintains an active commitment to urban and multicultural arts education, and her research focuses on socialization of beginning music teachers in public schooling. Dr. Krueger previously taught K-12 music in Wisconsin public schools. She earned her BME from the University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire, and her MM and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Her publications include chapters in The Oxford Handbook of Qualitative Research in Music Education (Oxford, 2014), Great Beginnings for Music Teachers: Mentoring and Supporting New Teachers, and articles in Journal of Research in Music Education, Music Educator’s Journal, Update, Journal of Music Teacher Education, and Arts Education Policy Review.