David Robertson

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Hard as the Rock Itself

Place and Identity in the American Mining Town

University Press of Colorado

The first intensive analysis of sense of place in American mining towns, Hard as the Rock Itself: Place and Identity in the American Mining Town provides rare insight into the struggles and rewards of life in these communities. David Robertson contends that these communities - often characterized in scholarly and literary works as derelict, as sources of debasing moral influence, and as scenes of environmental decay - have a strong and enduring sense of place and have even embraced some of the signs of so-called dereliction.

  • Copyright year: 2006
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W. C. Handy

The Life and Times of the Man Who Made the Blues

University of Alabama Press

David Robertson charts W. C. Handy’s rise from a rural-Alabama childhood in the last decades of the nineteenth century to his emergence as one of the most celebrated songwriters of the twentieth century.
 

  • Copyright year: 2011
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