Union & Protest Songs: Presenter-Dr. Edwin Everhart

JOIN THE Battle of Homestead Foundation for an online program by Dr. Edwin “Ted” Everhart, director of the Pittsburgh Labor Choir, examining the history of union and protest songs over the last 150 years … and the tactical/political applications of singing for marches, vigils, meetings, picket lines and social action gatherings.

The program will include live music along with song examples from several traditions, geographical settings and political contexts — and give attendees the tools they need to make constructive use of music as part of their own organizing work.

Dr. Edwin “Ted” Everhart is director of the Pittsburgh Labor Choir and a cultural and linguistic anthropologist who studies language ideologies, linguistic discrimination, localness and nationalism. Formerly a lecturer in Anthropology at UCLA, his scholarship has received numerous grants from the Terasaki Center, Social Science Research Council, Lewis P. Curtis Fellowship and the Karpf Peace Prize.