Anthracite Fields

Author: Wolfe / Bang on a Can All-Stars Choir of Trinity

Brand: Zach Top

Features:

• Anthracite fields

Format: Remixes included

Release Date: 25-09-2015

Details: Haunting, poignant and relentlessly physical, Julia Wolfes Anthracite Fields is a lovingly detailed oratorio about turn-of-the-20th-century Pennsylvania coal miners, and a fitting recipient of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Music. Weaving together personal interviews that she conducted with miners and their families, along with oral histories, speeches, rhymes and local mining lore, Wolfe sought to honor the working lives of Pennsylvanias anthracite region. It’s not necessarily mainstream history, she told NPR shortly after she received word of winning the Pulitzer. The politics are very fascinatingthe issues about safety, and the consideration for the people who are working and whats involved in it. But I di