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Hoboes
 Websites presented in alphabetical order Riding the Rails 
 "At the height of the Great Depression, more than 250,000 teenagers were living on the road in America." Special Features contains the stories of seven teenage hobos, hobo songs from that period, and the difficulties faced by black Americans. Some of the songs include lyrics and sound files. Includes a timeline, railroad map, bibliography, and teaching resources. Transcripts and bibliography of this program from The American Experience are also available. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rails/ Topics: Communities & Groups, United States History Last updated Jan 2, 2009 Rootster: a Search for Culture
An extension of the online world music magazine RootsWorld , this is a searchable and browsable "small, edited database of web sites for words, music, images and ideas." Some of the topics are gypsy culture, accordions, Cuban music, and hoboes. Editor Cliff Furnald aims to provide "a simple tool for discovering the wonderful, interesting and diverse cultural content scattered over the net, hidden in the average search engine." http://www.rootster.com/ Topics: Communities & Groups, Internet, Internet Guides & Search Tools, Musical Genres Last updated Apr 26, 2002 Symbols.com
Over "2,500 Western signs, arranged into 54 groups according to their graphic characteristics." Symbols include some carved in mammoth teeth by Cro-Magnon men, hobo signs, scientific, medical, mythological and religious symbols, and subway graffiti. Searchable by graphic arrangement or browsable by word definition. Based on Carl G. Liungman's 1995 book, "Thought Signs: The semiotics of Symbols--Western Non-pictorial Ideograms." http://www.symbols.com/ Topics: Communities & Groups, Social Science Last updated May 25, 2004 |
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