1. Joseph Glazer was an American folk musician who recorded more than thirty albums over the course of his career.
17 Facts About Joe Glazer
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Joe Glazer was closely associated with labor unions and often referred to as "labor's troubadour".
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Joe Glazer was born in Manhattan, New York City, in 1918, and grew up in the Bronx.
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Joe Glazer was a graduate of Brooklyn College and was a civilian radio instructor for the United States Army Air Forces during World War II.
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Joe Glazer eventually moved to Akron, Ohio, where he performed for the United Rubber Workers throughout his career and served as education director from 1950 to 1962.
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Joe Glazer was a member of the Textile Workers Union of America as well as an adviser to the United States Information Agency.
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Joe Glazer transferred to the State Department in Washington as a labor adviser in 1965.
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In 1954 Glazer released two albums of music from the Industrial Workers of the World, including one entirely of songs by Wobbly songwriter Joe Hill, released by Folkways Records.
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In 1960 Joe Glazer collaborated with Edith Fowke to publish Songs of Work and Freedom, which included 10 of his original compositions.
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Joe Glazer went on to dedicate numerous albums to specific trades, including coal mining, newspaper printing, steelwork, textile mills, and woodworking.
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In 1970 Joe Glazer founded Collector Records, originally to issue his own recordings, and, later, recordings by other performers.
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In 1979, Joe Glazer invited 14 other labor musicians to the George Meany Center for Labor Studies in Silver Spring, Maryland, to share musical and written compositions, and to discuss the effective use of music, song, poetry and chants in labor activism.
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In 1984, Joe Glazer incorporated the Labor Heritage Foundation as a parent body for GLAE as well as to curate and promote the culture of the American labor movement.
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In 2002, Joe Glazer released his autobiography, Labor's Troubadour, published by the University of Illinois Press.
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Joe Glazer was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the World Folk Music Association in 2002.
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Joe Glazer married Mildred Krauss in 1942, and they had three children.
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Joe Glazer died from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma at his home in Chevy Chase, Maryland, on September 19,2006, at the age of 88.