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John Henry est un héros folklorique américain mythique. De nombreuses pièces de théâtre et de romans l’ont pris pour sujet, ainsi que des chansons, par exemple l'album John Henry de They Might Be Giants sorti en 1994, et plus récemment, l'album The Ballad of John Henry du bluesman électrique Joe Bonamassa, sorti en 2009.
John Henry is an American folk hero. An African American freedman, he is said to have worked as a "steel-driving man"—a man tasked with hammering a steel drill into a rock to make holes for explosives to blast the rock in constructing a railroad tunnel.
13 mai 2024 · John Henry, hero of a widely sung African American folk ballad. It describes his contest with a steam drill, in which John Henry crushed more rock than did the machine but died “with his hammer in his hand.”.
28 sept. 2013 · This ballad tells the story of John Henry, an American folk hero. According to legend, he was the strongest and fastest railroad workers in his day during the post-Civil War era.
Folklorists have long thought John Henry to be mythical, but historian Scott Nelson has discovered that he was a real person—a nineteen-year-old from New Jersey who was convicted of theft in a Virginia court in 1866, sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary, and put to work building the C&O Railroad.
John Henry And The Statesmen est un film réalisé par Jake Kasdan avec Dwayne Johnson. Synopsis : Basé sur le personnage légendaire afro-américain John Henry, issu du folklore...
John Henryism (or simply JH) is the act of responding to prolonged stresses’ at work, in daily life, or from social discrimination’ by expending higher and higher levels of effort to resolve an issue or improve one’s lot, until the stresses result in physical or psychological illness.
