User:Brainy J/Mining in popular culture


The mining industry is a recurring theme in popular culture, occurring in film, television, music, literature, and other media.

  • William B. Thesing, ed. (August 2000). Caverns of Night: Coal Mines in Art Literature, and Film. Univ of South Carolina Press. ISBN 978-1570033520.
  • Duke, David C. (2002). Writers and Miners: Activism and Imagery in America. University Press of Kentucky.
  • Hillstrom, Kevin; Hillstrom, Laurie Collier (September 2006). The Industrial Revolution in America: Automobiles, Mining and Petroleum, Textiles. ABC-CLIO. pp. 238–263.
  • Green, Archie (1 March 1972). Only a Miner: Studies in Recorded Coal-mining Songs. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0252001819.
  • Korson, George (1943). Coal Dust on the Fiddle: Songs and Stories of the Bituminous Industry. University of Pennsylvania Press.
  • Littin-Arizona, Shelley (15 April 2013). "Futurity.org – Video games prep miners for danger". Futurity. Retrieved 12 May 2013.
  • Lufkin, Brian (23 April 2012). "Asteroid Mining in Fiction, Past and Present". TechNewsDaily. Retrieved 12 May 2013.

Examples

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Literature

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Visual arts

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Film and television

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Music

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  • "Daddy's Down in the Mine", by Timbuk3
  • "Sixteen Tons" by Merle Travis (covered by Tennessee Ernie Ford)

Phrases and idioms

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Gaming

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Possible sources of information

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  • "Archive: coal mining in Britain". BBC. (Mostly about actual mining, rather than cultural issues, but may contain some tidbits. Ask Dricherby if you need to know what's in a video/audio item that's only available in the UK.)