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Prophet Singer
Prophet Singer: The Voice and Vision of Woody Guthrieexamines the cultural and political significance of lyrics by beloved songwriter and activist Woodrow Wilson \"Woody\" Guthrie. The text traces how Guthrie documented the history of America's poor and disadvantaged through lyrics about topics as diverse as the Dust Bowl and the poll tax. Divided into chapters covering specific historical topics such as race relations and lynchings, famous outlaws, the Great Depression, and unions, the book takes an in-depth look at how Guthrie manipulated his lyrics to explore pressing issues and to bring greater political and economic awareness to the common people.
Incorporating the best of both historical and literary perspectives, Mark Allan Jackson references primary sources including interviews, recordings, drawings, and writings. He includes a variety of materials from the Smithsonian Institution, the Library of Congress, and the Woody Guthrie Archives. Many of these have never before been widely available. The result provides new insights into one of America's most intriguing icons.Prophet Singeroffers an analysis of the creative impulse behind and ideals expressed in Guthrie's song lyrics.
Details from the artist's personal life as well as his interactions with political and artistic movements from the first half of the twentieth century afford readers the opportunity to understand how Guthrie's deepest beliefs influenced and found voice in the lyrics that are now known and loved by millions.
Mark Allan Jackson is currently an assistant professor of English at DePauw University. His articles and reviews have been featured inPopular MusicandSociety and American Music.
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Dorothea Lange's lens on humanity
The Great Depression of 1930s America and the Dust Bowl that devastated farming in the high plains of Oklahoma, Kentucky, and Texas are summoned up in John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath and Woody Guthrie's gravelly voice singing Dust Bowl Blues. Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California, 1936 © The Dorothea Lange Collection, the Oakland Museum of California During the Depression Lange took photographs for the Farm Security Administration, one of the agencies established under Franklin D Roosevelt's New Deal. Dorothea Lange: Politics of Seeing Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK, until Sept 2, 2018 http://blog.barbican.org.uk/2018/06/about-dorothea-lange-politics-of-seeing/ Paul S Taylor, Dorothea Lange in Texas on the Plains, ca. 1935 © The Dorothea Lange Collection, the Oakland Museum of California
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When Bob met Woody : the story of the young Bob Dylan
This picture book biography follows a young Bob Zimmerman as he renames himself after his favorite poet, Dylan Thomas, and leaves his mining town to pursue his love of music in New York City. There, he meets his folk music hero Woody Guthrie, changing his life forever.
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Neurology through the humanities
The University of Oklahoma College of Medicine at Oklahoma City (OK, USA) offers a mandatory Enrichment Program, Humanities and Medicine, to second-year medical students. The discourse for the second session centered around Stolen Memories, with a focus on the effects of Alzheimer's disease, as illustrated in the work of the philosopher and author Iris Murdoch. [...]the cognitive decline of the country music singer Glen Campbell was illustrated by contrasting his song Rhinestone Cowboy that he used to perform in his prime with I'm Not Going to Miss You—Campbell's swan song after he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.
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How Woody Guthrie can help us fight for science
However, Oklahoma is also the home of protest singer Woody Guthrie, a visible example of resistance in the 1930s class and culture wars between rural and urban values. If Woody could use his voice to speak up, so can scientists.
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Country roads : the heartbeat of America
In her documentary \"Country Roads\", Marieke Schroeder embarks on a search for the authentic America - a country at a turning-point. It is a search for the substantial: the morale, the pioneering spirit that holds the nation and its population together in crisis. We meet the young generation of American singer-songwriters who consider themselves as successors of Country-rebels such as Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson and Steve Earle. They despair of themselves and their homeland and at the same time are full of hope, full of faith. Country Music opens up our view of the soul of the American nation and lets us rediscover the land and the music.
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