Woodrow Wilson Guthrie (1912-67) has had an immense impact on
popular culture throughout the world. His folk music brought
traditional song from the rural communities of the American
southwest to the urban American listener and, through the global
influence of American culture, to listeners and musicians alike
throughout Europe and the Americas. Similarly, his use of music as
a medium of social and political protest has created a new strategy
for campaigners in many countries. But Guthrie's music was only one
aspect of his multifaceted life. His labour-union activism helped
embolden the American working class, and united such distinct
groups as the rural poor, the urban proletariat, merchant seamen
and military draftees, contributing to the general call for
workers' rights during the 1930s and 1940s. As well as penning
hundreds of songs (both recorded and unrecorded), Guthrie was also
a prolific writer of non-sung prose, writing regularly for the
American communist press, producing volumes of autobiographical
writings and writing hundreds of letters to family, friends and
public figures. Furthermore, beyond music Guthrie also expressed
his creative talents through his numerous pen-and-ink sketches, a
number of paintings and occasional forays into poetry. This
collection provides a rigorous examination of Guthrie's cultural
significance and an evaluation of both his contemporary and
posthumous impact on American culture and international
folk-culture. The volume utilizes the rich resources presented by
the Woody Guthrie Foundation.
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