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Searching for Woody Guthrie - A Personal Exploration of the Folk Singer, His Music, and His Politics (Paperback)
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Searching for Woody Guthrie - A Personal Exploration of the Folk Singer, His Music, and His Politics (Paperback)
Series: Charles K. Wolfe Music Series
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Born in the summer of 1912, Woody Guthrie remains one of the most
significant figures in American folk music to this day. While most
Americans know his iconic anthem "This Land Is Your Land",
surprisingly few understand Guthrie's place in the greater context
of American radicalism and protest in the 1930s and beyond. In
Searching for Woody Guthrie, Ron Briley embarks on a chronological
exploration of Guthrie's music in the vein of American radicalism
and civil rights. Briley begins this journey with an overview of
five key periods in Guthrie's life and, in the chapters that
follow, analyses his political ideas through primary and secondary
source materials. While numerous biographies on Woody Guthrie exist
- including Guthrie's own 1943 autobiography - this book takes a
different approach. Less biographical and more thematic in nature,
Searching for Woody Guthrie centres around Guthrie's faith in the
common working people of America, bringing together People's Daily
World "Woody Sez" newspaper columns, Guthrie centennial secondary
source texts, research in the Woody Guthrie Archives, and Briley's
own personal reflections to present a narrative that is at once
personal to the author and relatable to America's rural working
class. Interlacing Guthrie's music with his own geographic and
economic background, Briley presents an original and eloquent
chronology of Guthrie's life and work in what amounts to a
compelling new case for why that work, more than fifty years after
Guthrie's death, continues to leave its mark.
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