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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.
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.
Alongside his reputation as an author, H.G. Wells is also
remembered as a leading political commentator of the late
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Building Cosmopolis
presents the worldview of Wells as developed between his student
days at the Normal School of Science (1884-1887) and his death in
1946. During this time, Wells developed a unique political
philosophy, grounded on the one hand in the theory of 'Ethical
Evolution' as propounded by his professor, T.H. Huxley, and on the
other in late Victorian socialism. From this basis Wells developed
a worldview which rejected class struggle and nationalism and
embraced global co-operation for the maintenance of peace and the
advancement of the human species in a world society. Although
committed to the idea of a world state, Wells became more
antagonistic towards the nation state as a political unit during
the carnage of the First World War. He began moving away from the
position of an internationalist to one of a cosmopolitan in 1916,
and throughout the inter-war period he advanced the notion of
regional and, ultimately, functional world government to a greater
and greater extent. Wells first demonstrated a functionalist
society in Men Like Gods (1923) and further elaborated this system
of government in most of his works, both fictional and
non-fictional, throughout the rest of his life. Following an
examination of the development of his political thought from
inception to fruition, this study argues that Wells's political
thoughts rank him alongside David Mitrany as one of the two
founders of the functionalist school of international relations, an
acknowledgement hitherto denied to Wells by scholars of
world-government theory.
H.G. Wells was described by one of his European critics as a
'seismograph of his age'. He is one of the founding fathers of
modern science fiction, and as a novelist, essayist, educationalist
and political propagandist his influence has been felt in every
European country. This collection of essays by scholarly experts
shows the varied and dramatic nature of Wells's reception,
including translations, critical appraisals, novels and films on
Wellsian themes, and responses to his own well-publicized visits to
Russia and elsewhere. The authors chart the intense ideological
debate that his writings occasioned, particularly in the inter-war
years, and the censorship of his books in Nazi Germany and
Francoist Spain. This book offers pioneering insights into Wells's
contribution to 20th century European literature and to modern
political ideas, including the idea of European union. Reception of
H.G. Wells in Europe Review
The Reception of British Authors in Europe series includes literary
and political figures, as well as philosophers, historians and
scientists. Each volume provides new research on the ways in which
selected authors have been translated, published, distributed,
read, reviewed A pioneering scholarly collection of essays
outlining the breadth and significance of H. G. Wells's literary
and political impact throughout 20th-century Europe H.G. Wells was
described by one of his European critics as a 'seismograph of his
age'. He is one of the founding fathers of modern science fiction,
and as a novelist, essayist, educationalist and political
propagandist his influence has been felt in every European country.
This collection of essays by scholarly experts shows the varied and
dramatic nature of Wells's reception, including translations,
critical appraisals, novels and films on Wellsian themes, and
responses to his own well-publicized visits to Russia and
elsewhere. The authors chart the intense ideological debate that
his writings occasioned, particularly in the inter-war years, and
the censorship of his books in Nazi Germany and Francoist Spain.
This book offers pioneering insights into Wells's contribution to
20th century European literature and to modern political ideas,
including the idea of European union.
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