Searching for Woody Guthrie (eBook)

A Personal Exploration of the Folk Singer, His Music, and His Politics

Ron Briley (Autor)

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2024 | 1
304 Seiten
University of Tennessee Press (Verlag)
978-1-62190-534-9 (ISBN)

Infos

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, analyzes his political ideas through primary and secondary source materials. While numerous biographies on Woody Guthrie existincluding Guthrie's own 1943 autobiographythis book takes a different approach. Less biographical and more thematic in nature, Searching for Woody Guthrie centers 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.1.2024
• Reihe/Serie: Charles K. Wolfe Music Series
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Singen / Musizieren
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: 20th-century working-class hero • American folk music history • American labor movement songs • American music and class struggle • Bound for Glory significance • Depression-era protest music • Dust Bowl balladeer themes • folk music and protest history • folk singers and radical politics • Guthrie’s autobiographical influences • Guthrie’s geographic influence • Guthrie's influence on American protest songs • Guthrie’s music and political activism • Guthrie’s role in civil rights • Guthrie’s working-class faith • People’s Daily World Woody Sez columns • Ron Briley analysis Guthrie’s music • rural working-class narratives • Searching for Woody Guthrie by Ron Briley • This Land Is Your Land cultural impact • Woody Guthrie and 1930s protest movements • Woody Guthrie and American radicalism • Woody Guthrie Archives research • Woody Guthrie biography • Woody Guthrie centennial studies • Woody Guthrie primary sources • Woody Guthrie’s cultural chronology • Woody Guthrie's political ideology • Woody Guthrie’s social justice legacy • Woody Guthrie’s timeless relevance
• ISBN-10: 1-62190-534-9 / 1621905349
• ISBN-13: 978-1-62190-534-9 / 9781621905349