"They have their music and we have ours": The Political Woody Guthrie. Issue 3 (27th May 2019)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- "They have their music and we have ours": The Political Woody Guthrie. Issue 3 (27th May 2019)
- Main Title:
- "They have their music and we have ours": The Political Woody Guthrie
- Authors:
- Carr, Nicholas
- Abstract:
- Abstract: In the last decade, scholars of American history and culture have begun to examine the political project of Woody Guthrie, who has now taken up his long-predicted place in a national cultural canon. This essay seeks to build on that literature by offering a reading of Guthrie's texts that is informed by radical theories as to the possibility and practice of cultural politics. It explores a political effort of considerable sophistication, which, when probed with Gramscian and other theoretical tools, brings out a radical strategy embedded in a vision of American culture and manifested in Guthrie's trademark themes: from the hobo to the war effort, from contemporary working life to the history of labor. His voluminous output provides a basis for discussion among scholars interested in the cross-over between radical theory and cultural politics, even as its subsequent history raises questions as to the possibilities of radical culture itself.
- Is Part Of:
- Popular music and society. Volume 42:Issue 3(2019)
- Journal:
- Popular music and society
- Issue:
- Volume 42:Issue 3(2019)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 42, Issue 3 (2019)
- Year:
- 2019
- Volume:
- 42
- Issue:
- 3
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2019-0042-0003-0000
- Page Start:
- 309
- Page End:
- 329
- Publication Date:
- 2019-05-27
- Subjects:
- Folk music -- Woody Guthrie -- politics -- Gramsci -- history -- class
Popular music -- Periodicals
Music -- Social aspects -- Periodicals
782.42164 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rpms20/current ↗
http://www.tandfonline.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1080/03007766.2018.1445801 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0300-7766
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- Legaldeposit
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- British Library DSC - 6550.761000
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