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Contents: This train is bound for glory -- Oklahoma hills -- Rambling round your city -- I ain't got no home -- Do re mi -- Curley headed baby -- Dear Mrs. Roosevelt -- Pastures of plenty -- The Grand Coulee Dam -- Roll on Columbia -- Biggest thing man has ever done -- Jackhammer John -- Hobo's lullaby -- Woman at home -- Deportee -- Mail myself to you --Howdido -- Jesus Christ -- 1913 massacre -- Union...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. 1990

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK GUT

Summary: In 1936 Woody Guthrie leaves Texas and heads to California looking for work. He meets hobos, migrant workers and people down on their luck, and begins his career as a folk singer.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment 2002

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BOU

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Bound

Summary: This film explores Guthrie's creative genius -- his life and music as well as lesser known talents like writing and painting. Every American who has listened to the radio knows Guthrie's 'This Land Is Your Land.' The music of the folk singer/songwriter has been recorded by everyone from the Mormon Tabernacle Choir to U2.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2007

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV WOO

Wolff, Daniel J.

Summary: A tour de force of storytelling years in the making: a dual biography of two of the greatest songwriters, Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie, that is also a murder mystery and a history of labor relations and socialism, big business and greed in twentieth-century America—woven together in one epic saga that holds meaning for all working Americans today.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.5 WOL

Partridge, Elizabeth.

Summary: A biography of Woody Guthrie, a singer who wrote over 3,000 folk songs and ballads as he traveled around the United States, including "This Land is Your Land" and "So Long It's Been Good to Know Yuh."

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2002

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GUTHRIE, WOODY PAR

Shaw, John (John Allen)

Summary: Near the end of the Great Depression and the beginning of World War II, a homeless Dust Bowl refugee named Woody Guthrie originally drafted "This Land Is Your Land" as an anthem that encompassed the tough realities of those dark times--and as a rebuttal to Irving Berlin's "God Bless America." But the song that Guthrie despised had its own complexities. Irving Berlin had risen from homelessness...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.42 SHA

Summary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010

Summary: The development of the arts in Europe from the Middle Ages to the modern era is an astonishing record of cultural achievement, from the breathtaking architecture of Gothic cathedrals to the daring visual experiments of the Cubist painters. We all have our favorite artists, periods, or styles from this immensely rich tradition, but how many of us truly know the full sweep of European art? How...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2005

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 HIS

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