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Berlin, Irving 1888-1989 Dylan, Bob 1941- Folk music Political aspects United States History 20th century Folk songs, English United States Guthrie, Woody 1912-1967 Italian Hall Disaster, Calumet, Mich., 1913 Patriotic music United States History and criticism Popular music 1961-1970 Popular music Political aspects United States History 20th century Popular music United States History and criticismWolff, 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 WOLShaw, 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 SHAVarious Artists
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