H-Net Discussion Networks - Re: Woody Guthrie

View the H-Southern-Music Discussion Logs by month
View the Prior Message in H-Southern-Music's March 2006 logs by: [date] [author] [thread]
View the Next Message in H-Southern-Music's March 2006 logs by: [date] [author] [thread]
Visit the H-Southern-Music home page.

From: Michael Bertrand <bertrand@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU>
List Editor: Michael Bertrand <bertrand@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU>
Editor's Subject: Re: Woody Guthrie
Author's Subject: Re: Woody Guthrie
Date Written: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 04:29:57 -0000
Date Posted: Thu, 22 Mar 2006 23:29:57 -0500

I would like to pitch in and agree with Bill Malone
here, but the sentence he quotes (I give the context
below) makes less and less sense to me the more I try
to puzzle it out. Whatever does it mean to emulate a
mentality? Whatever is union avocation? Inquiring minds
want to know.

Jeff Titon

David Leventhal writes:

> Well, I hate to bring politics into the world of
> music, but I would say Woody Guthrie is not a country
> singer because he emulates a far left mentality of
> workers' rights and union avocation...and the Okie
> migrants looked to him as a sort of hero to their plight.

Humanities & Social
Sciences Online