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29 - English Language and Literature
University of Central Lancashire
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Book title
Woody Guthrie, American Radical
Type
A - Authored book
DOI
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Publisher of book
Univesity of Illinois Press
ISBN of book
978-0-252-03602-6
Year of publication
2011
Number of additional authors
0
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Interdisciplinary
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Cross-referral requested
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Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
Yes
Double-weighted statement
The first political biography of Woody Guthrie and deemed by reviewers as an avowed piece of post-McCarthyite recovery work, Kaufman’s book is an: “Overdue rediscovery of folk music’s great agitator” (Kirkus Reviews). Moreover, "Kaufman is an excellent guide to a tradition buried under a multi-decade propaganda campaign that buried the stories of rural and radical America" (PopMatters). The Author used sources from the Woody Guthrie Archives, the Smithsonian and the Library of Congress – notebooks, letters, artwork, lyrics, draft essays – many never previously published, to establish new facts about Guthrie, including his presence at the notorious anti-Robeson riots at Peekskill, 1949.
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No
Non-English
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English abstract
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