The Life, Music and Thought of Woody Guthrie: A Critical Appraisal
- Author: Partington, John S.
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Contents
- Contents: Preface, John S. Partington
- Foreword, Jorge Arevalo Mateus
- Part I 'All You Can Write Is What You See': Woody Guthrie's Songs as Diagnosis and Cure: 'Pastures of plenty'
- Woody Guthrie and the New Deal, Richard Nate
- 'There's a better world a-coming': resolving the tension between the urban and rural visions in the writings of Woody Guthrie, John S. Partington
- Woody Guthrie and the cultural front, Will Kaufman
- Playing legend maker: Woody Guthrie's 'Jackhammer John', Mark Allan Jackson
- 'Words to shoot back at you': Woody Guthrie's 'war' against German Fascism, Martin Butler. Part II Creating an Icon: The (Self-)Imaging of Woody Guthrie: 'Always on the go': the figure of the hobo in the songs and writings of Woody Guthrie, Martin Butler
- 'Hard travelin': constructing Woody Guthrie's dust bowl legacy, Jeff Morgan
- Woody Guthrie, aka 'the guy who wrote This Land is Your Land', Frank Erik Pointner. Part III Partnering and Siring: Woody Guthrie in Comparative Perspective: Will Geer and Woody Guthrie: a folk music friendship, Ronald D. Cohen
- The performer and the promoter, Ed Cray
- Good man, honest man: Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan and the role of the folk outlaw, D.A. Carpenter
- Bibliography
- Index.