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Informationen zum Autor Alan Lomax (1915-2002) was a folklorist, oral historian, and ethnomusicologist who collected thousands of examples of twentieth-century folk music and recorded songs all over the world. Woody Guthrie (1912-67) was a musician, singer-songwriter, and political activist who created a staggering number of original songs, writings, drawings, paintings, poems, and prose pieces. He is the author of Bound for Glory and Seeds of Man. Pete Seeger is a Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter and an icon of mid-twentieth-century folk music. A social activist, he has campaigned for civil and labor rights, racial equality, antimilitarism, and environmental protection throughout his life. Klappentext Alan Lomax (1915?02) was a folklorist, oral historian, and ethnomusicologist who collected thousands of examples of twentieth-century folk music and recorded songs all over the world. Woody Guthrie (1912?) was a musician, singer-songwriter, and political activist who created a staggering number of original songs, writings, drawings, paintings, poems, and prose pieces. He is the author of Bound for Glory and Seeds of Man. Pete Seeger is a Grammy Award?inning singer-songwriter and an icon of mid-twentieth-century folk music. A social activist, he has campaigned for civil and labor rights, racial equality, antimilitarism, and environmental protection throughout his life. Zusammenfassung Twenty-seven years in the making (1940–67), this tapestry of nearly two hundred American popular and protest songs was created by three giants of performance and musical research: Alan Lomax, indefatigable collector and preserver; Woody Guthrie, performer and prolific balladeer; and Pete Seeger, entertainer and educator who has introduced three generations of Americans to their musical heritage. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introductory Note - Nora GuthrieForeword - John SteinbeckPublisher's Foreword - Irwin SilberIntroduction - Woody GuthrieAbout WoodyI - Hard Luck on the FarmII - You're Dead BrokeIII - So You Got to Hit the RoadIV - And You Land in JailV - Some from the Old WobbliesVI - Old Time Songs from All OverVII - Hell Busts Loose in KentuckyVIII - So You Hollered for a New DealIX - The Okie SectionX - Detroit Sets DownXI - The Farmers Get TogetherXII - One Big UnionXIII - Mulligan Stew Compiler's Postscript - Alan LomaxAfterword 1999 - Pete SeegerIndex of Songs...
