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Dust Bowl: Woody Guthrie
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Oklahoma-born song writer Woody Guthrie wrote several ballads about the plight of the Dust Bowl refugees. In "Do Re Mi" he offered an unheeded warning about the unfulfilled promises of the Golden State:
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Students could create a multimedia presentation about the Dust Bowl. For example, a transcript such as Interview of a Migrant, available on the EDSITEment resource The New Deal Network, could serve as the basis for a dramatic reading. Expand the performance with photographs and songs from the era, such as those by Woody Guthrie.
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Critic's Review: Sixty years after the recordings were first released, Woody Guthrie's odes to the Dust Bowl are presented in their third different configuration. RCA Victor Records, the only major label for which Guthrie ...Read full review
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Shindo examines the images of Dust Bowl migrants in photography, fiction, film, and song and marks off the various distances between these representations and the realities of migrant lives. He shows how photographer Dorothea Lange, novelist John Steinbeck, Hollywood filmmaker John Ford, and folksinger Woody Guthrie, as well as folklorists and government reformers, sympathized with the migrants' plight but ... appropriated that experience to further their own aesthetic and ideological agendas.
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