Woody Guthrie

I chose to analyze the song Dust Storm Disaster by Woody Guthrie. The overall message of this song is what the people who lived during the Dust Bowl had seen and had gone through. Guthrie’s lyrics explained how terrible the dust storms were and resulted in a family move. The song lyrics that expressed the message throughout the song was “...You could see that dust storm comin', the cloud looked deathlike black ...We rattled down that highway to never come back again.” The descriptive lyrics…

“Left wing, right wing, chicken wing.” Woody Guthrie was a skilled guitarist who traveled the U.S.A. singing songs and saying famous quotes to inspire people who get put down. He said a very inspirational quote and sang the famous song called “This Land is Your Land”. There are some differences and similarities from what he said and and sang. Both these work of art were meant for everybody who are usually being put down. They were also meant to inspire people. They both were said to make people…

“Everybody might be just one big soul,Well it looks that a-way to me.” Woody Guthrie wrote lots of songs that people loved. He also wrote This Land Is Your Land in 1940. He went all over the USA, to sing songs for people. He also sang 100s of songs around the USA. He sang songs to make people happy. The quote and the song are similar and also different. So to compare the song and the writing that he wrote there are many similarities. For example, the song and the quote both have a message…

Music artists made connections through their lyrics that pertained to the Red Scare. In source 6, Woody Guthrie expressed his sympathy to Communism in “This Land Is Your Land” in 1956. (Woody Guthrie 239). So many films were made about it as well. The theme was either denouncing a family member or friend or becoming corrupt from it as well. According to source 2, I Married a Communist was a drama…

“This land is your land, this land is my land, from California to the New York Island, from the Redwood forests to the Gulfstream waters, this land was made for you and me” (Guthrie). Contrary to the lyrics in “This Land is Your Land” by Woody Guthrie, this land was apparently not made for “you and me.” America was only made for the “me” aspect of the song, “me” being the Americans. Thousands of years ago, the Americas were undiscovered by the Europeans. Now, this land withholds a great country.…

recovering from the hardships of the Great Depression (Roark 732). Woody Guthrie’s 1930’s, “Do Re Mi” explains the typical false expectations that existed among the Okie’s. In his lyrics, he states, ‘“They think they're goin' to a sugar bowl, but here's what they find | Now, the police at the port of entry say | "You're number fourteen thousand for today."” (Guthrie). Okie migrants crossed over to California by the thousands everyday (Guthrie). They viewed California as a “sugar bowl” because…

to New York City in 1961 with the goal of meeting his biggest influence and idol, Woody Guthrie, a traditional folk singer. Woody was a left-wing activist, who used his songs to bring to attention political issues but was diagnosed with Huntington’s chorea. Dylan visited Guthrie often and the following April performed in New York's Gerdes Folk City as the opening act for John Lee Hooker. He played a set of Guthrie-styled folk songs with his own lyrics. A New York Times review on Dylan helped him…

legislation. Sabine has since become a “guinea pig” to “provide the testing ground to find something that can prevent this awful disease affecting generations to come. Woody Guthrie an icon in the folk music world. Woody was diagnosed with huntington’s disease in 1952. During this time Huntington’s Disease wasn’t really known, therefore Woody went untreated. Woody’s daughter (Nora) is an honorary trustee of the Huntington’s Disease Society of America. Huntington’s Disease is a fatal disease…

The true definition of the word country is: and nation with its own government, occupying a particular territory. To people from other places, America is just another country full of audacious idiots. To others it is a place where anyone can become anything. America, to Americans, is home, it's a place where families come together, and have the rights to do as they wish. To be an American means having pride in where you are from and knowing where you stand. "Death to America," has…

The Great Depression had undulating impacts upon all parts of America. Indeed, craftsmen had minimal decision however to respond to the times, or chance getting to be lost. At any rate in incredible part, the 1930s turned into 10 years of narrative expression, one in which specialists investigated exchange representational structures, all outlined with the point of uncovering a regularly frantic reality, or of arranging a departure from this reality as was normal for the movies of that time.…