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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 10 books in this booklist
£9.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780571309764 | ISBN 10: 0571309763
Think 'Woodstock' and the mind turns to the seminal 1969 festival that crowned a seismic decade of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. But Woodstock itself was over 60 miles from the site to which the fabled half a million flocked. So why the misnomer? Qui ... more
View book details£14.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781785780608 | ISBN 10: 1785780603
Here She Comes Now brings together some of America’s best music writers – such as Susan Choi, recipient of the inaugural PEN / W.G. Sebald award, Daniel Walters, whose credits include the screenplay for Heathers, and Alina Simon, whose novel Note to ... more
View book details£22.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780803244757 | ISBN 10: 0803244754
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, perf ... more
View book details£31.99 hardback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781612052199 | ISBN 10: 1612052193
The father of American folk music, Woody Guthrie influenced generations of musicians and fans with his witty journalism and landmark songs, such as “This Land Is Your Land.” Much has been written about Guthrie, yet nothing communicates who h ... more
View book details£21.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780974412481 | ISBN 10: 0974412481
Labor songs have long pervaded workers’ culture in the United States, beginning in the colonial period and running into the 21st century. Labor unions published songbooks, labor schools encouraged singing, and radical organizations used songs about u ... more
View book details£18.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780826425058 | ISBN 10: 0826425054
Working On a Dream is a powerful and engaging study of this songwriter and performer’s art. Springsteen has consistently summoned his creative power and artistic vision to indict political developments and demand the cultivation of a more compassiona ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780393327366 | ISBN 10: 0393327361
A patriot and a political radical, Woody Guthrie captured the spirit of his times in his enduring songs. He was marked by the FBI as a subversive. He lived in fear of the fatal fires that stalked his family and of the mental illness that snared his ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780571223862 | ISBN 10: 0571223869
In 1965 one song defined a generation, caught in the questing spirit of the era and changed the rules of the possible in popular music for all time. At that point it was the longest hit single to be released, at six minutes and six seconds in length, ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780141187228 | ISBN 10: 0141187220
Bound for Glory is the funny, cynical and earthy autobiography of Woody Guthrie, the father of American folk music. He tells of his childhood running wild in an Oklahoma oil-boom town, the tragedies that struck his family and of his life on the open ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2000) - ISBN 13: 9780717800223 | ISBN 10: 0717800229
The famous Wobbly poet, songwriter and organizer was executed in Salt Lake City on November 19, 1915. Many felt he was not guilty of the murder he was charged with, that he did not have a fair trial, and that he was the victim of class persecution. ... more
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