This Great and Crowded City: Woody Guthrie’s Los Angeles

This Great and Crowded City: Woody Guthrie’s Los Angeles

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Distinguished scholars, musicians, and writers came together for a conference that explored Woody Guthrie’s rise to fame in Depression-era Los Angeles. They discussed Guthrie’s itinerant wanderings through California and the far West, the Dust Bowl culture he drew upon in his songs of commentary and protest, and the backdrop of Los Angeles at the dawn of the Second World War. Born Woodrow Wilson Guthrie on July 14, 1912, Woody Guthrie became the ...Read More

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Woody Guthrie’s Sense of ...

14 Apr 2012 | 08 mins 27 secs

Woody Guthrie’s Sens...

14 Apr 2012 | 08 mins 27 secs

Woody Guthrie’s Musical A...

14 Apr 2012 | 19 mins 07 secs

Woody Guthrie’s Musi...

14 Apr 2012 | 19 mins 07 secs

“‘Being in the Red’: Wood...

14 Apr 2012 | 21 mins 15 secs

“‘Being in the Red’:...

14 Apr 2012 | 21 mins 15 secs

The Guthrie Prestos: Unco...

14 Apr 2012 | 25 mins 28 secs

The Guthrie Prestos:...

14 Apr 2012 | 25 mins 28 secs

Radio and the Evangelical...

14 Apr 2012 | 20 mins 51 secs

Radio and the Evange...

14 Apr 2012 | 20 mins 51 secs

Ramblin’ in Black and Whi...

14 Apr 2012 | 47 mins 39 secs

Ramblin’ in Black an...

14 Apr 2012 | 47 mins 39 secs

Woody Guthrie, Tom Joad, ...

14 Apr 2012 | 25 mins 02 secs

Woody Guthrie, Tom J...

14 Apr 2012 | 25 mins 02 secs

Guthrie, Steinbeck, and t...

14 Apr 2012 | 15 mins 33 secs

Guthrie, Steinbeck, ...

14 Apr 2012 | 15 mins 33 secs

California Border Blues: ...

14 Apr 2012 | 25 mins 17 secs

California Border Bl...

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