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Lavishly illustrated with previously unseen photographs and illustrations, Pastures of Plenty contains stories, essays, letters, diaries, songs and poems by Woodie Guthrie. Through his deeply personal writings, readers will learn of his ongoing campaign to raise world consciousness and of his involvement in the labor and political movements of the '30s, '40s and '50s. 100 illustrations.… (plus d'informations)
The mix of public and private works from this period ... reveals a striking discrepancy between the aw-shucks artlessness of the public Guthrie and the militancy of the private man... sustained by an unshakable faith that a better world was coming — and that his special calling was to spread the glad news.
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You elected me to this office Of a poet and a singer And I think I know What you want me to do here Things are said in history And they are said again And these of today Have got to be said Said again Because today is our first time To say What we are today-- And I will say And sing of these things These things That you fight for today.
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for Marjorie Guthrie, who made this book possible
Premiers mots
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My mother's name was Nora Belle Tanner, and then she changed it to Nora Belle Guthrie.
I first met Woody in 1947 when I began to attend the folk music "hootennannies" in New York.--Forward by Howard Leventhal
Pastures of Plenty isn't a book about Wooddy Guthrie.--Introduction by Dave Marsh
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The only trouble is with you, you hold it back, you hide it, you ... exercise everything in the world, except that real old song that's in your heart. (p.65)
Music is a weapon, the same as a gun, and can be used by the slave just the same as by the big boss. (p.83)
Songs say in a quick spreading language what politicians grunt in a slow spreading glue. (p.83)
And it is our job... to see to it that the seeds are sown which will grow up into free speech.... For with their songs choked and their pamphlets condemned, their freedom will be throttled down to less than a walk...freedom will just be a rich man's word to print in his big papers and holler over his radio, it won't be real. (p. 54-5)
This bunch of songs are really just one song, cause I used the same notes. Just fixed 'em a little different, that's all. Same old notes as ever. (p.45)
You clear up the foul webs in your own humanly house by forgiving and by forgetting the faults, errors, miscues, and missteps, mistakes of all of the other folks that come across your eyesight. (p.228)
My songs are not to be read like a lesson book nor a text, but to be a key to sort of unlock all of the old bars in you...(p.178)
Music is a tone of voice--a tone of nature, a sound life uses to keep te living alive and call us back many times a day from te brinks of torture and the holes of superstition. (p.106)
Music is the winds that sigh in the leaves on the tree of life...(p.107)
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Lavishly illustrated with previously unseen photographs and illustrations, Pastures of Plenty contains stories, essays, letters, diaries, songs and poems by Woodie Guthrie. Through his deeply personal writings, readers will learn of his ongoing campaign to raise world consciousness and of his involvement in the labor and political movements of the '30s, '40s and '50s. 100 illustrations.
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