Is This Song Your Song Anymore?: Revisioning Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land"

Jackson, Mark Allan

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American Music

2002

DOI: 10.2307/1350126

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Is This Song Your Song Anymore?: Revisioning Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land"

Mark Allan Jackson¹

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“… Guthrie's anthem has long contained a stanza that implicitly critiques the concept of private property, but which has largely fallen out of popular usage (Jackson 2002). Nonetheless, even the original, more radical version promotes a settler colonial understanding of land—collectivised and universalised instead of privatised (Ross 2016).…”

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“They're treating us like Indians!”: Political Ecologies of Property and Race in North American Pipeline Populism

Bosworth

2018

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While political ecologists have analysed the role of private property in creating and sustaining ecological inequalities, this approach does not often take property as a foundational element of racial capitalism. I argue that the defence of private property in contestation of North American oil pipelines demonstrates the centrality of property not only to the structural reproduction of capital, but also to its Euro‐American subject. Emphasising their affective attachments to land and resentment at dispossession, landowners and populist environmental organisations in the Great Plains frequently compared individual, white experiences of eminent domain to the historic and ongoing dispossession of Native Nations by suggesting “they're treating us like Indians”. In order to account for the reproduction of white supremacy in environmentalism, I argue that we must understand how its oppositional politics are linked to economic interests‐in‐land and affective desires‐for‐land that maintain landed private property.

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“They're treating us like Indians!”: Political Ecologies of Property and Race in North American Pipeline Populism

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Bill Staines's Bridges and the Art of Meta-Folk

Mercer-Taylor

2007

J Soc American Mus

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Folksinger-songwriter Bill Staines came of age at the height of the mid-twentieth-century American folk music revival and has spent the years since then writing and playing music that seems impelled by the conviction that this vanished era's core stylistic premises and clear-eyed optimism remain as alive and available as they were at the revival's peak. Through this exploration of his 1984 album Bridges, I seek to show that Staines accomplishes this fantasy of the revival's continued vitality not, as his commentators frequently suggest, by clinging fast to decades-old stylistic practices but by introducing a dimension of reflexivity into his craft. What comes to matter is not music's political or social meaning but the self-conscious celebration of the idea of music having such a meaning.The article's first section explores Staines's self-mythologizing enfolding of his own persona into Woody Guthrie's in the Guthrie ballad that opens the album. The second section examines Bridges' poetic weaving of music into narratives of social redemption and personal self-actualization. The third section examines Bridges' many moments of diegetic song, which effectively collapse the worlds of Staines's poetic subjects into that of his immediate audience. The last section explores how melodic choices in the traditional song that closes the album have the effect of bringing many of the songs that precede it directly into the fold of traditional music.

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Woody Guthrie and the Columbia River: Propaganda, Art, and Irony

Pedelty¹

2008

Popular Music and Society

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Is This Song Your Song Anymore?: Revisioning Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land"

Cited by 11 publications

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“They're treating us like Indians!”: Political Ecologies of Property and Race in North American Pipeline Populism

“They're treating us like Indians!”: Political Ecologies of Property and Race in North American Pipeline Populism

Bill Staines's Bridges and the Art of Meta-Folk

Woody Guthrie and the Columbia River: Propaganda, Art, and Irony

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