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...state license plates were common only along borders and ‘cultural’ places like Fallingwater. Certainly it may be more high-rolling to visit Manhattan or more humanitarian to visit Malawi. Neither of these, however, come close to approximating the deeply American need, in Woody Guthrie??s words, to “roam and ramble...
...films irrelevant. He also expressed admiration for the young people who tore up their draft cards, resisted the war, and sought peace—the generation that inspired him to write “Alice’s Restaurant,” a film loosely based on Arlo Guthrie??s anti-war protest song of the same name. “Each generation has its own spirit,” Penn said. “The one that was the generation of ‘Alice’s Restaurant’ was the group that rejected...
...soundtrack. Six actors—Marcus Carl Franklin, Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Cate Blanchett, Richard Gere, and Ben Whishaw—play fictional characters that represent different epochs of Dylan’s life. Tellingly, none of them actually share Dylan’s name. “Woody Guthrie?? is a boy attempting to define himself in terms of folk music’s history. “Jack” is a Greenwich Village folk-music sensation and later, Christian convert and priest. “Robbie,” a counter-culture film star, also...
Most of the best stereotypically “American” rock songs were written at least partly as bitter parodies; witness Woody Guthrie??s “This Land is Your Land,” penned as an Okie anthem in response to Irving Berlin’s saccharine “God Bless America.” Not everyone heard Guthrie??s original lyrics protesting the plight of people who “stood there hungry” in line at the relief office; George H.W. Bush, an unrepentant booster of privatization and welfare...
Springsteen himself is known for covering “This Land” on tour, prefacing his performances with the song’s full backstory, making it clear that his own anthem “Born in the U.S.A.” falls in the same camp as Guthrie??s protest song. The Boss wasn’t wrapping himself in the flag in this song, but calling out a nation for their callous treatment of Vietnam vets. Like Guthrie??s work, the song was misunderstood and appropriated by politicians, this time within a matter...
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