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| Title | : | A Race of Singers: Whitman's Working-Class Hero from Guthrie to Springsteen (Cultural Studies of the United States) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.20 (686 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0807848662 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-06-08 |
| Language | : | English |
Had to read for school Bella0482 I had to read this for grad school and it was alright. Had some interesting parts but was pretty boring overall.. Expanding popular music horizons David Shea Bryan Garman's book provides an indepth study of those singer-songwriters who, according to the author, follow in Whitman's footsteps. He analyzes Woody Guthrie and Springsteen's work thoroughly. The consideration of Guthrie's "hurt song" is fascinating. The author also makes a good case for expanding our horizons beyond the white male heterosexual dominant order. I was rather tak. New Academic Insight on Springsteen As a cultural figure of the late 20th century Bruce Springsteen has long been admired as well as the object of derision in some circles. Garman's work places Springsteen in a context far removed from the fickle nature of fame. By linking Springsteen with Guthrie and with Whitman Garman allows us to appreciate Springsteen as far more than his icon status as "the boss", but rather a
By examining how singers such as Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, and Bruce Springsteen both embraced and reconfigured Whitman's vision, Bryan Garman shows that Whitman succeeded. We can hear America singing in the voices of these artists, Garman says, but it is still the song of a white, male America.. When Walt Whitman published Leaves of Grass in 1855, he dreamed of inspiring a "race of singers" who would celebrate the working class and realize the promise of American democracy. In doing so, Garman celebrates the triumphs yet also exposes the limitations of Whitman's legacy.While Whitman's verse propounded notions of sexual freedom and renounced the competitiveness of capitalism, it also safeguarded the interests of the white workingman, often at the expense of women and people of color. Garman describes how each of Whitman's successors adopted the mantle of the
Garman then finds the embodiment of Whitman's wandering people's poet in folksinger Woody Guthrie, who sang about social justice for all men and women while drifting alone down the open roads of America. Beginning with Whitman himself, he describes the poet's republican vision of an egalitarian social order within the parameters of a white, male-dominated, individualistic society. Highly recommended for social historians.DDavid Szatmary, Univ. of Washington, Seattle Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. The author charts the radicalization of Whitman's ideals from 1892 to 1940 by such leftists as Socialist Horace Traubel and Communist editor Michael Gold. From Library Journal Garman (history, Sidwell Friends Sch., Washington, DC) examines the legacy and limitations of the Whitmanesque working-class hero since the turn of the century. . He ends with Guthrie's direct link to the New Left and Bob Dylan, his fall from radical grace, a
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