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| Title | : | This Land that I Love: Irving Berlin, Woody Guthrie, and the Story of Two American Anthems |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.41 (537 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 161039223X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-10-05 |
| Language | : | English |
Finally, the bibliography is more popular than academic, and the recommended listening essay is full of fascination. national anthems. national anthems, “God Bless America” and “This Land Is Your Land,” Shaw tells those of most of their predecessors, too, including the official one, “The Star-Spangled Banner.” So doing, he recaps much American musical-entertainment history and intertwines the careers of his main subjects’ creators, Irving Berlin and Woody Guthrie. From Booklist In telling the stories of those unofficial U.S. Guthrie never really finished his song, tinkering with the words until Huntington’s disease disabled him (others, including Pete Seeger, further messed with them). Coursing through the account
Five Stars This is a great addition to our library!. Sing Songs of America John Shaw masterfully entwines the lives of two songwriters (Irving Berlin and Woody Guthrie) and two of their most famous songs (God Bless America and This Land is Your Land) in This Land I Love. He explores a number of parallels in their lives in regard to poverty stricken early life, early success, etc. He also contrasts their differences in background, politics, and succes. "American history I never expected, but loved reading" according to A Reader. This is a fantastic and very well researched book. It would be interesting for music lovers, as well as those interested in Jewish or African-American culture, American history and more. It's dense in content so takes some time to get through but is well worth the effort. As I read it I keep thinking of all the people I would recommend it to.
Though Guthrie’s image was defined by train-hopping, Irving Berlin had also risen from homelessness, having worked his way up from the streets of New York.At the same time, This Land That I Love sheds new light on our patriotic musical heritage, from Yankee Doodle” and The Star-Spangled Banner” to Martin Luther King’s recitation from My Country ’Tis of Thee” on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in August 1963. Near-starving and penniless, he was traveling from Texas to New York to make a new start. Delving into the deeper history of war songs, minstrelsy, ragtime, country music, folk music, and African American spirituals, Shaw unearths a rich vein of half-forgotten musical traditions. With Germany on the march, and Japan at war with China, the global crisis was in a crescendo. It would encompass the dark realities of the Dust Bowl and Great Depression, and it would begin with the lines: This land is your land, this land is my land.”In This Land That I Love, John Shaw writes the dual biography of these beloved American songs. February, 1940: After a decade of worldwide depression, World War II had begun in Europe and Asia. Some people say t
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