Briefly discuss the ways in which Woody Guthrie personifies the urban folk song movement.
What will be an ideal response?
Oklahoma (dust bowl) backgroundHis life experiences provided much contact with the common people.Many of his songs had a hard edge of protest.The sign on his guitar read: “This machine kills fascists.”He could write equally well from either personal experience or on commission.intelligent
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This composer was born in Russia at the end of the nineteenth century, experienced his early successes in Paris in the
years immediately preceding WWI, and died in New York in 1971. During his career he created masterpieces in many different genres, and he personified the cultural pluralism and stylistic diversity of cutting-edge art music.
a. Debussy b. Varése c. Schoenberg d. Copland e. Stravinsky
Like many song lyrics of the singer-songwriters, Joni Mitchell's "All I Want" (J. Mitchell, 1971)
features self-confessional sentiments.
a. True b. False