TY - JOUR
T1 - Woody Guthrie and the Columbia river
T2 - Propaganda, art, and irony
AU - Pedelty, Mark
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - In 1941, the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) hired Woody Guthrie to record music for a film promoting dams along the Columbia River. A fierce debate rages today concerning the dams. Both sides reference Guthrie's music and image in order to bolster their arguments. An examination of contracts, diaries, lyric sheets, letters, interviews, and other documents housed in the Woody Guthrie Archives reveals that the folk icon's relationship to the project was as complex as the man himself. The case is instructive, for both informing the current debate and, more generally, understanding the relationship between institutional sponsorship and art.
AB - In 1941, the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) hired Woody Guthrie to record music for a film promoting dams along the Columbia River. A fierce debate rages today concerning the dams. Both sides reference Guthrie's music and image in order to bolster their arguments. An examination of contracts, diaries, lyric sheets, letters, interviews, and other documents housed in the Woody Guthrie Archives reveals that the folk icon's relationship to the project was as complex as the man himself. The case is instructive, for both informing the current debate and, more generally, understanding the relationship between institutional sponsorship and art.
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U2 - 10.1080/03007760701219079
DO - 10.1080/03007760701219079
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:57749129041
SN - 0300-7766
VL - 31
SP - 329
EP - 355
JO - Popular Music and Society
JF - Popular Music and Society
IS - 3
ER -