Woody Guthrie's Modern World Blues
- Submitting institution
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University of Central Lancashire
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 17951
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- University of Oklahoma Press
- ISBN
- 9780806157610
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- October
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- Based on extensive research at the Woody Guthrie Archives, utilising previously unpublished primary sources (Guthrie’s notebooks, letters, song lyrics and prose manuscripts), this is the first full-length study of Guthrie’s relation to modernity and modernism. Importantly, it deliberately challenges impressions of Guthrie as an unlettered, rural folk artist – the “Dust Bowl Balladeer” – and presents him as a knowing, urban, sophisticated, multi-faceted artist, fully engaged with the technological, political, social and creative currents of his time. A reviewer in American Literary History argues that the book offers ‘a bold method of analysis that broadened the field of Guthrie Studies’.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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