Hard Hitting Songs for Hard-Hit People by Woody Guthrie

We have new and used copies available, in 1 editions - starting at 25.00. Looking For That New Deal Now / Darryl Holter, Ani DiFranco / Radio Songs / 2015ĭon’t Take Away My P.W.A. Buy Hard Hitting Songs for Hard-Hit People by Pete Seeger (Afterword by), John Steinbeck (Foreword by), Woody Guthrie (Introduction by) online at Alibris. Hard Hitting Songs for Hard Hit People New York: Oak, 1967. I Don’t Want Your Millions / Barbara Dane / I Hate The Capitalist System / 1973 Guthrie and Seeger were among the most important contributors of music to the American Left. I Am A Union Woman / Rosalie Sorrels / The Long Memory / 1996 Born in Oklahoma in 1912, Woody Guthrie found himself singing 'hard hitting songs for hard hit people' in the migrant labor camps of California in the late 1930s. A simple definition of a folk song is one that is widely known and sung but for which we don’t know the author. The Commonwealth of Toil / Mat Callahan, Yvonne Moore / Working-Class Heroes: A History of Struggle In Song / 2019 Alan Lomax, Woody Guthrie, and Pete Seeger, Hard Hitting Songs for Hard-Hit People (New York: Oak Publications, 1967, reprinted by University of Nebraska Press, 1999). I Ain’t Got No Home / Bob Dylan / A Tribute To Woody Guthrie / 1972 Unemployment Stomp / Big Bill Broonzy / 1938

Pulling some of the most overtly political songs from this collection, which was finally published in 1967, we listen to various recordings spanning the past nine decades. In 1940, Alan Lomax, Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger assembled a book titled Hard Hitting Songs for Hard-Hit People, consisting of roughly 200 songs thats Lomax had documented in his nationwide travels during the Great Depression as director of Library of Congress' Archive of American Folk Song.

Hard Hitting Songs for Hard-Hit People by Woody Guthrie