26 Songs In 30 Days

26 Songs In 30 Days by Greg Vandy


Authors
Greg Vandy
ISBN
9781570619700
Published
Released
01 / 04 / 2016
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
208

"In May of 1941, Woody Guthrie was hired by Stephan Kahn of the Bonneville Power Administration to write folk songs for a new film called The Columbia. The government film would promote the benefits of cheap hydroelectric power, irrigation, and land reclamation from a huge public works project on the Columbia River featuring the Bonneville and Grand Coulee Dams. The ambitious New Deal planners and America's most topical songwriter would team up in an effort to create "a new promised land" in the Pacific Northwest. It was ambitious, unlikely, and part of a big optimistic dream to help workers and farmers in the midst of the Great Depression. It was a very unique time in American history, punctuated with utopian dogma, progressive politics, and a new brand of "Americanism" that emphasized the cultural wealth of average citizens. It was the beginnings of an American folk revival as a response to hard times. As a temporary employee, Woody Guthrie was assigned to write a song a day. He wrote 26 in 30 days in a song cycle that was unusually focused and extremely inspiring. Including songs like "Roll On Columbia" and "Pastures of Plenty," many of these songs have become folk song classic
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