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Guthrie kept moving throughout his life, making friends, soaking up influences, and writing about his experiences. Along the way, he produced more than 3,000 songs, as well as fiction, journalism, poetry, and visual art, that gave voice to the distressed and dispossessed. In this insightful audiobook, Will Kaufman examines the artist’s career through a unique perspective: the role of time and place in Guthrie’s artistic evolution.
Guthrie disdained boundaries - whether of geography, class, race, or religion. Nevertheless, places were critical to Guthrie’s life, thought, and creativity. He referred to himself as a “compass-pointer man”, and after his sojourn in California, he headed up to the Pacific Northwest, on to New York, and crossed the Atlantic as a merchant marine.
To map Guthrie’s movements across space and time, the author draws not only on the artist’s considerable recorded and published output but on a wealth of unpublished sources - including letters, essays, song lyrics, and notebooks. This trove of primary documents deepens Kaufman’s intriguing portrait of a unique American artist.
This book is published by University of Oklahoma Press and University Press Audiobooks.
"Our preeminent Woody Guthrie scholar delivers yet again." (Brian Hosmer, University of Tulsa)
"The reader is in good hands as Will Kaufman guides us along Woody’s road and his path across the seas to explore the places and spaces that inspired America’s greatest balladeer." (Deana McCloud, Executive Director, Woody Guthrie Center)
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Jazz. Bootleggers. Flappers. Talkies. Model T Fords. Lindbergh's history-making flight over the Atlantic. The 1920s was also the decade of the hard-won vote for women, racial injustice, censorship, social conflict, and the birth of organized crime.
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My High School History Class Never Told
- De Charles Stembridge en 06-29-04
De: Nathan Miller
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Can't Stop Won't Stop
- A History of the Hip-Hop Generation
- De: Jeff Chang
- Narrado por: Mirron Willis
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Forged in the fires of the Bronx and Kingston, Jamaica, hip-hop became the Esperanto of youth rebellion and a generation-defining movement. In a post-civil rights era defined by deindustrialization and globalization, hip-hop crystallized a multiracial, polycultural generation's worldview and transformed American politics and culture. But that epic story has never been told with this kind of breadth, insight, and style.
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Not About Hip Hop Music
- De A. Yerkes en 09-06-19
De: Jeff Chang
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Harlem
- The Four Hundred Year History from Dutch Village to Capital of Black America
- De: Jonathan Gill
- Narrado por: James Patrick Cronin
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Harlem is perhaps the most famous, iconic neighborhood in the United States. A bastion of freedom and the capital of black America, Harlem's 20th-century renaissance changed our arts, culture, and politics forever. But this is only one of the many chapters in a wonderfully rich and varied history. In Harlem, historian Jonathan Gill presents the first complete chronicle of this remarkable place.
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Very Interesting.
- De Joyce Mirowski en 06-05-20
De: Jonathan Gill
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Where the Jews Aren't
- The Sad and Absurd Story of Birobidzhan, Russia's Jewish Autonomous Region
- De: Masha Gessen
- Narrado por: Christina Delaine
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In 1929, the Soviet government set aside a sparsely populated area in the Soviet Far East for settlement by Jews. The place was called Birobidzhan. The idea of an autonomous Jewish region was championed by Jewish Communists, Yiddishists, and intellectuals, who envisioned a haven of post-oppression Jewish culture. By the mid-1930s tens of thousands of Soviet Jews, as well as about a thousand Jews from abroad, had moved there.
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The Jewish World of Our Ancestors
- De Roberta L. Ruben en 06-16-18
De: Masha Gessen
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1959
- The Year Everything Changed
- De: Fred Kaplan
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
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Acclaimed national security columnist and noted cultural critic Fred Kaplan looks past the 1960s to the year that really changed AmericaWhile conventional accounts focus on the 60s as the era of pivotal change that swept the nation, Fred Kaplan argues that it was 1959 that ushered in the wave of tremendous cultural, political, and scientific shifts that would play out in the decades that followed.
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Facinating look at a neglected moment in history
- De James en 05-25-11
De: Fred Kaplan
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A Different Mirror
- A History of Multicultural America
- De: Ronald Takaki
- Narrado por: Peter Berkrot
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Upon its first publication, A Different Mirror was hailed by critics and academics everywhere as a dramatic new retelling of our nation's past. Beginning with the colonization of the New World, it recounts the history of America in the voice of the non-Anglo peoples of the United States---Native Americans, African Americans, Jews, Irish Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos, and others---groups who helped create this country's rich mosaic culture.
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All mirrors distort
- De Michael en 04-02-17
De: Ronald Takaki
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Where I Was From
- De: Joan Didion
- Narrado por: Gabrielle De Cuir
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In her moving and insightful new book, Joan Didion reassesses parts of her life, her work, her history and ours. A native Californian, Didion applies her scalpel-like intelligence to the state’s ethic of ruthless self-sufficiency in order to examine that ethic’s often tenuous relationship to reality. Combining history and reportage, memoir and literary criticism, Where I Was From explores California’s romances with land and water; its unacknowledged debts to railroads, aerospace, and big government; the disjunction between its code of individualism and its fetish for prisons.
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California belongs to Joan Didion.
- De Darwin8u en 11-04-15
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The Mirage Factory
- Illusion, Imagination, and the Invention of Los Angeles
- De: Gary Krist
- Narrado por: Rob Shapiro
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Little more than a century ago, the southern coast of California - bone-dry, harbor-less, isolated by deserts and mountain ranges - seemed destined to remain scrappy farmland. Then, as if overnight, one of the world’s iconic cities emerged. At the heart of Los Angeles’ meteoric rise were three flawed visionaries: William Mulholland, an immigrant ditch-digger turned self-taught engineer; D.W. Griffith, who transformed the motion picture from a vaudeville-house novelty into a cornerstone of American culture; and Aimee Semple McPherson, a charismatic evangelist.
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Great start, weak completion
- De steve en 05-11-21
De: Gary Krist
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The Jaguar Smile
- A Nicaraguan Journey
- De: Salman Rushdie
- Narrado por: John Curless
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"I did not go to Nicaragua intending to write a book, or, indeed, to write at all: but my encounter with the place affected me so deeply that in the end I had no choice." So notes Salman Rushdie in his first work of nonfiction, a book as imaginative and meaningful as his acclaimed novels. In The Jaguar Smile, Rushdie paints a brilliantly sharp and haunting portrait of the people, the politics, the terrain, and the poetry of "a country in which the ancient, opposing forces of creation and destruction were in violent collision".
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simply Amazing!
- De Cesar Briones en 07-01-18
De: Salman Rushdie
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Latino Americans
- The 500-Year Legacy That Shaped a Nation
- De: Ray Suarez
- Narrado por: Ray Suarez
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As the largest minority in the country, Latino Americans make up an integral part of American history and continue to make major social, cultural, and political contributions. Latino Americans, vividly and candidly tells how the story of Latino Americans is the story of the United States, revealing the personal struggles and successes of immigrants, poets, soldiers, and others who have made an impact on history.
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Unknown Latino History
- De Lou en 11-27-18
De: Ray Suarez
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A Little History of the World
- De: E. H. Gombrich
- Narrado por: Ralph Cosham
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E. H. Gombrich's world history, an international best seller now available in English for the first time, is a text dominated not by dates and facts but by the sweep of experience across the centuries, a guide to humanity's achievements, and an acute witness to its frailties.
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an enlightening book; very well read
- De A.B.Oxford en 06-03-06
De: E. H. Gombrich
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We Don't Know Ourselves
- A Personal History of Modern Ireland
- De: Fintan O'Toole
- Narrado por: Aidan Kelly
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In We Don't Know Ourselves, Fintan O'Toole weaves his own experiences into Irish social, cultural, and economic change, showing how Ireland, in just one lifetime, has gone from a reactionary "backwater" to an almost totally open society - perhaps the most astonishing national transformation in modern history. O'Toole narrates the once unthinkable collapse of the all-powerful Catholic Church, brought down by scandal and by the activism of ordinary Irish. He relates the horrific violence of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, which led most Irish to reject violent nationalism.
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Relentlessly Negative
- De John en 06-02-22
De: Fintan O'Toole
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Good Day!
- The Paul Harvey Story
- De: Paul J. Batura
- Narrado por: Paul J. Batura
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In Good Day!: The Paul Harvey Story, author Paul J. Batura follows the remarkable life of one of the founding fathers of the news media. Paul Harvey started his career during the Great Depression and narrated America's story day by day, through wars and peace, the threat of communism and the crumbling of old colonial powers, consumer booms and eventual busts.
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Should have been better
- De Royce Brown en 12-21-09
De: Paul J. Batura
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- Rebecca Azizov
- 03-23-19
such a wonderful biography
I know it's not the first book and it's a series but I have to say that it's a standalone it's biography from part C two-part D and it's very well written... you understand the history the artist and it's a wonderful book... I enjoyed it a lot .... as a 28 years old woman that learned music in a Russian family I love those kind of books a lot....
I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review
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- Christian
- 03-27-19
An entertaining book about a great artist...
In "Mapping Woody Guthrie" Will Kaufman tells the story of Woody Guthrie's life from a very personal point of view and depicts why he - personally - has been interested in Guthrie's Songs for a long time.
The book was fun to listen to - I really like Peter Lerman's voice also - and I found out a lot about Guthrie's songs and background.
His war experience is also mentioned as well as his huntington's disease for instance. The book is quite an honest and straight forward account that gives a complete picture of Guthrie's songs and his story.
Guthrie's strong stance against fascism as well as his sense of justice become unmistakably clear.
The author directly quotes Guthrie's lyrics often - that made me feel close to him as reader / listener and it makes perfect sense as - according to Woody Guthrie "People remember songs not sermons".
Recommended.
This book was given to me for free at my request and I provided this voluntary review."
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- AJ
- 05-22-19
A solid fan-produced bio that doesn't pull punches
If you ever wanted to learn who Woody Guthrie is, this book is a good place to start. I've been a fan of the man's music since singing some of his songs in school, so I was excited to dive in. I'm glad I did!
Who he was, who he wanted to be, and who he wanted to be viewed as, all of these W's are touched upon with intriguing insights. I appreciated that author Will Kaufman did not pull punches. Yes, he's clearly a fan of the man, but he can also step back and deliver criticism where it's due.
Mapping Woody Guthrie is short, because it's very specific. Kaufman's written other books about Guthrie. With this one he's narrowed down the topic to Guthrie's travelin'. It highlights the major locations across the country that influenced his writing, music and politics. Mostly chronological, the book takes us on a jog through his life, moving from place to place, and showing the evolution that took place. In a way this works well as a brief biography. But I'd only suggest it as a primer in that respect. As a thesis specific to the topics mentioned, it succeeds quite well.
Peter Lerman, whose solid narration of this audiobook suited the subject matter in tone and style. I don't know if it was a problem with my digital copy or the device I listened to it on, but there was some slight sibilance, a buzz in the ears if you will, when the volume was turned up to half or higher. Luckily, I was able to listen mostly on low.
To sum up, I'd highly recommend this for anyone interested enough to read this review all the way to the end!
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- Paul Freund
- 03-16-19
Excellent Stand Alone Reading.
I have followed the history of this era for quite some time. This book was excellent in filling in the gaps where much of what I have heard or read left off. If you wish to learn about the union and freedom movements of the 30's to 70's an excellent source is to follow the music of Woody Guthrie, Arlo, Seeger, The Weavers, Dylan, Baez etc. These folk singers were just not providing entertainment. They were carrying a message. This book highlighted just one of those messengers. The book was provided to me at no cost for an honest unbiased review.
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