This Land Is Your Land Like Woody Wrote It
Sunday 18 January 2009
by: Tommy Stevenson, Tuscaloosa News (AL)
http://blogs.tuscaloosanews.com/default.asp?item=2317698
Pete Seeger and Bruce Springsteen at the Lincoln
Memorial Concert. Pete Seeger and Bruce Springsteen,
performing at Sunday's
This Land Is Your Land Like Woody Wrote It
Sunday 18 January 2009
by: Tommy Stevenson, Tuscaloosa News (AL)
http://blogs.tuscaloosanews.com/default.asp?item=2317698
Pete Seeger and Bruce Springsteen at the Lincoln
Memorial Concert. Pete Seeger and Bruce Springsteen,
performing at Sunday's
Did it again. Juan Cole is the blogger who everyone turns to for
'analysis' of Iraq.
Apologies to the Juan Colemans of the world.
CJ
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In the 1930's-40's highwater period of US political accomplishments,
many of the intellectuals involved in practical critical activity were
artists and journalists not so much philosophers. Arlo Guthrie, Pete
Seeger, Paul Robeson, Billie Holiday, Lillian Hellman, painter Charles
White, et al.
There's a whole book out on that era: THE CULTURAL FRONT, author is,
I think, Michael Deming.
There are progressive journalists, songwriters, and filmmakers. The
whole institutional and media landscape has changed, though.
At 01:02 PM 9/26/2008, you wrote:
In the 1930's-40's highwater period
I can't think of any philosophers or other academic thinkers in leading
roles. Can you think of any ?
Charles
Ralph Dumain [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/26/2008 1:18 PM
There's a whole book out on that era: THE CULTURAL FRONT, author is,
I think, Michael Deming.
There are progressive journalists,
Sidney Hook played a leading role, as a Marxist in the 1930s. Then
he played a leading anti-communist role.
John Dewey was no Marxist, but he played a leading role as a progressive.
See this partial list of philosophers victimized by McCarthyism:
Thanks for the reference.
I'm thinking of connected to the mass struggles.
Yea, come to think of it Plekanov was a leading Marxist philosopher in
Russia, but by 1917 , he was against the insurrection. Kautsky was a
leading intellectual , and we know about him when it counted.
Dewey's a good
Should US progressive intellectuals in 2008 be looking to other secular
fields of communication besides academic disciplines such as philosophy,
social science , history etc. to get involved in mass ideas and opinions
?
Journalism became an academic major, void of historical content, much
like
I was thinking of this one too as a a specimen of Black Americanism,
but couldn't remember the reference.
At 12:41 PM 6/23/2008, Charles Brown wrote:
Let America Be America Again
by Langston Hughes
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In _Here I Stand_ (1958), Robeson says:
Yes , for well over 300 years my people have been a part of American
life and history. A half-century has passed since W.E.B. Dubois , in his
classic _The Souls of Black Folk_ challenged white Americans in these
words of poetry and truth:
Your country ?
Lets see if Barry can tap the rational kernel of patriotism, love of country
as expressed in the Ballad for Americans.
Ballad For Americans
Ballad For Americans (1939) is an American patriotic cantata with lyrics by
John La Touche and music by Earl Robinson. Originally titled The Ballad for
Yes, Robeson's performance was a radical act for
its time, per Earl Robinson's intention to put
the Negro at the center of the American
experience--a radical act even now, but
increasingly common even in the 1940s, per Duke
Ellington, Richard Wright, et al.
What this has to do with Obama, I
Ralph Dumain
Yes, Robeson's performance was a radical act for
its time, per Earl Robinson's intention to put
the Negro at the center of the American
experience--a radical act even now, but
increasingly common even in the 1940s, per Duke
Ellington, Richard Wright, et al.
What this has to
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