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Here’s an interesting article about the same musician: https://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-07-21/why-woody-guthries-guitar-was-a-fascist-killer.html

Relevant paragraph:

Woody Guthrie’s guitar didn’t kill fascists because it fired bullets. It killed by neutralizing the fascists. Music, like culture, has the power to defeat right-wing extremists and their antidemocratic ideas rooted in xenophobia, racism, homophobia and sexism. Guthrie fought using ideas, language, music and the shared desire to build a better future together.

  • Drusas@fedia.io
    15·
    2 days ago

    If you are interested in watching one of the most awkward movies ever, you should check out Alice’s Restaurant, based on a song by Woody Guthrie’s son, Arthur Guthrie.

    • Fondots@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      1 day ago

      *Arlo

      But yeah, the movie was pretty bad. It’s based somewhat on real events but with a lot of made up shit thrown in that Arlo himself didn’t like. The real-life Alice actually just died a few weeks ago.

      • Drusas@fedia.io
        2·
        17 hours ago

        Thanks. I use voice to text and really need to proofread more often.

        I swear, voice to text was better on Android 12 than after it got the big upgrade on Android 13 (if I’m recalling the versions correctly). Though it was still an issue then.

        Edit calling: Correcting voice to text grammar

      • Big_Boss_77@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
        10·
        1 day ago

        You know, if one person, just one person does it they may think he’s really sick, and they won’t take him. And if two people, two people do it—in harmony—they may think they’re both faggots and they won’t take either of ‘em. And three people do it—three, can you imagine?—three people walking in, singing a bar of Alice’s Restaurant and walking out?—they may think it’s an organization. And can you—can you imagine fifty people a day—I said fifty people a day!—walkin’ in, singin’ a bar of Alice’s Restaurant and walking out. And friends, they may think it’s a movement! And that’s what it is, the Alice’s Restaurant Anti-Massacree Movement, and all you got to do to join is sing it the next time it comes around on the guitar. With feeling

        So we’ll wait til it comes around on the guitar here, and sing it when it does.‎‎ Here it comes.‎

    • jagged_circle@feddit.nlEnglish
      3·
      1 day ago

      It was shocking how sexist we were in the 60s.

      Similar to how I feel about listening to Guthrie celebrate smoke rising from industrial chimneys.

    • cabbage@piefed.socialEnglish
      3·
      1 day ago

      Arlo is also notourious for his recording of The City of New Orleans. He didn’t write it, but he made it famous, and it has since been recorded by just about everyone.