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Thread #90978   Message #1774960
Posted By: GUEST,bob af
03-Jul-06 - 03:28 PM
Thread Name: Woody Guthrie Birthday Bash VI
Subject: RE: Woody Guthrie Birthday Bash VI
As we approach the 40th anniversary of Woody Guthrie's death next year, presumably it could be possible to more aggressively pressure the U.S. Military-Industrial-Media-Music Industry Complex [MIMMIC] to immediately start televising more authentic tributes to Woody Guthrie's actual musical legacy, such as the "Woody Guthrie Birthday Bash VI".

This July 2006 also marks the 60th anniversary letter of Woody Guthrie's July 15, 1946 letter in which he wrote the following:

"When you ask yourself which of the so-called folk singers live up to the real name, you can cross lots of their names entirely off of your list...Ask yourself, does the singer, (artist or poet), take part in the fight to win a better world for the worker? There is only one big fight with a million and one legs to it, the fight of the worker to win his fair share from his owner (boss, etc.). The more the owners allow a singer to be heard around, the less he can sing the tale of the worker's fight. Before your voice can be heard or your face fotographed, you must actually turn into a weapon of the owner against the worker. I know from a hundred cases of my own experience that any work of protest, fight, militance or plan for the worker, was blue pencilled, and censored a dozen times. Any word that was too true, too strong, or too loud in criticizing the world owned by the big boss was scratched out by several hands under a thousand reasons."