MUCO 120 1st Edition Lecture 19 Outline of Last Lecture I. Folk RevivalA. Bob DylanB. Woody GuthrieOutline of Current Lecture I. Folk RevivalA. Woody Guthrie’s Widowed LyricsB. Pete Seeger and the People’s MovementC. The 60’sCurrent Lecture Folk Revival- Woody Guthrie’s Widowed Lyricso His daughter sought out bands that would use Woody’s lyrics in their own musical way. She didn’t want the songs to sound like her father.o Billy Bragg and Wilco made an album with some of his lyrics and named it Mermaid Avenue.- Pete Seeger and the People’s Movemento Woody Guthrie was also a part of this movement.o Pete Seeger was involved with The Almanac Singers.o Seeger connected the 30’s-40’s to the folk revival in the 60’s.o Pete Seeger and The Weavers obtained hits on the Hit Parade in the late 1950’s. “Wimoweh” was an African song that they covered without translation to English. Pete found the person who wrote this song and gave him and his family wealth. “When the Saints Go Marching In” is another one of their songs. o Seeger was thought to be a communist and was blacklisted.o He was a singer in the civil rights movement. He write the song “We Shall Overcome” for the civil rights movement. This song was based on the two oldspirituals “I’ll Be Alright” and “I Will Overcome.” o The Highlander Folk School was a place that taught civil rights’ songs. It was originally located in Monteagle, TN. It then moved to Knoxville because the school was shut down. Its current location is New Market, TN. “We Shall These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is bestused as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.Overcome” was taught in this school. Pete Seeger taught this song in the north, while Guy Carawan taught this same song in the south. They also copyrighted this song. Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr. both attended this school at one point.- The 60’so Occurring during this time: voting rights, segregation legally ended, first African American became cabinet member, JFK and his assassination, Martin Luther King, Jr., Cold War, Cuban missile crisis, and Vietnam War.o The development of folk music was also occurring during the 1960’s. Folk musicians moved to Greenwich Village in Gerdes Folk City.o Bob Dylan first went to Woody Guthrie’s family home when he moved to NewYork City. He wrote Guthrie a song. The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan was Dylan’s album to begin his successful career. He was known by several titles: Bob Dylan the Protest Singer, Bob Dylan the Ballad Singer, Bob Dylan the Poet, and Bob Dylan the Singer Songwriter.These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a
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