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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.

  • @[email protected]OPEnglish
    12•2 days ago

    That is a really interesting story! I’m sure if he were still alive he’d be very happy to hear some of his works completed.

    • cabbageEnglish
      23•1 day ago

      This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright # 154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don’t give a dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that’s all we wanted to do.

      — Woody Guthrie on copyright

        • @[email protected]English
          4•23 hours ago

          Yes.

          It’s also quoted by Cory Doctorow at the end of his (Creative Commons licensed) podcasts…and Cory always checks his sources.

        • cabbageEnglish
          1•21 hours ago

          Wikipedia cites the book Woody Guthrie: A Life by Joe Klein as a source, but a bit via via. Seems legit though.