Sentences with phrase «american folk song»

The title, borrowed from Woody Guthrie's iconic 1940 American folk song, invokes the emotional tone and thematic structure of this exhibition: a broad and diverse array of perspectives focusing on social engagement within the ever - changing American landscape.

The landscapes look familiar enough from Western painting and Western narratives, for all their polar extremes — just as «Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair» is an American folk song, Kerry James Marshall has taken to the barber shop as the locus of African American community, and blackness has a dark place in America's history.

It has a good deal less violence, obscenity and sex than Homer's «Odyssey,» and not nearly as much as the average American folk song.

Not exact matches

In addition to American folk music, the songs and dances you'll learn will offer your students a breadth of diverse cultural riches, brought to you by a teacher who has done extensive research into dances of many cultures.

Other songs seem to rekindle the spirit of her Noughties albums: both «America» and «Trouble's Lament» share the AOR / folk flavour of «Scarlet's Walk», «The Beekeeper» and «American Doll Posse».

The title is borrowed from a folk - song popular in American jails, relating to a superstition that prisoners who felt the lights of the eponymous passing train on their faces would soon be released, would gain liberation and thus salvation.

Increasingly disillusioned with American politics and the government's abandonment of its poorest citizens, Guthrie was compelled to speak out, tirelessly crisscrossing the nation to entertain and advocate for the nation's poorest people with his songs, eventually earning himself a permanent place as one of America's great folk heroes.

The father of American folk music, Woody Guthrie influenced generations of Americans with his witty journalism and landmark songs.

Stories and folk songs performed by Wheeless, accompanied on guitar by her son include Southern, African - American, and English tales.

The actual songs you find on the included radio station are a mixture of American rock tunes, and a gospel folk that I found marvellous to hear as I went driving into battle.

Works such as In Other Folks Homes ($ 2,000 - $ 4,000) and I Have Given the World My Songs ($ 1,500 - $ 2,500) by Elizabeth Catlett illustrate the turbulent time of the integration of African - Americans into a predominantly white urban society while her Torture of Mothers ($ 800 - $ 1,200) and Angela Libre ($ 1,500 - $ 2,500) reflect the ongoing civil rights movement of the 1970s.

Her images of trains, train - hoppers, and the American West allude to a hobo mythology developed in folk songs and literature.

The great American folk singer, Woody Guthrie, wrote many songs inspired by the hardships of the time, e.g.,

Because the writer of that song was Woody Guthrie, the very model of the American folk - singing, pro-labour protester; and I've just come across his «New Years Rulin's» (sic) from 1942, which recommend themselves to me more than most of the resolutions that get batted about.

CulturalEquity.org — A sampler of 5 Lomax recordings of American folk singers — Various artists — The link takes you right into a playlist of five songs of different styles, all recorded by the great Alan Lomax and released recently on CulturalEquity «s new label, Global Jukebox.