I'm looking forward to this wonderful collection of protest songs I ordered from amazon. Years ago I had found a little red book of protest songs at Left Bank Books in Seattle, which I gave to a friend who was a union organizer at the time.
It is hard not to think of Nebraska without thinking of its greatest writer. Here is a marvelous piece by Capote, Remembering Willa Cather . I remember seeing a stage production of O Pioneers! and being deeply moved by its raw emotions. I had read My Antonia before, and soon found myself hooked, like Capote was by the simple elegance of her prose and the way she was able to evoke so many feelings through her characters. Much of it came from the fact that she had lived those experiences herself. Her father dragged the family from Virginia to Nebraska in 1883, when it was still a young state, settling in the town of Red Cloud. named after one of the great Oglala chiefs. Red Cloud was still alive at the time, living on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, in the aftermath of the "Great Sioux Wars" of 1876-77. I don't know whether Cather took any interest in the famous chief, although it is hard to imagine not. Upon his death in 1909, he was eulogi
This will go with my new calendar -- 12 posters for peace and justice.
ReplyDeleteUtah Phillips died last year. A huge loss.
Here it is, but they don't show the photos -- some of them are really good:
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The cover is a gas pump with the words no blood for oil.
Michael Moore should have included Pete Seeger's "The Banks Are Made of Marble" in his "Capitalism: A Love Story." Looks like a good set, Gintaras.
ReplyDeleteIt does look like a gold box of music. Haven't seen Moore's new movie yet.
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