Guthrie’s legacy is well worth celebrating. This year, there are countless concerts, performances, and other events being planned to celebrate what would have been Guthrie’s one hundredth birthday. Conversely, it’s also filled the air at union rallies, antiwar demonstrations, and, most recently, actions of the Occupy movement. It’s been featured over the years in commercials for Coca-Cola and American Airlines, and performed on floats at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. “This Land Is Your Land” is one of the best-known songs in US history-even among those who know nothing else of Guthrie’s works. Their song of choice? “This Land Is Your Land” by Woody Guthrie.įew musicians or songwriters have had as massive an impact on American music as Woody Guthrie. There, living folk legend Pete Seeger, along with Bruce Springsteen and Seeger’s grandson, Tao, backed by a multiracial choir led the large crowd in a celebratory sing-along. had given his “I Have a Dream” speech, was palpable. The historic symbolism of gathering in front of the Lincoln Memorial, where Martin Luther King Jr. It was the day before the inauguration of Barack Obama as president of the United States, a country where it had once been perfectly legal to own someone with Black skin. ON JANUARY 19, 2009, a crowd of thousands gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
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