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Woody Guthrie: And the Dust Bowl Ballads
Nick Hayes
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Description for Woody Guthrie: And the Dust Bowl Ballads
Hardcover. Forged in the Dustbowl of the 1930s, in an America crippled by the Great World Recession, this humble man found solace in song, and soon those songs became the voice of the People - men and women who had seen their lives deracinated and destroyed by the vicissitudes of global economic forces beyond their control. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 215 x 31. Weight in Grams: 998.
Forged in the Dustbowl of the 1930s, in an America crippled by the Great World Recession, this humble man found solace in song, and soon those songs became the voice of the People - men and women who had seen their lives deracinated and destroyed by the vicissitudes of global economic forces beyond their control. Guthrie's influence lives on, a touchstone for Bob Dylan, The Clash and the protest singers of the Occupy movement today. With a delighted eye, and an ear for a tune, Nick Hayes's follow-up to the critically acclaimed Rime of the Modern ... Read more
Forged in the Dustbowl of the 1930s, in an America crippled by the Great World Recession, this humble man found solace in song, and soon those songs became the voice of the People - men and women who had seen their lives deracinated and destroyed by the vicissitudes of global economic forces beyond their control. Guthrie's influence lives on, a touchstone for Bob Dylan, The Clash and the protest singers of the Occupy movement today. With a delighted eye, and an ear for a tune, Nick Hayes's follow-up to the critically acclaimed Rime of the Modern ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Jonathan Cape
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780224097314
SKU
V9780224097314
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Ref
99-99
About Nick Hayes
Nick Hayes is the author of The Rime of the Modern Mariner, an updating of Coleridge's famous poem, and the visual biography Woody Guthrie and the Dust Bowl Ballads, both of which are among the most highly regarded of recent British long-form comics. He has also published two collections of his short comics, Lovely Grey Day and 11 Folk Songs. ... Read more
Reviews for Woody Guthrie: And the Dust Bowl Ballads
Holds within its pages a tremendous sense of time and place... Hayes has set out on an ambitious path and creates a vivid and unforgiving picture.
Design Week
An inventive and expansive biography worthy of its subject.
Big Issue
A step up [for Hayes] in ambition and execution... An inventive and expansive ... Read more
Design Week
An inventive and expansive biography worthy of its subject.
Big Issue
A step up [for Hayes] in ambition and execution... An inventive and expansive ... Read more