Woody Guthrie - Hard Times and Hard Travellin
Center for the Study of the Americas and The Student Association for the Study of the Americas invite you to a concert and lecture with Will Kaufman.
Woody Guthrie: Hard Times and Hard Travellin' is an hour-long musical programme that sets the songs of Woody Guthrie in the context of the American 1930s -- the Dust Bowl, the Depression, the New Deal and the state of popular music itself. Will Kaufman brings such hard-hitting Guthrie songs as 'Vigilante Man', 'Pretty Boy Floyd' and 'I Ain't Got No Home' into conversation with other songs of the Depression Era -- from Joe Hill's 'The Preacher and the Slave' to 'Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?'. These renditions, buttressed by detailed historical commentary, exemplify the blending of music and radical politics that marks Guthrie's most powerful and evocative work.
Dr. Will Kaufman is from New Jersey and is a Reader in English and American Studies at the University of Central Lancashire, Preston, England. He has published widely on many aspects of American culture and has been a semi-professional folksinger and musician for over thirty years.
Admission: 10 DKK (to be paid at the door). Drinks can be purchased in the Café before and after the performance.
The Center for the Study of the Americas fosters research activities on cultural, political, economic and business issues within the American continents. Please read more about the Center - and join our mailing list - on our website.
Further enquiries Center for the Study of the Americas, Copenhagen Business School, Dalgas Have 15, 2000 Frederiksberg. Mail: csa.eng@cbs.dk, phone: (+45) 3815 3389, web: www.cbs.dk/csa