1. There's some chatter out there about a Superbowl Jeep commercial using Woody Guthrie's "This Land is Your Land."
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@HeerJeet Just like Born in the USA.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet yes, but hearing the original is still beautiful...a young Bobbie Dylan does a particularly heartfelt version...Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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11. "This Land is Your Land" was sung In 1988, during the Republican National Convention, crowning George H.W. Bush as nominee.
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@HeerJeet I liked that Billy Bragg and Wilco set some of Guthrie's poetry to music.
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@HeerJeet Not the same, but the Right's appropriation of "Born in the USA" seems to be a similar phenomenon.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet I may have missed something, but don't we need to also analyse This Land as an anthem of (populist) settler colonialism? -
@AdelePerry Very true! - Show replies
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