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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 1 Feb 2015
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      2. It's worth pointing out that Guthrie has long been appropriated and misappropriated by all sorts of musicians and causes.

      2 replies 9 retweets 16 likes
    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 1 Feb 2015
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      3. Guthrie of course was the bard of the Popular Front, which in itself is one reason why his music lends itself to disparate causes.

      3 replies 8 retweets 9 likes
    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 1 Feb 2015
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      4. It's a Cold War mistake to see the Popular Front as simply a charade, it had a genuine element of alliance building and outreach.

      2 replies 7 retweets 11 likes
    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 1 Feb 2015
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      5. So even though Guthrie was a (ssshhh) communist, his music was written to have broad appeal: the popular side of the Popular Front.

      1 reply 7 retweets 10 likes
    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 1 Feb 2015
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      6. The original 1940 version of This Land is Your Land, a response to Berlin's complacent God Bless America very explicitly leftist:

      3 replies 20 retweets 14 likes
    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 1 Feb 2015
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      7. "Was a high wall there that tried to stop me A sign was painted said: Private Property, But on the back side it didn't say nothing"

      5 replies 18 retweets 29 likes
    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 1 Feb 2015
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      8. Part of the success of Guthrie is that even people who didn't share his bracing politics felt the need to claim a stake in art.

      1 reply 9 retweets 11 likes
    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 1 Feb 2015
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      9. Fairly early in their careers, both Bob Dylan & Bruce Springsteen cast themselves as the heirs to Guthrie.

      5 replies 6 retweets 9 likes
    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 1 Feb 2015
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      10. Meanwhile This Land got watered down until it became exactly what it was written to oppose: a self-satisfied patriotic anthem.

      5 replies 25 retweets 31 likes
    10. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 1 Feb 2015
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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.

      6 replies 9 retweets 14 likes
      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 1 Feb 2015

      12. Of course, when Pete Seeger sang This Land in 2008 during Obama's inauguration, he restored the oft-suppressed anti-property verses.

      8:28 PM - 1 Feb 2015 from Calgary, Alberta
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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 1 Feb 2015
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          13. The singing of This Land in 1988 GOP convention part of a larger Reaganite attempt to claim popular music as conservative patrimony.

          5 replies 4 retweets 11 likes
        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 1 Feb 2015
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          14. Both George Will and Ronald Reagan hailed Springsteen's "Born in the USA" as a patriotic celebration of America.

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