12. Of course, when Pete Seeger sang This Land in 2008 during Obama's inauguration, he restored the oft-suppressed anti-property verses.
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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.
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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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15. To be fair to Will and Reagan, while they were wrong about Springsteen's lyrics they were right about the music, which is an anthem.
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16. For more on 1980s conservative appropriation of pop music see here:https://sanseverything.wordpress.com/2010/02/27/hip-hops-debt-to-mickey-rooney/ …
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17. By the way, National Review claimed that hip-hop was an "update of the Mickey Rooney-Judy Garland musical ethos."
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Jeet Heer Retweeted 🏳️🌈 Vicki, now with store-bought antibodies
18. This tweet by gets at what I think is the core issue:https://twitter.com/Vicki/status/562107655452254209 …
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19. Folk music is meant to be collectively owned & shared. Guthrie wanted people to use his songs for their own battles.
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20. So reactionary and even commercial appropriation of Guthrie, as perverse as it is, is in keeping with the communal nature of the music
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21. But if Guthrie has been stolen, the only proper response is to steal him back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnvCPQqQWds …
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22. All this ties in with @CoreyRobin's account of the right being parasitically dependent on absorbing leftist energy/ideas/cultural forms
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23. If I were up to speed, I'd tie
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24. ...but It somehow seems perverse to bring
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