6. The original 1940 version of This Land is Your Land, a response to Berlin's complacent God Bless America very explicitly leftist:
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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"
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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.
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9. Fairly early in their careers, both Bob Dylan & Bruce Springsteen cast themselves as the heirs to Guthrie.
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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.
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@AdelePerry The settler-colonialist subtextual assumptions one reason why song can so easily be appropriated by the right.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@HeerJeet and remind us that both left and right have often shared a commitment to nation and empire.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@HeerJeet but it is also a testament to settler anxiety: no dude, it isn't your land, if it was you wouldn't need this song.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
@AdelePerry Also why it's a campfire favorite -- camp being place where settler identity so often given vernacular form.
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