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"You Gals Who Want to Be Free": A Feminist Perspective on the Evolution of Woody Guthrie\u27s "Union Maid"
Get PDFFolk songs are a specific kind of poetry. They are symbolic and rhetorical. They are also, although it seems contradictory, both contextual and universal. “Union Maid” exemplifies this, maintaining cultural relevancy at nearly seventy-five years old. Yet the ways in which it has evolved over time play out many of the “grand tropes” of women’s, especially women workers’, history in the United States. There were other “women’s union songs” written around the same time as “Union Maid,” but this song has had a particular sticking-place in the feminist-folk-labor imagination and it is particularly ripe for a feminist analysis. This essay explores “Union Maid” as a changing song and examines its place within understandings of American women’s labor history
Pete Seeger and the Origins of "Union Maid"
Get PDFA commentary on a video interview with Pete Seeger [Video accessible on https://vimeo.com/118369128 . In the video “A Reflection on Woody Guthrie’s ‘Union Maid’: An Interview with Pete Seeger,” filmed in September 2013, ninety-four year old Pete Seeger recounts the story of how Woody Guthrie composed the song “Union Maid.” Seeger reflects on his friendship with Guthrie while also foregrounding the dialogic interplay in the making of folk music as he discusses the origins of the song, both lyrically and melodically. Through this narrative told through his eyes, Seeger shows how songs materialize out of moments and experiences through the push and pull of human relationships. For Seeger, the social and historical context surrounding the song is just as important as the individual moment of its creation, which gives us insight not just into the song’s history but also into Seeger’s own perspective on the creative process: it is not about the individual imposing a will on the world, but it is about the artist listening to the people
Testing receptive knowledge of derivational affixes
Get PDFDerivational affixes create variations of meaning within word families, so learner knowledge of how derivations transform meaning can boost comprehension. This paper looks at second language (L2) learners’ receptive knowledge of unknown members of word families in order to better understand how learners encounter new forms of words with derivational affixes. Overall, the participants were able to move within word families at a receptive level but often had difficulty with non-target, sentential syntax of the British National Corpus examples. It was also found that words-per-minute was a predictor of the participants’ ability to move within word families. Finally, participants were challenged when moving from one derivational affixed target to another
The role of the first language in meaning-focused and form-focused second language learning
Get PDFSome second language teachers feel guilty when they let students use their first language (L1) in classrooms; other teachers may acknowledge that allowing students to use the L1 may be beneficial to L2 learning, but they are unclear how beneficial it is. The present article is an attempt to clarify how L1 use may facilitate L2 learning from a sociocultural perspective. It discusses the role of the L1 in L2 teaching in relation to meaning-focused and form-focused tasks. In both types of tasks, L1 use is found to function as an effective medium for learners to provide scaffolded help in managing, completing tasks and facilitating interpersonal relationships. It is also found to be a useful tool for learners to regulate their thinking in cognitively demanding tasks. It is suggested that L2 teachers should try to explore how to make use of L1 in L2 learning instead of prohibiting L1 use by all means
An Integrated Coaching Model for the Student and Graduate Entrepreneurial Learning Environment
Get PDFThis empirical research project was undertaken following a period of study on a Post Graduate Certificate in Education ‘Coaching for Organisational Performance’ at the University of Central Lancashire. The purpose was to establish the most appropriate and effective combination of coaching and mentoring for use with student and graduate nascent entrepreneurs at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan). Firstly, a literature review was undertaken to identify whether there is a common understanding of key differences between coaching and mentoring and how they are used by entrepreneurial support organisations. Secondly, written records including scripts, reflections and mind maps from a sample of individual coaching/mentoring sessions with students and graduates were reviewed. Thirdly, the development of diagrams and visual models aided a combination of intensive problem solving and reflection on research findings, previous mentoring and coaching experience with student nascent entrepreneurs. The main outcomes included generation of a number of innovative ideas for extra-curricular enterprise programme development and an Integrated Coaching Model for the UCLan student and graduate entrepreneurial learning environment. A proposal for integration of the model into entrepreneurial teaching and learning activities and a shift of emphasis from a content-driven to a more process-driven programme was prepared
Introduction
Get PDFWelcome to the launch issue of the Woody Guthrie Annual, an open-access, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to scholarship on Woody Guthrie and his world. Guthrie’s most famous song, “This Land is Your Land,” features a second verse that begins: “As I went walking that ribbon of highway / And saw above me that endless skyway ….” The “ribbon of highway” — the image of a two-lane asphalt road meandering off into the horizon, pointing to adventure and a new future— is a point of entry into Guthrie’s uniquely peripatetic approach to life, his inquiring mind and wandering ways, the hard-traveling, cross-country, hitch-hiking, train-hopping jaunts that provided material for his writings and songs, the unsettledness of his personal life, and the absence of a stable home or home-life during much of his professional career. Carrying Guthrie from Okemah, Oklahoma to Pampa, Texas, and then on to Los Angeles, Oregon, New York, Coney Island, and, eventually, to Creedmoor State Hospital in Queens, the “ribbon of highway” provides a shifting setting for his experiences, just as it provides a metaphor for the scholarship that has emerged and has yet to emerge, leading to … who knows where
Memorializing "Deportees": Conversations with Tim Hernandez and Lance Canales
Get PDFOver sixty years following the 1948 plane crash that had inspired Woody Guthrie’s “Deportees,” a poem subsequently set to music by Martin Hoffman, poet and novelist Tim Z. Hernandez began to locate the real names of the deceased passengers, and worked with the families of the “deportees” to design a memorial headstone. On Labor Day 2013, the headstone was unveiled. At the ceremony, California musician Lance Canales and his band, the Flood, played a new version of Guthrie and Hoffman’s song. Canales describes re-writing the song within an entirely new set of musical conventions, from his own subject-position as the grandson of a migrant farmworker, imagining that he was descended from someone killed in the crash. This essay investigates Guthrie’s composition of “Deportees (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)”, Martin Hoffman’s musical arrangement, Hernandez’s research, and Canales’s re-writing of the song, positioning the song in relation to the history — and present reality — that it has narrated for over sixty year
Hate-baiting: The radical right and ‘fifth column discourse’ in European and American democracies today
Get PDFModern politics relies enormously upon shaping ‘the message’ toward targeted constituencies. Whether it’s Labour’s ‘Controls on Immigration’ or the Tories’ ‘blue-collar cabinet’ on either side of the recent 2015 General Election in Britain, reaching beyond a core ‘base’ of activists is now widely recognised as a key ingredient to political success. Whilst being ‘on message’ can be seen to be problematic for all political movements and organisations, it has special challenges for radical right movements. This short article presents a survey of some of the issues at play in terms of the post-war radical right, before focussing on two ‘doublespeak’ tactics – namely ‘metonymy’ and ‘inversion’ – as they are exemplified in the LaRouche organisation, deriving its name from the American political activist Lyndon LaRouche. There are a number of aspects are touched upon in this context, although discussion will be largely placed upon ‘coded’ anti-Semitic rhetoric since 1945, as well as postwar denial of the Holocaust. This overview argues, above all, that the variegated forces of ethno-nationalism have found novel and innovative ways to adapt in, and to, the 21st century. Indeed, the modes of expression employed in the process of re-framing radical right politics – often leading to the development of public messages that differ markedly to ‘backstage’ ideas – is an increasingly important area for scholarly enquiry
New crimes – new tactics: the emergence and effectiveness of disruption in tackling serious organised crime.
Get PDFWhilst the encouragement to use disruption techniques in tackling organised crime, has emerged in government and law enforcement rhetoric, little is known about its implementation. This study examines how two UK police forces used a disruption approach to target 100 organised crime suspects. The findings show that a disruption approach offers a more dynamic and flexible approach when compared with traditional prosecution, and is popular with practitioners. However, further research is needed to understand the most effective method of delivery and the level of impact this approach can bring