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| − | On the Dirty Plate Trail : Remembering the Dust Bowl Refugee Camps / texts by Sanora Babb ; photographs by Dorothy Babb. Austin : University of Texas Press, | + | ''On the Dirty Plate Trail : Remembering the Dust Bowl Refugee Camps'' / texts by Sanora Babb ; photographs by Dorothy Babb. Austin : University of Texas Press, |
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[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU9tKdr3g20 Guthrie's of "Dust Bowls Blues"] | [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU9tKdr3g20 Guthrie's of "Dust Bowls Blues"] | ||
| − | [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS7mBEXaMNQ&feature=related "This Land is Your Land"] with Dorthea Lange | + | [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS7mBEXaMNQ&feature=related "This Land is Your Land"] with [http://content.cdlib.org/view?docId=ft3f59n5wt&chunk.id=omca_724&brand=oac Dorthea Lange] images. |
| − | [http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/107356/review/5940604/dustbowlballads ''Rolling Stone''] review of Guthrie with links to samples. Guthrie inspired Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen. | + | [http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/107356/review/5940604/dustbowlballads ''Rolling Stone''] review of Guthrie with links to samples. Guthrie inspired [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dylan Bob Dylan] a [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/bobdylan/biography (shorter bio)] and Bruce Springsteen. The legacy leading from from Whitman to The Boss [http://www.amazon.com/Race-Singers-Whitmans-Working-Class-Springsteen/dp/0807848662 explored in a book]. See also Garman, Bryan. "The Ghost of History Bruce Springsteen, Woody Guthrie, and the Hurt Song." ''Popular Music and Society'' 20.2 (1996): 69-120. [http://search.ebscohost.com.oca.ucsc.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=9712193721&site=ehost-live Campus access on article online] |
Bruce Springsteen "Ghost of Tom Joad" [http://www.brucespringsteen.net/songs/TheGhostOfTomJoad.html Lyrics]. [http://www.sonymusic.com/clips/selection/30/BruceSpringsteen/TheGhostOfTomJoad_56.asx Sample] | Bruce Springsteen "Ghost of Tom Joad" [http://www.brucespringsteen.net/songs/TheGhostOfTomJoad.html Lyrics]. [http://www.sonymusic.com/clips/selection/30/BruceSpringsteen/TheGhostOfTomJoad_56.asx Sample] | ||
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Books
Dust Bowl : The Southern Plains in the 1930s by Donald Worster. New York : Oxford University Press, 1979. McHenry Stacks F786.W87
Dust Bowl Diary by Ann Marie Low. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c1984. McH Stacks F636.L92 1984 Farming the Dust Bowl : a First-Hand Account from Kansas by Lawrence Svobida Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, 1986, c1940. Science & Engineering Library Stacks S623.S87 1986. 255 p. Originally published as An Empire of Dust, 1940.
Empire of Dust : Settling and Abandoning the Prairie Dry Belt / David C. Jones. Edmonton : University of Alberta Press, 1987. McH Stacks F1079.5.A43J66 1987
Dust Bowl, USA : Depression America and the Ecological Imagination, 1929-1941 / Brad D. Lookingbill. Athens : Ohio University Press, c2001 McH Stacks F595 .L66 2001
Letters from the Dust Bowl / by Caroline Henderson ; edited by Alvin O. Turner. Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c2001 McH Stacks F702.N6 H46 2001
Children of the Dust Bowl : the true story of the school at Weedpatch Camp by Jerry Stanley ; illustrated with photographs. New York : Crown, c1992 Child Curric LC5152.C2S73 1992. Describes the plight of the migrant workers who traveled from the Dust Bowl to California during the Depression and were forced to live in a federal labor camp and discusses the school that was built for their children.
California and the Dust Bowl Migration by Walter J. Stein. Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press [1973] McH Stacks HD1527.C2S76 1973
American Exodus : the Dust Bowl Migration and & Okie Culture in California / James N. Gregory. New York : Oxford University Press, 1989. McH Stacks HB1985.C2G74 1989
The Worst Hard Time : The Untold Story of those who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl / Timothy Egan Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2006 McH Stacks F595 .E38 2006
Video
Surviving the Dust Bowl / PBS The American Experience ; McHenry Library Media Center VT5782 1 videocassette (57 min.)
The Grapes of Wrath / Twentieth Century-Fox presents Darryl F. Zanuck's production c2007 Media Center DVD5838
Our Daily Bread and other films of the Great Depression / Film Preservation Associate c1999 McHenry Media Center DVD1410 Originally released as a motion picture made in 1934, and other short films produced in the 1930s.
Summary: Our Daily Bread (King Vidor 1934) is a depression-era drama in which a young couple leads a group of unemployed people in making a communal farm succeed. Includes a prologue to the movie by King Vidor. -- The fake newsreels "California Election News #1 and #2 (1934), were secretly produced by MGM as "dirty tricks" in the film industry's political war against Upton Sinclair. -- The River (Pare Lorentz 1937) dramatizes the stripping of the Mississipi River basin and the effort to restore this region. -- The Plow that Broke the Plains (Pare Lorentz 1936) focuses on the ecological and human tragedy of the Dust Bowl. -- Power and the Land (Rural Electrification Administration), elevates the photogenic Parkinson family to iconic figures of Americana. -- The New Frontier is a government documentary Media Center VT3302
The plow that Broke the Plains [videorecording] : a U.S. documentary film ; The River : a U.S. documentary film / written and directed by Pare Lorentz Media Center DVD4803
America Comes of Age II Online
Images
On the Dirty Plate Trail : Remembering the Dust Bowl Refugee Camps / texts by Sanora Babb ; photographs by Dorothy Babb. Austin : University of Texas Press, McH Stacks HD5856.U5 B33 2007
Sound Recording/Music
Guthrie, Woody, 1912-1967. Dust bowl Ballads. [Sound recording] Folkways Records FH 5212. [1964] Media Center L812
Guthrie's of "Dust Bowls Blues"
"This Land is Your Land" with Dorthea Lange images.
Rolling Stone review of Guthrie with links to samples. Guthrie inspired Bob Dylan a (shorter bio) and Bruce Springsteen. The legacy leading from from Whitman to The Boss explored in a book. See also Garman, Bryan. "The Ghost of History Bruce Springsteen, Woody Guthrie, and the Hurt Song." Popular Music and Society 20.2 (1996): 69-120. Campus access on article online
