A Race of Singers: Whitman's Working-Class Hero from Guthrie to Springsteen by Bryan K. Garman

A Race of Singers: Whitman's Working-Class Hero from Guthrie to Springsteen

Bryan K. Garman

338 pages • first pub 2000 (editions)

history music challenging reflective medium-paced
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When Walt Whitman published Leaves of Grass in 1855, he dreamed of inspiring a race of singers who would celebrate the working class and realize the promise of American democracy. By examining how singers such as Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, and Bruc...

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