On Tuesday, July 14th, at Jacob Burns Film Center in Pleasantville, New York about a hundred ticket holders found residence in Peter Frumkin's biographical documentary on Woody Guthrie called “Ain't Got No Home." Opening the evening, which included a discussion from Mr. Frumkin and Guthrie's daughter Nora, Jacob Burn's program director, Brain Ackerman described the initiative of this forefather of American popular song.
“He didn't just read the headlines, he found the battle lines of where things were happening and then went out and did something about it," he said. The film opened on a similar note with insight to the song that his name will always be synonymous with - This Land is Your Land.
They lyrics were written as a left wing response to “God Bless America," a song that Guthrie loathed. He felt dustbowls, injustice and depressions were not in God's hands but in the control of ordinary Americans to change. Hence the words, “This land is your land, this land is my land."
“He didn't just read the headlines, he found the battle lines of where things were happening and then went out and did something about it," he said. The film opened on a similar note with insight to the song that his name will always be synonymous with - This Land is Your Land.
They lyrics were written as a left wing response to “God Bless America," a song that Guthrie loathed. He felt dustbowls, injustice and depressions were not in God's hands but in the control of ordinary Americans to change. Hence the words, “This land is your land, this land is my land."
