Member Profile Total number of comments: 1 (since 2017-02-07 04:03:22) Robbie Osman Showing comments 1 - 1Page: 1 "This Land:" The pro-Immigrant Radicalism of Lady Gaga and Guthrie at Half-Time Robbie Osman 02/06/2017 at 4:31 pm There's another reason Lady Gaga's decision to sing one of Woody's songs has special meaning at this moment. Woody wrote songs that were specifically anti-Trump. They were about Fred Trump, Donald Trump's father and Woody Guthrie's landlord. Here's a relevant article: https://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2016/01/25/woody-guthrie-sang-of-his-contempt-for-his-landlord-donald-trumps-father/?_r=0 Showing comments 1 - 1Page: 1 TweetShareRedditEmail
There's another reason Lady Gaga's decision to sing one of Woody's songs has special meaning at this moment. Woody wrote songs that were specifically anti-Trump. They were about Fred Trump, Donald Trump's father and Woody Guthrie's landlord.
Here's a relevant article:
https://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2016/01/25/woody-guthrie-sang-of-his-contempt-for-his-landlord-donald-trumps-father/?_r=0