A Woody Guthrie Centennial Celebration
Saturday, September 22, 2012
Gold Room, Brooklyn College Student Center
Conference Free to Public
A Woody Guthrie Centennial Celebration is produced by the H. Wiley Hitchcock Institute for Studies in American Music at Brooklyn College in conjunction with the GRAMMY Museum, Woody Guthrie Publications, Inc., The Woody Guthrie Foundation and The Richmond Organization-TRO.
Funding made possible by the New York Council for the Humanities; the Office of the President; the Office of the Dean of Visual, Media and Performing Arts at Brooklyn College; the Wolfe Institute for the Humanities at Brooklyn College; the Cerf Foundation; and the Conservatory of Music, Brooklyn College.
10 a.m.
Registration
10:30 a.m.
Welcome, Karen L. Gould, President, Brooklyn College
10:45 a.m.
Nora Guthrie, "My Name Is New York: Ramblin' Around Woody Guthrie's Town"
11:30 a.m.
- Panel 1: Woody in New York: The Politics of the Culture Front and the Cold War
- Michael Denning, "Talking Cultural Front Blues"
- Elijah Wald, "Woody and the Blues: Leadbelly, Josh White and the Cultural Politics of Race"
- Dave Marsh, "The Price of Authenticity: Politics and Purism in Guthrie's Folk Music"
- Ray Allen (Chair)
12:45 p.m.
Lunch and Book Signings
2 p.m.
Keynote, Sean Wilentz, "A Tale of Two New Yorks: Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan Hit Manhattan"
2:45 p.m.
Panel 2: Woody the Radical Songster
- Will Kaufman, "Woody Guthrie: From Tin Pan Alley to Occupy Wall Street"
- Robbie and Ernie Lieberman, "Don't You Push Me Down: People's Songs and People's Artists Sing Out in the Early Cold War Years"
- Jorge Arévalo Mateus, "Si nos Queremos Juntos, Vamos a Ganar, Si!: Woody Guthrie's Global Radicalismo in the Latin/o World"
- Ronald Cohen (Chair)
4 p.m.
Artist Roundtable
- Billy Bragg
- Judy Collins
- Lorin Sklamberg
- Robert Santelli, moderator
5 p.m.
Reception and Book Signing
7:30 p.m.
This Land Is Your Land Concert
With Pete Seeger, Judy Collins, Steve Earle, Billy Bragg, John Cohen and the Dust Busters, Mike & Ruthie and the Unger Family, The Tony Trishka Band and The Klezmatics. (For concert ticket information please visit www.woody100.com.)
