Program

Research Programs: Summer Stipends

Period of Performance

6/1/1974 - 8/31/1974

Funding Totals

$2,000.00 (approved)
$2,000.00 (awarded)


The Art of Wood Guthrie

FAIN: FT-12168-74

Gilbert L. Schechtman
City Colleges of Chicago, Olive-Harvey College (Chicago, IL 60628-1645)

To collect, date, and classify the songs composed by the American balladeer, Woody Guthrie. Guthrie's songs, most of them topical, were composed during the Depression and the early forties. These songs reflect the important political and social conflicts of the period as they present themselves to the ordinary citizen.