Ebook: Grown-up anger: the connected mysteries of Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, and the Calumet massacre of 1913
Author: Dylan Bob, Guthrie Woody, Wolff Daniel J
- Tags: Folk music--Political aspects--United States--History--20th century, Italian Hall Disaster Calumet Mich. 1913, Popular music--Political aspects, Popular music--Political aspects--United States--History--20th century, History, Dylan Bob -- 1941-, Guthrie Woody -- 1912-1967, Popular music -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century, Folk music -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century, Popular music -- Political aspects, Michigan -- Calumet, United States
- Year: 2017
- Publisher: HarperCollins
- City: Michigan;Calumet;United States
- Edition: First edition
- Language: English
- epub
A tour de force of storytelling years in the making: a dual biography of two of the greatest songwriters, Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie, that is also a murder mystery and a history of labor relations and socialism, big business and greed in twentieth-century America—woven together in one epic saga that holds meaning for all working Americans today.
When thirteen-year-old Daniel Wolff first heard Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone," it ignited a life-long interest in understanding the rock poet's anger. When he later discovered "Song to Woody," Dylan's tribute to his hero, Woody Guthrie, Wolff believed he'd uncovered one source of Dylan's rage. Sifting through Guthrie's recordings, Wolff found "1913 Massacre"—a song which told the story of a union Christmas party during a strike in Calumet, Michigan, in 1913 that ended in horrific tragedy.
Following the trail from Dylan to Guthrie to an event that claimed the lives of seventy-four men, women, and children a...