Will Kaufman is Professor of American Literature and Culture at the University of Central Lancashire, England, and author of American Culture in the 1970s; Woody Guthrie, American Radical; and Woody Guthrie's Modern World Blues.
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"Mapping Woody's travels as a way of revealing the impact of time and place on his work is a journey few are qualified to undertake. The reader is in good hands as Will Kaufman guides us along Woody's road and his path across the seas to explore the places and spaces that inspired America's greatest balladeer."--Deana McCloud, Executive Director, Woody Guthrie Center "The work gives new insight into the many varied areas of the nation and the globe that impacted Guthrie's music. Kaufman's perspective creates a valuable way to organize Guthrie's catalog and, moreover, provides new insight into the interactions between songwriting and place to reveal how artists translate the meaning of locations into music. "-- Chronicles of Oklahoma "We always knew Woody was a 'travelin' man, ' but Will Kaufman shows us so much more. Movement across space and through time enriched Guthrie by providing him--and by extension, us--the multiple vantage points through which to view and understand America at mid-twentieth century. Our preeminent Woody Guthrie scholar delivers yet again."--Brian Hosmer, H. G. Barnard Chair of Western American History, University of Tulsa