Author Question: What was the long-term significance of Woody Guthrie's songs? a. Progressive Republicans used ... (Read 95 times)

lilldybug07 · **on:** Jul 4, 2018

What was the long-term significance of Woody Guthrie's songs?

a. Progressive Republicans used them as theme songs during their election campaigns, the first instance of using popular songs in political campaigns.
b. They represented the experiences of poor farm laborers, and exemplify the first time that poor workers had songs speak about their lives.
c. Their popularity resulted in a campaign to force the federal government to build migrant labor camps.
d. They changed the nature of folk ballads into social protest songs and served as the forerunner of much of the later social protest music.

Question 2

All of the following writers became famous during the Gold Rush period except

a. Samuel Clemens.
b. Bret Harte.
c. Ina Coolbrith.
d. Richard Henry Dana.