Blog Assignment two

In this blog, the broadside ballad of "This land is your Land" by Woody Guthrie is what will be looked at to find what the ballad is about, and who are the listeners suppose to be. Broadside Ballads are songs which spark feelings in people about something political that needs to be changed. In this ballad by Woody Guthrie, I feel that he is speaking about the inequalities that people have between each other. When he talks about the trespassing sign to keep people out I feel this is what he is referring too. Broadside Ballads spark emotioms and help to sometimes cause poltical change by getting people aware of what is going on.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaI5IRuS2aE This is the link for "This Land is Your Land" by Woody Guthrie. Some facts about Woody Guthrie can be found here: http://www.woodyguthrie.org/biography/biography1.htm. Some quick facts about Guthrie are that he was born July 14th, 1912. His full name is Woodrow Wilson Guthrie. He was married three times. He was also born in Oklahome around the time of the Dust bowl and the Great Depression, so he left Oklahoma and travelled to California. Many of his songs were about the hatred for people like Guthrie and why they were treated badly when they got to California. He also wrote songs about being against Facism after WWII. This song addresses the problem of unequality about how people arent equal. Some people have alot and fence it in and others have nothing and are kept out by those fences.

This song is a very iconic tune that everyone knows. I never knew it was a broadside ballad, but after listening to it you can see the message that it conveys. This ballad can even be relevent today such as how people in the United States take advantage of what they have especially when there are people less fortunate and dont have anything. This song really could open peoples eyes because it could be written today and people would still listen to it.