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Music to read "Grown-Up Anger" with

An hour of music exploring how Woody Guthrie became Woody Guthrie. A playlist to go with "Grown-up Anger." http://bit.ly/2o2ISNI

Early Woody (from "Grown-up Anger: Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, and the Calumet Massacre of 1913"), a playlist by Daniel Wolff on Spotify

https://open.spotify.com/user/1261687...

Grown-Up Anger: The Connected Mysteries of Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, and the Calumet Massacre of 1913

PASTE magazine on "Grown-Up Anger"

Stephen Nathans-Kelly on "Grown-up Anger" with a play list he created that ranges from Dylan to Guthrie to the deep past.
https://www.pastemagazine.com/article...

Werner on Grown-up Anger

Grown-Up Anger: The Connected Mysteries of Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, and the Calumet Massacre of 1913

Whether you came to Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie in 1965 or 2016, Grown-Up Anger will change the way you hear "This Land Is Your Land" and "Like a Rolling Stone." Beginning with the 1913 Calumet Massacre, Daniel Wolff provides a primer on the complicated history of anger, political and personal in American music, one that's never been more needed than it is today. There aren't many cultural histories that read like they've been written for activists and fans. Grown-Up Anger moves to the head of that list. --Craig Werner, Evjue-Bascom Professor of Afro-American Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, author of “A Change Is Gonna Come.”

Coming June 13th : GROWN-UP ANGER: The Connected Mysteries of Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, and the Calumet Massacre of 1913. Pre-order at http://bit.ly/2o2ISNI

Tyson on "Grown-up Anger"

Grown-Up Anger starts with popular music, but by the time Daniel Wolff has finished it's evolved into a fierce, lyrical excavation of buried history. Too often, we talk about race and class, freedom and greed, in general terms. Using anger as a pickaxe, Wolff provides the details to the stories that make sense of where we are today -- and where we need to get to.

Grown-Up Anger: The Connected Mysteries of Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, and the Calumet Massacre of 1913-Timothy B. Tyson, author The Blood of Emmett Till

Patti Smith on "Grown-up Anger"

In Grown-Up Anger Daniel Wolff assembles an American triad to raise the ghosts of greed and misery. Through memory, music, and a clear insight into the emotional process of protest,
Wolff reminds us of how it did, and how it does, ultimately feel. -- Patti Smith, author/musician

Coming June 13th : GROWN-UP ANGER: The Connected Mysteries of Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, and the Calumet Massacre of 1913. Pre-order at http://bit.ly/2o2ISNI





Grown-Up Anger: The Connected Mysteries of Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, and the Calumet Massacre of 1913

Dave Marsh on "Grown-up Anger"

No matter how much you think you know about Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie, you're wrong. Who could imagine that there was still so much to discover about both of them, let alone each of them? This is the best sense anyone has ever made about the connection between them, and the best reappraisal either has had in a couple of decades. -- Dave Marsh, author “Born to Run” "The Beatles' Second Album,"and others.Grown-Up Anger: The Connected Mysteries of Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, and the Calumet Massacre of 1913

Marcus on Grown-up Anger

In this book—so soberly inflamed that the pages seem to turn of their own accord—the history of the American 20th century is made of lodestars that don’t figure in conventional accounts: a mass death in the middle of a strike in 1913, a few songs from thirty, fifty years after, the way of life implied by their competing tales. A story begins, leaves marks on the country, then fades out. The will toward justice is the motor of Wolff’s history; its road is blocked, diverted, blown up, renamed, until one might find justice far more readily in a song than in life, and it may be that this book could not appear at a less receptive time. It is at precisely at this moment that its story will be most fully heard.
-- Greil Marcus, author “Mystery Train,” "The Old Weird America," "Three Songs, Three Singers, Three Nations."
Grown-Up Anger: The Connected Mysteries of Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, and the Calumet Massacre of 1913 Coming June 13

Labor and Grown-up Anger

Grown-up Anger is an exciting romp through labor union history through the lens of American music. Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie’s protest and solidarity songs represent the disaffection of those marginalized by industrialization, war and later, globalization. If you’re not sure why we need unions, and why they’re still important, consider Daniel Wolff’s Grown-Up Anger a must read. --

Karen Lewis,Grown-Up Anger: The Connected Mysteries of Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, and the Calumet Massacre of 1913 president of the Chicago Teachers Union, local 1 of the American Federation of Teachers

Grown-up Anger

"The path leading from Woody Guthrie to Bob Dylan has been well traveled, but Daniel Wolff has gone off-road and forged bold new connections between the two cultural titans. He does this by venturing deep into the past, back to the tragic deaths of mine workers and their families in the Calumet Massacre of 1913. The result is an imaginative tour de force that sheds new light on Guthrie, Dylan and the heartbreaking history that created them both."
- Anthony DeCurtis, Contributing Editor, Rolling Stone

Grown-Up Anger: The Connected Mysteries of Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, and the Calumet Massacre of 1913

Grown-up Anger

GROWN-UP ANGER [STARRED REVIEW!]
The Connected Mysteries of Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, and the Calumet Massacre of 1913
Author: Daniel Wolff

Publication Date: June 13, 2017
ISBN ( Hardcover ): 978-0-06-245169-9

Grown-Up Anger: The Connected Mysteries of Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, and the Calumet Massacre of 1913Grown-Up Anger: The Connected Mysteries of Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, and the Calumet Massacre of 1913Grown-Up Anger: The Connected Mysteries of Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, and the Calumet Massacre of 1913Grown-Up Anger: The Connected Mysteries of Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, and the Calumet Massacre of 1913A masterful tale of music, social, and economic history.In 1965, when poet and essayist Wolff (The Names of Birds, 2015, etc.) was 13, he first heard Bob Dylan's "sound of anger" on the radio. "Like a Rolling Stone" impressed him mightily. He sought out his earlier albums, and on Dylan's first, there were two original songs. One was "Song to Woody," which was "the sound of someone looking back in order to tell the truth." This led the author find out more about Woody Guthrie and to hear his music. He discovered a great singer/songwriter and political activist. That search then led him to Arlo Guthrie and his album, "Hobo's Lullaby," which included one of his father's songs, "1913 Massacre." In Calumet, Michigan, mostly striking mine workers, their wives, and children were having a crowded Christmas party in a large hall when someone falsely yelled "Fire!" In the desperate crush to escape, 73 people died. Listening to the song, Wolff realized Dylan had used the very same melody for his song about Guthrie. The pieces were falling into place: "Follow that darkish vein back to find…what? The history of anger. Hope. The truth." The author takes us on a stunning, riveting journey as we learn about the young Dylan, Woody, Joe Hill, the famous singer/songwriter and union leader, the small town of Calumet, with its copper-mining operations in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, and the unions and miners who were constantly taken advantage of by management and the mine owners. Along the way, Wolff introduces us to Woody's fellow activist musician Pete Seeger and noted song collector Alan Lomax. He also tells the story of union organizer Ella Reeve "Mother" Bloor, who first told Woody the Calumet story, and Alexander Agassiz, son of the famous scientist, who hired James MacNaughton as the union-busting manager of the Calumet mine in 1901. Wolff's elegantly intertwined historical drama is consistently revelatory. A dazzling, richly researched story impeccably told.