DISCUSSION PROMPTS
for Chapter 17:
· In this chapter you
see the communal aspects of life on the road
developed to a fine art. Discuss the rights,
laws, and punishments of roadside camp communities.
· What is the function of music in the roadside
communities?
Related web sites:
Authentic songs sung by migrants. Follow this link to hear dozens of MP3 files
of migrant workers singing the folk songs
they brought west to California in the late
1930s. All part of the Library of Congress'
Voices of the Dustbowl collection.
This Land Is Your Land: Rural Music and the
Depression - This site by the the University of Virginia,
explores the legacy of such famous
"Hillbilly"
and "country and Western
musical pioneers
such as Woody Guthrie, The Carter
Family,
Bill Monroe, Roy Acuff and John
Lomax in
an informative site.
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America from the Great Depression to WWII
Photographs from the FSA-OWL, 1935-1945
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