Podcast appearances and mentions of will kaufman

Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War", according to Will Kaufman. Stowe, a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Seminary and an active abolitionist, featured the character of Uncle Tom, a long-suffering black slave around whom the stories of other characters revolve. The sentimental novel depicts the reality of slavery while also asserting that Christian love can overcome something as destructive as enslavement of fellow human beings. Uncle Tom's Cabin was the best-selling novel of the 19th century and the second best-selling book of that century, following the Bible. It is credited with helping fuel the abolitionist cause in the 1850s. In the first year after it was published, 300,000 copies of the book were sold in the United States; one million copies in Great Britain. In 1855, three years after it was published, it was called "the most popular novel of our day." The impact attributed to the book is great, reinforced by a story that when Abraham Lincoln met Stowe at the start of the Civil War, Lincoln declared, "So this is the little lady who started this great war." The quote is apocryphal; it did not appear in print until 1896, and it has been argued that "The long-term durability of Lincoln's greeting as an anecdote in literary studies and Stowe scholarship can perhaps be explained in part by the desire among many contemporary intellectuals ... to affirm the role of literature as an agent of social change."

What does NAIDOC mean in 2020? When are comedians “just kidding” and when are they telling the truth? Will Kaufman discusses how some of America's greatest satirists use irony, social criticism, and humour as both a weapon and a shield.

Will Kaufman surveys and reviews the work and humour of some of the great American satirists including; Benjamin Franklin, Mark Twain, Lenny Bruce and Tom Lehrer. MUSIC DETAILS; Randy Rainbow "HowWillYouVote"?

What does NAIDOC mean in 2020? When are comedians “just kidding” and when are they telling the truth? Will Kaufman discusses how some of America's greatest satirists use irony, social criticism, and humour as both a weapon and a shield.

Today, we begin our deep dive into Bob Dylan. First in a four episode series.Sean Wilentz, Bob Dylan in America, New York: Doubleday, 2010.Dorian Lynskey, 33 Revolutions Per Minute: A History of Protest Songs, From Billie Holiday to Green Day, New York: HarperCollins, 2011.Will Kaufman, Woody Guthrie: American Radical, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2011.Robert Shelton, No Direction Home: The Life and Music of Bob Dylan, New York: William Morrow, 1986.Michael Schumaker, There But For Fortune: The Life of Phil Ochs, New York: Hyperion, 1996.Anthony Scaduto, Dylan: An Intimate Biography, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1971.Ronald D. Cohen, Rainbow Quest: The Folk Music Revival & American Society 1940-1970, Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2002.

I spend the hour with musician, professor and author, Will Kaufman, who has written three books on the life and times of Woody Guthrie, along with many other books and articles. 

Doug weighs in on comedy specials, getting ejected from the New York shows and remembers his past guests who have died. Included at the end of this podcast is a never aired episode from 2016 with Uncle Bill and Floyd. Recorded July 21st, 2018 & May 27, 2016 in the FunHouse in Bisbee, AZ with Doug Stanhope (@DougStanhope), Uncle Bill, Floyd (@ArizonaLizards), Chad Shank (@HDFatty), and Ggreg Chaille (@gregchaille). Produced and Edited by Chaille. Get on the Mailing List at [www.dougstanhope.com](www.dougstanhope.com).  This episode is sponsored by Bingo's book - “Let Me Out: a madhouse diary” NOW AVAILABLE on AUDIBLE.com - [https://amzn.to/2mItJzn](https://amzn.to/2mItJzn) LINKS: STANHOPE MERCH - NEW! Chad Shank T-Shirts, “Popov Vodka Presents” VHS Tapes and the NEW KILLER TERMITES T-Shirt now available at [http://www.DougStanhope.com/store](http://www.DougStanhope.com/store) “The Comedian As Confidence Man: A Study In Irony Fatigue” by Will Kaufman - [https://amzn.to/2NI7lBr](https://amzn.to/2NI7lBr) Chad Shank Voice Over info at [http://www.AudioShank.com](http://www.AudioShank.com) Support the Innocence Project - [http://www.innocenceproject.org](http://www.innocenceproject.org) Clip from Doug's July 15, 2018 Sony Hall New York show sent to me from the an audience member.

Woody Guthrie, a talented singer, songwriter and poet, was fearless in expression of his beliefs and spoke up to authority whenever he felt an injustice being committed. When Guthrie recorded "This Land is Your Land," his lyrics posed an important question: In a land of plenty made for all of us, why are people so hungry?  Guthrie so disliked his New York landlord, Fred Trump (Donald Trump's father), that Guthrie wrote a song about Donald's father, Fred, in the early 1950s because Guthrie thought that Trumps' father was one who stirred racial hate and implicit profits from it.   Guthrie made it a point to include the lyrics about hungry, discounted people in “This Land is Your Land.” Our country, which is still admirable in so many ways, has had a long history of mistreating people in a way that comes across quiet and hidden, and repositioned in a way that makes it seem that we are “helping,” but helping is sometimes not the truth. And historically, this leads to one of our most mistreated groups, on their own continent, Native Americans.   I like to think that when Woody Guthrie wrote his song, he was sensitive to the plight of Americans of all races, and was viewing the future of our nation from the middle edges, where the possibilities for positive change can still be seen though the thickening fog. Learn more at http://woodyguthriecenter.org Martin Luther King, Jr., United Nations Human Rights Council, Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, Fort Laramie Treaty, Buffalo Bill Cody, Sitting Bull, Christopher Columbus, Gretchen Goetz, Justin William Moyer, Washington Post, The New York Times, Will Kaufman, Thomas Kaplan, Ted Wells

"Woody Guthrie, American Radical (Music in American Life)" -- author Will Kaufman discusses his book and plays songs by woody Guthrie.

"Woody Guthrie, American Radical (Music in American Life)" -- author Will Kaufman discusses his book and plays songs by woody Guthrie.