Forbidden sounds : exploring the silences of music history

15th November 1944. Terrain study, copy no. 14

Woody Guthrie and the Blues

Most writing on Woody Guthrie focuses on his songwriting, his life, or his politics, but there is little focus on his musicianship or his knowledge of musical history. Guthrie’s relationship to the blues tradition is central to his work — as evidenced in his guitar, mandolin, and harmonica playing as well as his knowledge of blues history and his associations with Sonny Terry, Lead Belly, Josh White, the Golden Gate Quartet and others. Guthrie’s engagement with the blues is a crucial aspect of his broader relationship to racial issues

Bi-Musical Moves In Luis Humberto Crosthwaite and Little Joe Hernández

Meditating on works of fiction such as Crosthwaite’s El gran preténder (1992) and Laviera’s AmeRican (1985), this article proposes bi-musicality (Hood 1960) as both a link between sociolinguistics and literary aesthetics and as a corrective challenge to the positivism of ethnic, demographic, and geographic labeling. From Dell Hymes to Norma Mendoza-Denton in applied linguistics and from Friedrich Schiller to Emmanuel Levinas in aesthetics, Sommer and Wald consider what they call the “pride of interstitial place” in multilingual, crossborder writing and music. The article takes cues from sociolinguistics, dance, and musicology, as it advances a wager about the embodied movements of multilingual poetics.Romance Languages and Literature