Woody Guthrie and Sherman Alexie Narrate the Columbia
In this Google Earth tour Mark Auslander narrates a shortened version of his photo essay, Woody Guthrie and Sherman Alexie Narrate the Columbia.
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RECOMMENDED RESOURCES:
1. Woodie Guthrie's Fertile Month on the Columbia River (NPR)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11918998
2. Documentary: Woody Guthrie and the Bonnevile Power Administration (U of Oregon Media)
http://media.uoregon.edu/channel/2007/04/07/roll-on-columbia-woody-guthrie-the-bonneville-power-administration/
TOUR CREDITS:
Script and Narration: Mark Auslander
Design and Technology: Marco Thompson
FOR FURTHER READING:
John Gold. Roll On Columbia: Woody Guthrie, Migrants' Tales, and Regional Transformation in the Pacific Northwest. Journal of Cultural Geography Volume 18, Issue 1, 1998
Mark Pedelty. Woody Guthrie and the Columbia River: Propaganda, Art, and Irony. Popular Music and Society Volume 31, Issue 3, 2008
Nancy J. Peterson “If I were Jewish, how would I mourn the dead?”:
Holocaust and Genocide in the Work of Sherman Alexie. MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S. Volume 35, Number 3, Fall 2010