Songs for Our Times

We asked Gus Stadler to recommend some Woody Guthrie songs. He did not fail us.

ALL YOU FASCISTS BOUND TO LOSE

THE JOLLY BANKER

THIS LAND IS OUR LAND (with private property verse)

BETTER WORLD A-COMIN’

Anna McCarthy

Anna McCarthy, professor of cinema studies at New York University, is the author of Ambient Television (2001) and The Citizen Machine (2010). She coedited the anthology MediaSpace (2004) and for eight years was a coeditor of Social Text. She is the journal’s current web editor. Her research at present concerns relations between broadcasting and theocracy in twentieth century Ireland.