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Woody Guthrie once said, “I hate a song that makes you think you are not any good. I hate a song that makes you think that you are just born to lose. Bound to lose. No good to nobody. No good for nothing.” When he said this in the 1940s, what kinds of songs would he have been talking about?

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Joan Baez was a progressive folk singer who was part of the civil rights movement and fought for racial equality. Why did she regularly perform the confederate sympathizer song “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down”?

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How did wage-based mass employment (say, at factories) come to be?

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Why did it take novels / prose writing so long to catch on in the western world, as opposed to more constructed forms like verse, drama, etc.?

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Woody Guthrie once said, “I hate a song that makes you think you are not any good. I hate a song that makes you think that you are just born to lose. Bound to lose. No good to nobody. No good for nothing.” When he said this in the 1940s, what kinds of songs would he have been talking about?	1249	AskHistorians
Joan Baez was a progressive folk singer who was part of the civil rights movement and fought for racial equality. Why did she regularly perform the confederate sympathizer song “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down”?	501	AskHistorians
How did wage-based mass employment (say, at factories) come to be?	1	AskHistorians
Why did it take novels / prose writing so long to catch on in the western world, as opposed to more constructed forms like verse, drama, etc.?	1	AskHistorians