This land is your land Woody Guthrie
Farmer-Labor Train Cindy 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 Fastest Of Ponies Cleano 1 Day, 2 Days, 3 Days Old Flood Disaster Cocaine Blues Along In The Sun And The Rain Foggy Mountain Top Colombus Stockade Arrival In Los Angeles Foy Chase (With Sonny Terry) Columbia’s Waters Bad Repetation Froggie Went A-Courtin’ Columbus Georgia Stockade Baltimore To Washington Gamblin’ Man Columbus Stockade Blues Beaumont Rag Get Along Little Doggies Come See Bed On The Floor Goin’ Down This Road Feelin’ Bad Cowboy Waltz Better World A-Comin’ Gonna Roll The Union On Crawdad Song Biggest Thing Man Has Ever Done Grassy-y, Grass, Grass (With Drum) Cumbeland Gap Bile Them Cabbage Down Greenback Dollar Curley Headed Baby Billy Boy (With Sonny Terry) Grow, Grow, Grow (With Drum) Dance Around Billy The Kid Guitar Blues Danville Girl Bling-Blang Guitar Breakdown Blowin’ Down This Road Feeling Bad Danville Girl No. 2 Guitar Rag Blowing Down That Old Dusty Road Dead Or Alive Deportee (Plane Wreck At Los Gatos) Gypsy Davy Boll Weevil Blues Handbill Situation; Labor “ContracDig My Life Away Boll Weevil Song tors” Dirty Overalls Brown Eyes Hang Knot Do-Ri-Mi Brown’s Ferry Blues Do You Ever Think Of Me? (aka At My Hangknot, Slipknot Bubble Gum Hanukkah Dance Window) Buffalo Gals Hard Ain’t It Hard Buffalo Skinners Bury Me Beneath The Don’t You Push Me Down Hard Times Dust Bowl Blues Willow Hard Travelling Dust Bowl Refugees Bury Me Beneath The Willows Harriet Tubman’s Ballad (part 1) Dust Can’t Kill Me California Blues Harriet Tubman’s Ballad (part 2) Dust Old Dust California - The Promised Land Hen Cackle Dust Peneumonia Blues Car-Car (Riding In My Car) Hey Little Water Boy Dust Storm Car Song Hey Lolly Lolly Chain Around My LegChain Gangs; Dust Storm Disaster His “Gang”; Home Brew; House ParDust Storms And Their Effects The Blues Dust Storms; Storm Of April 14, 1935 ties; Drinking Chain Gang Special Hitchhiking Children’s Songs: Little Sack Of Sug- Dusty Old Dust Hobo’s Lullaby End Of The Line ar / Ship In The Sky / Swim, Swim, House Of The Rising Sun Ezekiel Saw The Wheel Swimmy I Swim Howdido Family Misfortunes; Foster Parents; Chisholm Trail Howdjadoo Banty Hen; Galveston, Texas Church-House Blues
I Ain’t Got No Home I Ain’t Got Nobody I Just Want To Sing Your Name I’ll Eat You, I’ll Drink You I’ll Write And I’ll Draw I’m Blowing Down I’m Gonna Join That One Big Union (You Gotta Go Down And Join The Union) I Ride An Old Paint I Want My Milk (I Want It Now) I Want My Milk (With Guitar) Ida Red Introduction; Family; Okemah And It’s People; The Colored “Situation” Jackhammer Blues Jackhammer Man Blues Jarama Valley Jesse James Jiggy Jiggy Bum Bum Jimmie Rodgers; Living Conditions In California John Henry Johnny Hart Jolly Banker Keep My Skillet Good & Greesy (With Cisco Houston & Sonny Terry) Ladies Auxiliary Lindburgh Little Black Train Little Darling Pal Of Mine Little Sack Of Sugar (With Guitar) Little Sugar (Little Saka Sugar) Liza Jane Lonesome Day Lonesome Train (With Sonny Terry)
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The Biggest Thing That Man Has Sinking Of The Rueben James Picture From Life’s Other Side Ever Done Sleep Eye Pictures Of Plenty The Boll Weevil Sleepy Tight Pleasures Of Plenty The Car Song Slip Knot Poor Boy The Dodger Song Slipknot Pretty And Shiny-O The Drifters Snow Deer Put My Little Shoes The Dying Miner So Long (Dusty Old Dust) Put Your Finger In The Air The Flood And The Storm So Long It´s Been Good To Know Race You Down The Mountain The Grand Coulee Dam (Dust Old Dust) Railroad Blues The Grapes Of Wrath Railroad “Bulls”; Hoboin’ And Freight-So Long (It’s Been Good To Know The Great Dust Strom Yuh) trainin’; Government Camps The House Of The Rising Sun Song Of The Coulee Dam Raincrow Bill The Ludlow Massacre Sonny’s Flight Ramblin’ Blues The Sinking Of The Reuben James Sourwood Mountain Ramblin’ Round Your City There’s A Better World A-Comin’ Sowing On The Mountain Ramshackle There’s A Better World A-Coming Springfield Mountain Ranger’s Command Square Dance Medley (Cripple Creek, They Laid Jesus Christ In His Grave Rattle My Rattle This Land is Your Land Red River Blues (With Sonny Terry) Buffalo Gals, Old Joe Clark, Red Wing, Ida Red, Chilly Winds, Sandy This Train Is Bound For Glory Red River Valley Toasts; Square Dance Tunes Land) Red Wine Tom Joad-Part I Reputation Of Oklahoma; Will Rogers Stack-O-Lee (With Cisco Houston) Tom Joad-Part II Return Of Rocky Mountain Slim And Stackhole Train 45 Stagolee Desert Rat Shorty Train Blues Stepstone Ride Old Paint Train Breakdown Riding Around In My Car (Car Song) Struggle Blues Two Good Men Suassos Lane Roll Columbia, Roll Swim-y, Swim, Swim (With Guitar) Union Burying Ground Roll On Columbia Union Maid (Excerpt) Talking Columbia Blues Root Hog And Die Vanzetti’s Rock Talking Dust Bowl Blues Round And Round Hitler’s Grave Vigilant Man Talking Fishing Blues Rubaiyat Waiting At The Gate Talking Hard Luck Blues Rubber Dolly Wake Up Talking Hard Work Running For The Train Walking Down That Railroad Line Talking Sailor Rye Straw Walking The Railroad Ties Tear The Fascists Down Rye Whiskey Wash-y, Wash Wash (With Rattle) Tell Aunt Rhody Sacco’s Letter To Son Texas Oil Fields; The Root Beer Stand; We Are Welcome To Heaven Sally Don’t You Grieve We Shall Be Free Learning To Play The Guitar Sally Goodin
The reason for us to choose This Land is Your Land is that we like the meaning of the song and the way it was presented. The feeling and the meaning of the lyrics was presented in a very opposite way and it makes you think a lot about it. We also think that this is linked with the art work of Cornelia Parker as the meaning of her artwork were base on the material itself which is like the meaning of the lyrics, you need to read and think about it carefully.
“The world is filled with people who are no longer needed. And who try to make slaves of all of us.”
Woody Guthrie
Woody Guthrie Cornelia Parker
Woody Guthrie Woody Guthrie was an American single songwriter and folk musician born in 1912, whose has hundreds of political, traditional and children’s songs. His best known song is “This Land Is Your Land.” Many of his songs are about his experiences during Great Depression when he travelled with migrant workers from Oklahoma to California. “This Land Is Your Land” is one of the United States’ most famous folk songs. It was based on an existing melody, in critical response to Irving Berlin’s “God Bless America”. Guthrie varied the lyrics many times and sometimes include more overtly political verses in line with his sympathetic views of communise, than appear in recordings or publications.
Cornelia Parker Cornelia Parker is an English sculptor and installation artist born in 1956. Parker is best known for large scale installations such as Cold Dark Matter: An exploded View (1991), for which she had a garden shed blown up by the British Army and suspended the fragments as if suspending the explosion process in time. In the centre of it was a light which cast the shadows of the wood dramatically on the walls of the room. Cornelia Parker approaches the physical world as though it were an imperfect, life sized model of itself, an illustration of its own mutability. Often, she suspends objects from wires fixed to the ceiling. This is a familiar Parker ruse.
The Song Woody Guthrie recorded “This Land is Your Land” in 1944 during the Great Depression and war years. The song was priginally written in Febrary 1940, when Woody Guthrie first arrived in New York City from Oklahoma. The lyrics express Guthrie’s belief that the working class should have the same right as the rich. The song was sung at rallies, around campfires and in progressive schools. It was these populist lyrics hat had appealed to the political left in America.
This land is your land, this land is my land From the California to the Staten New York Island, From the Redwood Forest, to the Gulf stream waters, God blessed America for me. As I went walking that ribbon of highway And saw above me that endless skyway, And saw below me the golden valley, I said: God blessed America for me. I roamed and rambled and followed my footsteps To the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts, And all around me, a voice was sounding: God blessed America for me. Was a high wall there that tried to stop me A sign was painted said: Private Property, But on the back side it didn’t say nothing God blessed America for me.
Different version of the lyrics
Nobody living can ever stop me, As I go walking that freedom highway; Nobody living can ever make me turn back This land was made for you and me. In the squares of the city, In the shadow of a steeple; By the relief office, I’d seen my people. As they stood there hungry, I stood there As I went walking I saw a sign there And on the sign it said “No Trespassing.” asking, But on the other side it didn’t say nothing, Is this land made for you and me? That side was made for you and me.
This land is your land, this land is my land From California, to the New York Island From the redwood forest, to the gulf stream waters This land was made for you and me
The sun comes shining as I was strolling The wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rolling The fog was lifting a voice come chanting This land was made for you and me
As I was walking a ribbon of highway I saw above me an endless skyway I saw below me a golden valley This land was made for you and me
As I was walkin’ I saw a sign there And that sign said no tress passin’ But on the other side .... it didn’t say nothin! Now that side was made for you and me!
I’ve roamed and rambled and I’ve followed my footsteps To the sparkling sands of her diamond desert And all around me a voice was sounding This land was made for you and me
In the squares of the city In the shadow of the steeple Near the relief office I see my people And some are grumblin’ and some are wonderin’ If this land’s still made for you and me.
The lyrics were written on the model of “LAND”, but throughout the video, the whole model won’t be shown and the camera would go along the letters and show like a journey. We have this idea as we want to keep the audiences thinking what this is and may have a little crew at the beginning and between.
We planned to make the models with paper and then film it. Afterward, we will add the pictures and lyrics in computer. So at the beginning, we just planned the camera angle and where to go for the lyrics.
Focusing When we started to experiment our ideas we faced lots of problems regarding filming, particularly focusing. At the beginning we tried to film our models but we find out that was difficult to focus in a short distance and also keep the video camera stable. We couldn’t use a tripod because of the size of our models and the need to move the camera all the time, throught the video. So, we came to the conclusion that the best way to apply our idea is using stop motion. After we decided the method we had several experiments to find the best way to show our idea.
Lightening Another major problem we had was lighting. We decided that the best way to film our video was to use white paper around our models and spotlight on the top. What caused us the limitations was the movement needed in the whole video. That was one of the major reasons why we decide to to stop motion rather than filming. Filming the video was actually really hard because our shadow was continuously in the caption. Stop motion give us the advantage to move our models depended on the side we wanted to photograph so we avoid extra useless shadows.
This land is your land, this land is my land From California, to the New York Island From the redwood forest, to the gulf stream waters This land was made for you and me
As I was walking a ribbon of highway I saw above me an endless skyway I saw below me a golden valley This land was made for you and me I’ve roamed and rambled and I’ve followed my footsteps To the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts And all around me a voice was sounding
First Model
The sun comes shining as I was strolling The wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rolling The fog was lifting a voice come chanting This land was made for you and me As I was walkin’ I saw a sign there And that sign said no tress passin’ But on the other side .... it didn’t say nothin!
In the squares of the city In the shadow of the steeple Near the relief office I see my people And some are grumblin’ and some are wonderin’ If this land’s still made for you and me.
Constantina Skoutari Britney Lam
Team working for this project was actually really appropriate. There are lots of things you have to take into consideration and lots of skills are needed as well to work by yourself. Working together we learned new techniques from each other. What we find out is each time one of us stuck on an idea or something the other one will help and together we develop much stronger ideas. What we gain by working together is that you have to be a good listener and understand each other ideas/thoughts and when a challenge occur to pick the best and effective idea even if it’s not yours
Final Video
Published by Constantina Skoutari & Britney Lam