{"id":637,"date":"2019-05-10T15:40:33","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T15:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/blog\/?p=637"},"modified":"2021-06-17T09:51:01","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T09:51:01","slug":"woody-guthrie-and-old-man-trump-the-village-trip-hosts-will-kaufman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/woody-guthrie-and-old-man-trump-the-village-trip-hosts-will-kaufman\/","title":{"rendered":"Woody Guthrie and ‘Old Man Trump’ \u2013 The Village Trip hosts Will Kaufman"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n
It was standing room only in the Revelation Gallery at St John\u2019s in the West Village when Will Kaufman hit town to present his livewords-and-music documentary about the life and work of Woody Guthrie and the songs he wrote in the 1950s for his Brooklyn landlord, one Fred Trump.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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Kaufman, singer, guitarist \u2013 and academic, Professor of American Literature and Culture at Britain\u2019s University of Central Lancashire \u2013 discovered the Trump songs in the Woody Guthrie Center archive in Tulsa, Oklahoma. They are among the aspects of the singer-songwriter and journalist\u2019s work explored in his new book Mapping Woody Guthrie<\/em> (University of Oklahoma Press).<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n