Here’s an interesting article about the same musician: https://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-07-21/why-woody-guthries-guitar-was-a-fascist-killer.html
Relevant paragraph:
Woody Guthrie’s guitar didn’t kill fascists because it fired bullets. It killed by neutralizing the fascists. Music, like culture, has the power to defeat right-wing extremists and their antidemocratic ideas rooted in xenophobia, racism, homophobia and sexism. Guthrie fought using ideas, language, music and the shared desire to build a better future together.
It’s hard to be nice about this. But I’ll try. Assuming you’re from the US, start with indigenous music, I’m particular to rock and rap from the northwest. Move on to spirituals or work songs from the deep south, then jazz, particularly in Chicago during the Great Migration, then move on to folk music like Guthrie, then maybe skip another few decades and you’ve got rage against the machine and others.
How is it hard to be nice about this? What a weird take. Sharing music is so great it’s hard not to be nice about it.
Wow u r very smart