Show The Herald Journal Logan Utah Sunday March 30 1986- -5 0 Q By Mike Simmons managing editor Music has been a form of communication for centuries but the protest songs of the Vietnam era are perhaps the most recent examples of “statement music” Ron Goede president of the Bridger Folk Music Society noted in an interview at his home in Logan however that musicians were making statements in their songs long before the 1960s According to Goede pathologist which allows you to express and Joan Baez became synonymous with songs which made a point songs which urged people to think and become involved "Dylan was a great songwriter who also had a social conscience” Goede said adding that Baez used her popularity to focus the public’s thought on the political and social issues of the day "You can do something with a US participation in the Vietnam War intensified song you can’t do with words” he' said “A song adds another throughout the decade Names such as Bob Dylan dimension to communication he said “They were blacklisted and couldn’t find work” Goede called Seeger "a great troubadour” and “another good communicator” who had “real magic with the people” The McCarthy years passed and the evolution of file statement song slowed until the civil rights movement erupted in the late 50s and early 1960s The as songs reached full-bloo- emotions” He said that many of the message songs which have been sung over the years were written by people who were observers rather than participants Many of the singers who sang about racial discrimination for example were white and had not experienced discrimination themselves “But a lot of them felt offended by what they saw” and put their feelings into songs m Goede said The war ended and the times and many of the changed musicians who launched the protest movement during the Vietnam years have retired or modified their repertoires But Goede said message songs are still being sung “There doesn’t seem to be any great movement right now” he said “but a lot of music is still being written” He said singers such as Ronnie Gilbert (one of the original members of The Weavers with Pete Seeger) and Holly Near are singing songs about the women’s movement And contemporary songs — either in the country or pop field — often make statements about personal feelings or Three of his favorite singers are Gordon Pok Ann Mayo Muir and Ed Trickett who sing y Inc albums “The folk singers will always be there” he said “They are kind of the pulse (of our on Folk-Legac- a fish with the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources singers such as the famous Woody Guthrie and Jimmie Rodgers the “Singing Brake-man- ” were making personal statements prior to World War II although the subjects of their songs largely reflected problems experienced by the common person rather than war or politics “Jimmie Rodgers spoke for a lot of people" Goede said “and Guthrie was a great communicator He wrote songs such as This Land is Your Land’ and once was even hired by the government to make a song about the Bonneville Dam “The message songs" Goede said “didn’t really surface until the late 1950s” In 1948 a group called “The Weavers" was formed One of its members was to become one of the most famous of statement musicians during the 1950s and on into the Vietnam era The man's name was Pete Seeger Even in the early 1950s Goede said Seeger was singing songs about unions and the labor movement songs which got him into trouble "Seeger ran up against (Sen Joseph) McCarthy” Goede said “and he was blacklisted and his popular career all but 28 STORES' IN UTAH! 230 STORES NATIONWIDE a BIG-- 0 SUN VALLEY P15580R13 P16580R13 P17580R13 P17580R13 P18575R14 P19575R14 P20575R14 P21575R14 P20575R15 P21575R15 P22575R15 killed” SMALL CAR STEEL ilFGoodrich STEEL BELTED RADIUS a verbal conversation same time The railroad telegraph operators also moved mail on and off the trains sold tickets and received and delivered Western Union telegrams when the transmit Ill the stations $ 1435x165 Ol what the machine was saying Could he sit down at a railroad telegraph and go to work again? “With a little brushing up I could pick it up” he said “It would have to come slower than it used to though” Paper late? 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