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Will Kaufman

Will Kaufman

https://www.willkaufman.com

Will Kaufman is a singer, multi-instrumentalist and Professor of American Literature and Culture at the University of Central Lancashire in Preston, England. He has given his Woody Guthrie presentations at such major events as the Glastonbury Festival, the Bath International Music Festival, the Whitby Folk Festival, the Big Session, and the Piacenza Literature and Blues Festival in Italy. He has also performed at countless European and American universities, trades clubs, folk clubs and union halls.

Will has written a number of books on American culture – American Culture in the 1970s (Edinburgh, 2009), The Civil War in American Culture (Edinburgh, 2006) and The Comedian as Confidence Man (Wayne State, 1997). In 2008 Will was awarded his first Woody Guthrie Research Fellowship from the Broadcast Music Industry Foundation, which enabled him to write the first political biography of Guthrie, Woody Guthrie, American Radical (Illinois, 2011); he won his second BMI-Woody Guthrie Fellowship in 2014, which led to his second book on Guthrie, Woody Guthrie’s Modern World Blues (Oklahoma, 2017). A third book, Mapping Woody Guthrie, will be published in 2019 by the University of Oklahoma Press. Will was consultant to Johnny Depp and Douglas Brinkley for the publication of their co-edited edition of Guthrie’s recently discovered novel, House of Earth (2013), and it was Will who unearthed Guthrie’s writings condemning the racist practices of his New York landlord, Fred Trump.

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