Modern and Contemporary Studies
Prophets with Guitars: How Folk Music Gave Voice to the Modern Apocalypse
What if the apocalypse had a soundtrack? Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan used folk music to turn revelation into protest and the end of the world into hope for a world remade. In their songs, the apocalypse is still alive: not in the form of a religious worldview, but in songs that imagine a new future.
