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| Anthologies of environmental writing were published for college literature and composition classes, beginning with Glen and Rhoda Love's Ecological Crisis (1970), which included writings by Joseph Wood Krutch, Peter Matthiesson, and ballad-entwined prose by folksinger Malvina Reynolds. The great folksinger Woody Guthrie said, Music is in all of the sounds of nature and there never was a sound that was not music--the splash of an alligator, the rain dripping on dry leaves, a long and lonesome train whistling down, a truck horn blowing at a street corner speaker--kids squawling along the streets--the silent wail of wind and sky caressing the breasts of the desert . She did something similar in Songstress, 2002, for which she filmed a number of aspiring female folksingers performing ballads outdoors, in unsullied Pacific Northwest landscapes. |
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