Its roots went earlier, and performers like Burl Ives, Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly, and Oscar Brand had enjoyed a limited general popularity in the 1930s and 1940s.

In critic Kurt Loder's description, the Sex Pistols purveyed a " calculated, arty nihilism, the Clash were unabashed idealists, proponents of a radical left-wing social critique of a sort that reached back at least to ... Woody Guthrie in the 1940s ".

Gordon's Broadway acting appearances in the 1940s included Iris in Paul Vincent Carroll's The Strings, My Lord, Are False and Natasha in Katharine Cornell and Guthrie McClintic's revival of Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters, as well as leading roles in her own plays, Over Twenty-One and The Leading Lady.

Guthrie ’ s Jewish lyrics can be traced to the unusual collaborative relationship he had with his mother-in-law, who lived across from Guthrie and his family in Brooklyn in the 1940s.

Among the earliest of the urban folk vocal groups was the Almanac Singers, who were formed specifically for the purpose of popularizing protest music for political ends and whose shifting membership during the early 1940s included Guthrie, Seeger and Lee Hays.

In the 1940s and 1950s Woody Guthrie, and Pete Seeger, along with Lee Hays and other members of The Weavers performed their mostly topical works ( Seeger performed solo and as part of the Weavers ) to an ever growing wider audience.

With her debut in talkies only moderately successful, she acted on the stage for the most part in the 1930s and early 1940s, appearing in roles as varied as Ophelia in Guthrie McClintic's landmark 1936 production of Hamlet ( with John Gielgud and Judith Anderson ) and Marguerite in a limited run of La Dame aux Camélias.

He was part of the strong folk music scene in New York in the 1940s, and with Leadbelly, Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger and Josh White helped prepare for the commercially successful folk revival of the 1960s.

In the 1940s through the 1960s, The Weavers as well as Woody Guthrie were influential in this type of social and political music.

The American song collection of over 200 songs in Hard Hitting Songs For Hard Hit People by Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger and Alan Lomax in the 1940s ( not published till 1967 ), explored worker's song further.

Magazine, the national folk music quarterly founded by Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger in the late 1940s, and he is a voting member on the Board of Governors of NARAS in Philadelphia.

Despite this, Babbage's work fell into historical obscurity and the Analytical Engine was unknown to builders of electro-mechanical and electronic computing machines in the 1930s and 1940s when they began their work, resulting in the need to re-invent many of the architectural innovations Babbage had proposed.

The American folk music revival was a phenomenon in the United States that began during the 1940s and peaked in popularity in the mid-1960s.

Faced with a desperate need for money, Nin, Miller and some of their friends began in the 1940s to write erotic and pornographic narratives for an anonymous " collector " for a dollar a page, somewhat as a joke .< ref >

Although Latin Jazz is most popularly associated with artists from the Caribbean ( particularly Cuba ) and Brazil, young Mexican Americans have played a role in its development over the years, going back to the 1930s and early 1940s, the era of the zoot suit, when young Mexican American musicians in Los Angeles and San Jose began to experiment with banda, a Jazz-like Mexican music that has grown recently in popularity among Mexican Americans such as Jenni Rivera.

With the development of efficient computer technology in the 1940s, the solutions of elaborate wave equations for complex atomic systems began to be a realizable objective.

Efforts began in the late 1940s to find non-volatile memory.

Inspired from his trip South, Alston began his " family series " in the 1940s.

Experimenting with the use of negative space and organic forms in the late 1940s, by the mid-1950s Alston began creating notably modernist style paintings.

As early as the 1940s, scientists in the U. S. had begun expressing concern over possible hazards associated with DDT, and in the 1950s the government began tightening some of the regulations governing its use.

His stories began to be published regularly by the 1940s ; at the same time he was becoming an important editor.

Thus began what is now often called " The Golden Age of Hollywood ", which refers roughly to the period beginning with the introduction of sound until the late 1940s.

The homophile movement began in the late 1940s with groups in the Netherlands and Denmark, and continued throughout the 1950s and 1960s with groups in Sweden, Norway, the United States, France, Britain and elsewhere.

HBOG expanded during the 1940s and 50's, and in 1960 began shipping Canadian crude to Billings, Montana, refinery through a new link to Glacier pipeline.

In the 1940s, new interpretations of John's reign began to emerge, based on research into the record evidence of his reign, such as pipe rolls, charters, court documents and similar primary records.

In the late 1940s, following his immigration to Israel, he began to provide lessons on combat training to what was to become the IDF, who went on to develop the system that became known as Krav Maga.

It was initially grown in domestic gardens, but commercial planting began in the 1940s.

In the 1940s, he began to take an interest in Schoenbergian Twelve-tone technique ; though he studied with Webern his own idiom was closer to Alban Berg.

In the 1940s, they began to displace steam power on American railroads.

George William Gray, a prominent researcher of liquid crystals, began investigating these materials in England in the late 1940s.

By the end of the 19th century, the economy began declining and by the 1940s, Malta's economy was in serious crisis.

The American modernist dramatist Eugene O ' Neill's, career began in 1914, but his major works appeared in the 1920s and 1930s and early 1940s.

During the latter half of the 1940s, Friedman began a collaboration with Anna Schwartz, an economic historian at the Bureau, that would ultimately result in the 1963 publication of a book co-authored by Friedman and Schwartz, A Monetary History of the United States, 1867 – 1960.

Before the cold war began in the late 1940s, Foot favoured a ' third way ' foreign policy for Europe ( he was joint author with Richard Crossman and Ian Mikardo of the pamphlet Keep Left in 1947 ), but in the wake of the communist seizure of power in Hungary and Czechoslovakia he and Tribune took a strongly anti-communist position, eventually embracing NATO.

Floor maltings began to be phased out in the 1940s in favour of " pneumatic plants ".

Research into fusion for military purposes began in the early 1940s as part of the Manhattan Project, but this was not accomplished until 1951 ( see the Greenhouse Item nuclear test ), and nuclear fusion on a large scale in an explosion was first carried out on November 1, 1952, in the Ivy Mike hydrogen bomb test.

The primary application of this doctrine started during the Cold War ( 1940s to 1990s ) in which MAD was seen as helping to prevent any direct full-scale conflicts between the United States and the Soviet Union while they engaged in smaller proxy wars around the world.

" His ability to direct a string of classic literary adaptations into huge box-office and critical successes made him one of " Hollywood's most bankable moviemakers " during the 1930s and 1940s.

In the late 1940s when magnetic tape replaced direct wax disc recording and high fidelity long playing records were introduced, the conductor said he was much happier making recordings.

The Patton Tank family ( here a Belgian M46 Patton | M46 ) was the direct result of the revival of the late 1940s US armament modernization program framed by the MDAA

ABC-Paramount ( full name " American Broadcasting-Paramount Theaters ") -- the direct antecedent of the present-day American Broadcasting Company -- evolved from federal antitrust actions taken against the movie studios and broadcasting companies in the 1940s and early 1950s.

From the 1930s to the late 1940s, before the introduction of magnetic tape, recordings were normally made directly to acetate discs ( see direct to disc recording ).

He provided a rare direct link between the anti-imperialism of the late 19th century and the conservative Old Right of the 1930s and 1940s.

During the 1940s, the Canadian government created policies to direct Chinese, Japanese, and First Nations into farming, and other sectors of the economy that “ other groups were abandoning for more lucrative employment elsewhere ”.

In some cases, overt political pressure has resulted in a backlash ; a famous example is that of the US in the late 1940s, when the US Congress had direct authority over stamp design, and a large number of issues were put out merely to please a representative's constituency or industry lobbyists.

Had the work been published in the 1940s, the material would have been biased towards labeling the New Deal as a direct corollary of Progressivism.

The publication, which is housed by Casa Presei Libere, is often described as a direct successor to the PCR organ Scînteia ( rival of the 1940s Adevărul ).

In the 1940s, a direct road was built from Minto to Fredericton, passing the site of the former World War II internment camp at Ripples.