Plane Wreck at Los Gatos
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"Plane Wreck at Los Gatos (Deportee)" is a protest song written by Woody Guthrie, later popularized by artists like Pete Seeger and Joan Baez, that laments the anonymous deaths of Mexican farm workers in a 1948 California plane crash and criticizes the dehumanizing treatment of migrants.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Plane Wreck at Los Gatos canonical | 2 |
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | song ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Chicano movement
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farm workers’ rights movement ⓘ |
| basedOn | 1948 Los Gatos Canyon plane crash ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| criticizes | dehumanizing treatment of migrants ⓘ |
| describesDeathOf |
Mexican farm workers
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deportees ⓘ |
| form | narrative ballad ⓘ |
| genre |
folk music
ⓘ
protest music ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeTitle | Deportee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasChorusLine |
All they will call you will be deportee
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Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita ⓘ You won’t have a name when you ride the big airplane ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn |
cultural memory of the 1948 Los Gatos crash
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subsequent protest songs about immigration ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| locationOfEventDescribed | Los Gatos Canyon, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| lyricist | Woody Guthrie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memorializes | victims of the 1948 Los Gatos Canyon plane crash ⓘ |
| movement | American folk revival ⓘ |
| notableFor |
critique of media treatment of migrants
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highlighting unnamed Mexican victims in news reports ⓘ |
| performanceContext |
civil rights events
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folk concerts ⓘ labor rallies ⓘ |
| perspective | pro-migrant ⓘ |
| popularizedBy |
Arlo Guthrie
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Dolly Parton NERFINISHED ⓘ Emmylou Harris NERFINISHED ⓘ Joan Baez NERFINISHED ⓘ Nanci Griffith NERFINISHED ⓘ Pete Seeger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subject |
Mexican farm workers
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aviation accident ⓘ human rights ⓘ immigration ⓘ migrant workers ⓘ racism ⓘ |
| theme |
anonymity of migrant victims
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dignity of migrants ⓘ labor rights ⓘ social justice ⓘ |
| writer | Woody Guthrie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearOfEventDescribed | 1948 ⓘ |
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.