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Peter Seeger Remembered
By Alicia Waters | January 29, 2014
How can I keep from singing: Pete Seeger by David King Dunaway. Reading time: 15 hours, 45 minutes. The author of this biography about “the most picketed, boycotted performer in American history” was given access to his subject’s family, friends, letters, and journals. A “red diaper baby,” Seeger was the son of a musicologist who had undergone a dramatic socialist conversion. Young Pete turned to folk music after dropping out of Harvard in 1938; he was soon fast friends with both Leadbelly and Woody Guthrie. DB 25866
Pete Seeger: the storm king : spoken word set to a world of music by Pete Seeger. Reading time: 2 hours, 21 minutes. Legendary folk singer (born 1919) narrates personal stories and poems, set to original music by nearly fifty performers from diverse traditions, including African, Native American, blues, bluegrass, folk, and jazz. DB 77113
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