Who Was Pete Seeger?

Who Was Pete Seeger?
Author: Noel MacCarry
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 113
Release: 2017-06-06
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1524785199

Pete Seeger was an American folk musician and social activist whose outspoken songs about freedom and justice got him blacklisted from radio and TV for years. Pete Seeger was still singing and playing the banjo for tens of thousands of fans even when he was at the age of ninety-four. Born in New York City on May 3, 1919, Pete came from a family of musicians. Despite writing and singing folk songs that all of America knows, not many kids know his name. Why? Because his ties to the Communist Party got him banned from radio and television for many years! Well-known for his civil rights activism with Martin Luther King Jr., Seeger also spearheaded efforts that cleaned up the Hudson River and made it beautiful again. His best-known songs include "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?", "If I Had a Hammer" and "Turn, Turn, Turn." In this easy-to-read biography from the New York Times best-selling series, Pete Seeger is revealed as not just a performer but as a champion for a better world and the eighty illustrations contained in the book help bring his story to life.

Pete Seeger's Storytelling Book

Pete Seeger's Storytelling Book
Author: Pete Seeger
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2001
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780156013116

For children raised on Abiyoyo here's a cozy collection of old and new classics to share with parents. Each section is preceded by an introduction describing the origins of the stories. Also included is a brief afterword for each story, suggesting ways to personalize the stories for the reader's own family. The book ends with a collection of story beginnings to help anyone become a storyteller.

The Protest Singer

The Protest Singer
Author: Alec Wilkinson
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2010-06-08
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0307390985

A spirited and intimate look at American icon and activist Pete Seeger. Throughout his life, Pete Seeger transformed a classic American musical style into a form of peaceful protest against war, segregation, and nuclear weapons. Drawing on his extensive talks with Seeger, Alec Wilkinson delivers a first hand look at Seeger's unique blend of independence and commitment, charm, courage, energy, and belief in human equality and American democracy. We see Seeger as a child, instilled with a love of music by his parents; as a teenager, hearing real folk music for the first time; as a young adult, singing with Woody Guthrie. And finally, Seeger the man marching with the Rev. Martin Luther King in Selma, standing up to McCarthyism, and fighting for his beloved Hudson River. The gigantic life captured in this slender volume is truly an American anthem.

Where Have All the Flowers Gone

Where Have All the Flowers Gone
Author: Pete Seeger
Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2009
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780393338614

Traces the folk singer's career, influence, and political development through sheet music, quotations, reflections, and anecdotes, andincludes one CD-ROM with MP3s excerpts from over two hundred songs.

Romancing the Folk

Romancing the Folk
Author: Benjamin Filene
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2000
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780807848623

In American music, the notion of "roots" has been a powerful refrain, but just what constitutes our true musical traditions has often been a matter of debate. As Benjamin Filene reveals, a number of competing visions of America's musical past have vied fo

The Incompleat Folksinger

The Incompleat Folksinger
Author: Pete Seeger
Publisher: Bison Books
Total Pages: 596
Release: 1992
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780803292161

The well-known folksinger explores the appeal, traditions, significance and performers of folk music from America, Asia, Europe, and Africa

Everybody Says Freedom

Everybody Says Freedom
Author: Pete Seeger
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1989
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780393306040

Montgomery, Alabama, 1955--the civil rights movement has begun. The authors build a narrative from the words of the people, their photographs and their songs to form an emphasis on triumph in an uncertain age. Photos and music.

A Pete Seeger Discography

A Pete Seeger Discography
Author: David King Dunaway
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2010-11-12
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0810877198

Pete Seeger is one of the most recorded artists in American history, and his recording catalog tells us not just the story of his career but the story of our culture and its political and social history. A Pete Seeger Discography: Seventy Years of Recordings is a comprehensive listing of the 45s, 78s, LPs, and CDs recorded by Seeger in his various incarnations: with the Almanac Singers, with the Weavers, as a solo artist, and with other musicians and contributors. David King Dunaway provides information, with easy to use cross-references, on rare recordings and archival collections. The discography offers details on Seeger's recording history, including the album title, song(s), other artists on the recording, the publisher and number, and the year or exact recording date if known, as well as the original release date and the re-releases of each recording. Structured to make locating details easy for readers, the recordings are organized chronologically and categorized by albums, singles, private pressings, and foreign releases. Readers can easily cross-reference through album and song title indexes and a contributing artist index. An appendix listing the unreleased archival holdings of the Smithsonian Folkways collection under Moe Asch completes the volume, and a photospread with more than 30 of Seeger's album covers convey a pictorial recording history of this well-loved artist. The authors gratefully acknowledge Furthermore: a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund, for their funding assistance in preparing this discography.

Stand Up and Sing!

Stand Up and Sing!
Author: Susanna Reich
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Childrens
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2017-03-21
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780802738127

Inspired by the rhythms of American folk music, this moving account of Pete Seeger's life celebrates his legacy, showing kids of every generation that no cause is too small and no obstacle too large if, together, you stand up and sing! Pete Seeger was born with music in his bones. Coming of age during the Great Depression, Pete saw poverty and adversity that would forever shape his worldview, but it wasn't until he received his first banjo that he found his way to change the world. It was plucking banjo strings and singing folk songs that showed Pete how music had the incredible power to bring people together. Using this gift throughout his life, Pete encouraged others to rally behind causes that mattered--fighting for Civil Rights, ending the Vietnam War, or cleaning up the Hudson River. For Pete, no challenge was too great, and what started out as a love for music turned into a lifetime of activism and change. His greatest talent--and greatest passion--would become an unforgettable part of American history.

Let Your Voice Be Heard

Let Your Voice Be Heard
Author: Anita Silvey
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 117
Release: 2016-08-02
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0544826078

Pete Seeger, the iconic folk musician and multiple Grammy winner, discovered early in life that what he wanted to do was make music. His amazing career as singer, songwriter, and banjo player spanned seven decades, and included both low points (being charged with contempt of Congress) and highlights (receiving the Kennedy Center Honor from President Clinton). An activist and protester, Seeger crusaded for the rights of labor, the rights of people of color, and the First Amendment right to let his voice be heard, and launched the successful campaign to clean up the Hudson River. Archival photographs and prints, source notes, bibliography, index.