Who Was Pete Seeger
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.