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[David King Dunaway] ✓ How Can I Keep from Singing?: The Ballad of Pete Seeger ☆ Download Online eBook or Kindle ePUB. How Can I Keep from Singing?: The Ballad of Pete Seeger Updated with new research and interviews, unpublished photographs, and thoughtful comments from Pete Seeger himself, this is an inside history of the man Carl Sandburg called “America’s Tuning Fork.” In the only biography on Seeger, David Dunaway parts the curtains on his life.Who is this rail-thin, eighty-eight-year-old with the five-string banjo, whose performances have touched millions of people for more than seven decades? Bob Dylan called him a saint. He was investigated f
| Title | : | How Can I Keep from Singing?: The Ballad of Pete Seeger |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.39 (875 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0345506081 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 560 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-11-02 |
| Language | : | English |
"Our Musical Father" according to Richard A. Root. Pete Seeger is a musical genius, and a man who has introduced many of us to the music of America. This goes without saying, at least to those of us who were born in the "boomer" generation. Many younger people may know his music, but have no idea that he had anything to do with it. Today, he is often praised and loved, but not many know his story. He has never written his autobiography, other than "An Incomplete Folksinger" which was a collection of short writings he'd done. This book does tell his story. And, an amazing story it is. Pete Seeger is a study in courage. Born to a family who wa. James Capaldi said Great Biography of a Great American. David King Dunaway has done a wonderful job in updating his classic biography of Pete Seeger. Dunaway, with excellent narrative skill, tells not only Seeger's life story, but also gives us a mini-history of the progressive movement in this country for the last eighty years or so. Seeger's involvement in the labor movement, the civil rights movement, the peace movement, and the environmental movement are all covered in depth. Also the struggle to be able to sing his songs in a supposedly free America is explored in the tales related to the riots at Peekskill, the McCarthy era, the blacklist, . Biography of a National Treasure: Pete Seeger This well-written, well-researched biography of one of America's folk icons is "can't- put-it-down" fare. The influences of family, the times, and the music itself that shaped Pete Seeger's music make for fascinating reading. One emerges from this book with an enhanced sense of history as heard through the songs sung by Seeger and his contemporaries, Leadbelly, Woody Guthrie, the Almanac Singers, and the Weavers, to name a few. Of particular import is the discussion of Seeger's interrogation by McCarthy's House Committee on Unamerican Activities, and subsequent blacklisting. The important le
Updated with new research and interviews, unpublished photographs, and thoughtful comments from Pete Seeger himself, this is an inside history of the man Carl Sandburg called “America’s Tuning Fork.” In the only biography on Seeger, David Dunaway parts the curtains on his life.Who is this rail-thin, eighty-eight-year-old with the five-string banjo, whose performances have touched millions of people for more than seven decades? Bob Dylan called him a saint. He was investigated for sedition, harassed by the FBI and the CIA, picketed, and literally stoned by conservative groups. It
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