How can I keep from singing : Pete Seeger /
David King Dunaway.
- First paperback edition
- New York, NY : McGraw-Hill Book Co., c1981, c1982
- 386 pages, [20] pages of plates : black and white illustrations and photographs ; 24 cm.
Includes discography (pages [339]-380.) "The major sources for this work are 110 interviews conducted by the author from 1976 to 1980, the writings and recordings of Pete Seeger, and the articles and books listed in the bibliography that follow these notes." -- from the text This resources includes black and white photographs of Pete Seeger's personal and professional life, as well as plates of political and musical notices and pamphlets.
Includes bibliograpical references (pages 314-338) and index.
1. Hold the line -- 2. Wasn't that a time? -- 3. Abiyoyo -- 4. 66 highway blues -- 5. Talking union -- 6. Union maid -- 7. If I had a hammer -- 8. Where have all the flowers gone? -- 9. John Henry -- 10. We shall overcome -- 11. Waist deep in the Big Muddy -- 12. Golden river -- Epilogue -- Notes --- Bibliography -- Discography -- Index.
"How Can I Keep from Singing? is the compelling story of how the son of a respectable Puritan family became a consummate performer and American rebel. Updated with new research and interviews, unpublished photographs, and thoughtful comments from Pete Seeger himself, this is an inside history of the man Carl Sandburg called “America’s Tuning Fork.” 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. Joan Baez said, “We all owe our careers to him.” But Seeger’s considerable musical achievements were overshadowed by political controversy when he became perhaps the most blacklisted performer in American history. He was investigated for sedition, harassed by the FBI and the CIA, picketed, and literally stoned by conservative groups. Still, he sang. Today, Seeger remains an icon of conscience and culture, and his classic antiwar songs, sung by Bruce Springsteen and millions of others, live again in the movement against foreign wars. His life holds lessons for surviving repressive times and for turning to music to change the world." -- online "For all his notoriety, Seeger's life remained a closely guarded secret. David King Dunaway pats the curtain through interviews with Pete, his family, friends, and fellow musicians to give a portrait of one of the most remarkable perfomers, composes, and activists of this century." -- back cover.
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Seeger, Pete, 1919-2014.
Folk singers--United States--Biography. Folk music--Social aspects Protest songs--United States Working class--United States--Songs and music