Introduction
A. Background
1. Gene Marine, "Guerrilla Minstrel" (1972)
2. "Pete Seeger: 2002" (2005)
B. The Early Years
3. Lawrence Emery, "Interesting Summer" (1939); Pete Seeger, "Pete
And His Banjo Meet Some Fine Mountain Folks," (1940)
4. Pete Seeger, "Banjo Picker in Kentucky" and "Back Where I Come
From" (1941)
5. George Lewis, "America is in Their Songs: Pete Bowers and Al
[sic] Hays collect U.S. Folk Ballads" (1941)
6. The Almanac Singers [Pete Seeger] to Son House (1942); E.A.,
"The 'Almanacs' Part, But Keep on Singing" (1943)
7. Pete Seeger, "Report From The Marianas" (1945)
8. Woody Guthrie, "People's Songs and Its People" (1990)
9. Pete Seeger, "People's Songs Workshop" (1946); Pete Seeger,
"People's Songs and Singers" (1946); "Report to members" (1946);
Pete Seeger, "Report to members" (1946)
10. Pete Seeger, Letter to People's Songs supporters (1948); Pete
Seeger, Letter to People's Songs supporters (1948); Pete Seeger,
Minutes of the "Meeting of National Board of Directors of People's
Songs" (1948)
C. The 1950s
11. Robert W. Dana, "Village Vanguard Has Real Hoe-Down" (1950);
Jay Russell, "How the Weavers Break Night Club Ice" (1950); "Out of
the Corner" (1950); "Weavers' Yarn" (1951); Frederick Woltman,
"Melody Weaves On, Along Party Line," (1951)
12. Alan Lomax notes Darling Corey (1950); Pete Seeger to Ray M.
Lawless (1953)
13. Irwin Silber, "Pete Seeger" (1954)
14. Monty Mons, "Pete Seeger: An Appreciation" (1955); Summary of
government charges, 1955-1957 (1957)
15. Pete Seeger, "A letter of greetings to the editors and readers
of Sing Along" (1957)
16. "Blind Raferty" (aka Dave Van Ronk) (1957); Emerson L.
Batdorff, "It's Not Nose in Folk Song, Artist Proves," (1958)
17. Ronald Radosh, Commies (2001)
D. The 1960s
18. Moses Asch, "Foreword" (1961)
19. "Statement In Court By Pete Seeger Before Judge Thomas F.
Murphy, Federal Court, New York" (1961); David Marcus, "Seeger
Cites Battle Of Politics, Arts," (1961)
20. Eric Winter, "Pete Seeger sails in to a hero's welcome" (1961);
Pete Seeger, "When you're singing just be yourself" (1961)
21. Alan Hjerpe, "Pete Seeger In L.A. Concert" (1962)
22. Pete Seeger, "The Country Washboard Band" (1963); Pete Seeger,
"Introduction: Woody Guthrie Folk Songs" (1963); Pete Seeger,
"Introduction: The Bells of Rhymney" (1964)
23. Pete Seeger letter to Sis Cunningham and Gordon Friesen (1963);
Pete Seeger, "What's In A Word?" (1964); "Pete Seeger Arrives In
Prague To Begin Concert Tour In Eastern Europe" (1964); Ruth
Daniloff, "Pete Seeger In Moscow" (1964)
24. Jon Pankake, "Pete's Children: The American Folksong Revival,
Pro and Con" (1964)
25. [Pete Seeger], "Pete Seeger" (1965); Ralph J. Gleason, "A Folk
Singer Who Meets You Half-Way," (1965)
26. Paul Cowan, "Non-Confrontation In Beacon, New York," (1965)
27. "Big and Muddy" (1967)
28. Pete Seeger, "To Save a River," Guideposts (1970)
E. The 1970s and After
29. Tom Smucker, "If Every Concert Were A Benefit, Pete Seeger
Would Be Frank Sinatra" (1976); Joe Klein, "Pete Seeger's steelyard
benefit," (1977)
30. Marc Fisher, "America's Best-Loved Commie" (1994)
31. Scott Alarik, "No more awards! Pete Seeger" (1996)
32. Greg Kot, "The Boss pulls off celebrating Seeger" (2006)
33. Dick Flacks, "Pete Seeger's Project," (2009)
AFTERWORD
Bibliography
Ronald Cohen is Professor Emeritus of History Indiana University
Northwest, and author of A History of Folk Music Festivals in the
United States: Feasts of Musical Celebration (Scarecrow, 2008),
Folk Music: The Basics (Routledge, 2006) and Rainbow Quest: The
Folk Music Revival and American Society, 1940-1970 (Massachusetts,
2002).
Jim Capaldi is a folk music enthusiast who maintains an impressive
Pete Seeger site at http://www.peteseeger.net/. He has published
numerous articles on folk music.
"The Pete Seeger Reader takes us through a wealth of writings both
by and about its subject. Some have been previously published in
sources well-known and obscure; others are writings - letters,
unpublished essays...The selection covers the sweep of Seeger's
public life, from 1939 (when the twenty-year-old is first mentioned
in a Daily Worker article) to 2009, when Seeger joined Bruce
Springsteen on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to sing
the complete version of Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land" for the
first Obama inauguration." --Will Kaufman, University of Central
Lancashire
"Just as there can never be too many songs from Pete Seeger, there
can never be too many books about him - and there are offerings in
this volume that I have never found elsewhere, new insights into
this extraordinary man, my beloved brother." --Peggy Seeger
"This book has the important pieces about (and by) Pete Seeger. It
follows him from a gangly youngster learning banjo licks on an
old-timer's porch to his international fame inspiring social
movements via music, from civil and human rights to our
all-too-slow environmental awakening. Today's songwriters, turning
to music to express their spirit and social awareness, all owe him
a debt; we all do." --David Dunaway, co-author of Sing Out!: An
Oral History of
America's Folk Music Revivals
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