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How Can I Keep from Singing?: The Ballad of Pete Seeger

How Can I Keep from Singing?: The Ballad of Pete Seeger

Dunaway, David King
Seeger, Pete

Paperback

MusiciansPolitical BiographiesCountry & Folk

ISBN10: 0345506081
ISBN13: 9780345506085
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: Mar 18 2008
Pages: 560
Weight: 1.04
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
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 Updated with new research and interviews, unpublished photographs, and thoughtful comments from Pete Seeger himself, this is an inside history of the man Carl Sandburg called America's Tuning Fork. 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. 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.

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