Pete Seeger Reader

Herausgeber: Cohen, Ronald D; Capaldi, James

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Produktbeschreibung

The Pete Seeger Reader brings together writing by and about Seeger and covers his songwriting, recording, book and magazine publishing, and political organizing over the course of his lengthy, storied career.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 161mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 610g
• ISBN-13: 9780199862016
• ISBN-10: 019986201X
• Artikelnr.: 38022188

Autorenporträt

Ronald D. Cohen taught at Indiana University Northwest for 34 years. He has published numerous books on the history of folk music and radical politics in the United States. Since his retirement in 2004 he has continued to research and write about folk music in the United States and Great Britain. James Capaldi has written several articles for Folk Review of England, Folk Scene of Los Angeles, and Sing Out! magazine. He is the host of the Pete Seeger Appreciation Page at http://peteseeger.net, an encyclopedic source of information about Pete Seeger.

Inhaltsangabe

* 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