Pete Seeger

Biographic Data

ID145445
NAMEPete Seeger
GIVEN NAMESPete
FAMILY NAMESeeger
SIGNATURESEEGER P
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS18
TOTAL CITATIONS10
AUTHOR COUNT18
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1948
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2015
H-INDEX1

  • Possibility and Hope: Getting from Here to There

    Pete Seeger, Linda C Forbes et al.ARTICLEMonthly Review2015

    Pete Seeger is an environmental advocate who understands the transforming power of immersion in nature. However, his desire to restore his cherished Hudson River posed a monumental challenge in the 1960s. The Hudson River, once so majestic that it inspired the Hudson River School painters, had become a sewer for the communities and commercial industries that populated its shoreline. Seeger’s approach to reversing the degradation of the Hudson Riv…

  • A Remarkable Journey

    Pete SeegerARTICLEMonthly Review2006

    Doris Haddock (with Dennis Burke), Granny D: Walking Across America in My 90th Year(New York: Villard Books, 2001), 285 pages, $21.95, hardcover.Doris Haddock is a retired shoe factory worker and a member of the Episcopal Church in Dublin, New Hampshire, where her grandmother came in the nineteenth century to work in a textile mill. Doris married young, raised a family, and has twelve great-grandchildrenThis article can also be found at the Month…

  • Possibility and Hope: Getting from Here to There

    Linda C Forbes, Linda Forbes et al.ARTICLEMonthly Review2005

    Pete Seeger is one of the world's quintessential activists, having played such an important role in singing the songs and engaging in the struggles of civil rights, free speech, human rights, anti-Vietnam War, environmental, peace, anti-nuclear, and social justice movements. (David Kupfer, "Longtime Passing," Whole Earth Magazine, 104, 2001, p. 19.)This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are publis…

  • Sing for Freedom: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement Through Its Songs

    Bill C Malone, Guy Carawan et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1993

  • Everybody Says Freedom: A History of the Civil Rights Movement in Songs and Pictures, including Many Songs Collected by Guy and Candie Carawan

    A S, Pete Seeger et al.ARTICLEYearbook for Traditional Music1990

  • To Hear Your Banjo Play

    Dennis Coelho, Alan Lomax et al.ARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1979

    The story of Pete Seeger and the birth of banjo music throughout the Southern United States. Written by Alan Lomax and directed by Irving Lerner, this short feature includes performances from Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Baldwin Hawes, Sonny Terry, Brownee McGhee, Texas Gladden, and Margot Mayo's Square Dance Group

  • Three Songs by Leadbelly

    David Evans, Blanding Sloan et al.ARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1976

  • The Incompleat Folksinger

    Roger L Welsch, Pete Seeger et al.ARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1975

    Seeger describes his friends and inspirations, his conflicts with the bosses and the government, his favorite songs, stories, and instruments, and the kind of learning that comes from listening carefully. A feast of ideas and information of all kinds: bits of philosophy, recollections, advice, directions, instructions, with the experience of thirty years of traveling and singing compressed between the covers. . . . There is humor, wisdom, and muc…

  • Hard-Hitting Songs for Hard-Hit People

    D K Wilgus, Alan Lomax et al.ARTICLEWestern Folklore1969Cited by: 8

  • The 12-String Guitar as Played by Leadbelly: An Instruction Manual

    Open AccessDennis Murphy, Dennis F Murphy et al.ARTICLEWestern Folklore1968

  • Reprints from Sing out! The Folk Song Magazine, Volume 7

    W Edson Richmond, Pete Seeger et al.ARTICLEWestern Folklore1966

  • American Favorite Ballads

    Frank A Hoffmann, Frank Hoffmann et al.ARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1964

  • American Favorite Ballads

    Open AccessD K Wilgus, Pete SeegerARTICLEWestern Folklore1962Cited by: 1

  • Songs of the Civil War

    Open AccessJohn Greenway, Irwin Silber et al.ARTICLEWestern Folklore1961Cited by: 1

  • Music from Oil Drums

    Daniel J Crowley, Pete SeegerARTICLEEthnomusicology1959

  • Ballads of the Revolution

    Macedward Leach, Wallace House et al.ARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1956

  • Folk Songs and Ballads (Stinson SLP #47)

    Open AccessBertrand Harris Bronson, Bill Bender et al.ARTICLEWestern Folklore1954

  • Recent Folk Song Albums

    Levette J Davidson, Burl Ives et al.ARTICLEWestern Folklore1948