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

Name: How Can I Keep from Singing? The Ballad of Pete Seeger
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ISBN: 9780345506085

ISBN-10: 0345506081

ISBN-13: 9780345506085

Edition: 2008

Authors: David King Dunaway, Pete Seeger

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"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 Updated with new research and interviews, unpublished photographs, and thoughtful comments from Pete Seeger himself, this is an inside history of the man Carl Sandburg called "America's Tuning Fork."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…

Book details

List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 3/18/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 560
Size: 5.52" wide x 8.24" long x 1.22" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Pete Seeger is an internationally acclaimed songwriter, musician and activist.



Foreword




Hold the Line



Wasn't That a Time



Abiyoyo



66 Highway Blues



Talking Union



Union Maid



If I Had a Hammer



Where Have All the Flowers Gone?



John Henry



We Shall Overcome



Waist Deep in the Big Muddy



Golden River



Turn! Turn! Turn!


Epilogue


Acknowledgments


Notes


Bibliography


Discography


Permissions


Index