How Can I Keep from Singing?: The Ballad of Pete Seeger
- ISBN-10
- 0307495973
- ISBN-13
- 9780307495976
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 544
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009-03-12
- Publisher
- Villard
- Author
- David King Dunaway
Description
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 Updated with new research and interviews, unpublished photographs, and thoughtful comments from Pete Seeger himself, this is an inside history of the man Carl Sandburg called “America’s Tuning Fork.”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. Today, Seeger remains an icon of conscience and culture, and his classic antiwar songs, sung by Bruce Springsteen and millions of others, live again in the movement against foreign wars. His life holds lessons for surviving repressive times and for turning to music to change the world. “This biography is a beauty. It captures not only the life of the bard but the world of which he sings.” –Studs Terkel “A fine and meticulous biography . . . Dunaway has taken [Seeger’s] materials and woven them into a detailed, interesting, and well-written narrative of a most fascinating life.” –American Music “An extraordinary tale of an extraordinary man [that] will intrigue not only his legions of followers but everyone interested in one man’s battles and victories.” –Chicago Sun-Times
Get the book
Other editions
Similar books
-
How Can We Keep from Singing: Music and the Passionate Life
By Joan Oliver GoldsmithJulia Ward Howe's words , “ Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord , ” are sung to the same tune as “ John Brown's body lies a - mouldering in the grave . ” So “ The Battle Hymn of the Republic ” appropriated its melody ...
-
How Can I Keep From Singing
By Tecumapese Morning Star“I think I would like to sing How Can I Keep From Singing for the audition,” he told Senor Josso after class. “Not a bad choice,” she said. “I have a video on my computer of a boys' choir from London who sings this song.
-
Endless Song: (how Can I Keep from Singing?)
The peace of Christ makes fresh my heart, a fountain ever springing; all things are mine since I am His. How can I keep from singing?
-
The Wedding Collection: High Voice
By Richard WaltersWith this collection, any singer will be able to find songs to please any bride.
-
Creating Artistry Through Choral Excellence
By Henry LeckThis comprehensive text, written with Dr. Flossie Jordan, is an insightful guide for choral directors in the field and in training to help develop the teaching skills, leadership abilities, conducting technique, knowledge of repertoire and ...
-
Lift Up Your Hearts: Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs
By John D. Witvliet, Joyce Borger, Martin TelThis hymnal supports the full range of actions in worship.
-
Oh, how Can I Keep from Singing?: For SATB Chorus Unaccompanied
By Robert A. Harrisfor SATB unaccompanied An expressive setting of the text of a traditional folk hymn. An arrangement for men's voices is also available.
-
Reflections on "endless Song": How Can I Keep from Singing?
A pastoral, undulating bass line, along with thoughtful harmony, conveys the quiet joy of Robert Lowry's comforting words: "The peace of Christ makes fresh my heart, a fountain ever springing! All things are mine since I am His!
-
How Can I Keep from Singing: Pete Seeger
By DunawaynrrrHow Can I Keep from Singing: Pete Seeger
-
15 Easy Folksong Arrangements (Songbook): High Voice Introduction by Joan Frey Boytim
By Hal Leonard Corp.(Vocal Collection). This collection is designed for those students, of any age beyond early teens, in the early stages of voice study, although the arrangements are so satisfying that more advanced singers will also enjoy them.