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

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

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 Updated with new research and interviews, unpublished photographs, and thoughtful comments from Pete Seeger himself, this is an inside history of the man Carl Sandburg called â€œAmericaâ€™s Tuning Fork.â€ In the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, â€œWe all owe our careers to him.â€ But Seegerâ€™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.

â€œThis biography is a beauty. It captures not only the life of the bard but the world of which he sings.â€
â€“Studs Terkel

â€œA fine and meticulous biography . . . Dunaway has taken [Seegerâ€™s] materials and woven them into a detailed, interesting, and well-written narrative of a most fascinating life.â€
â€“American Music

â€œAn extraordinary tale of an extraordinary man [that] will intrigue not only his legions of followers but everyone interested in one manâ€™s battles and victories.â€
â€“Chicago Sun-Times
Country USA
Brand Villard
Manufacturer Random House Publishing Group
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780345506085
Color Black
ReleaseDate 2008-03-18
UnitCount 1
Format Illustrated
EANs 9780345506085

Country	USA
Brand	Villard
Manufacturer	Random House Publishing Group
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9780345506085
Color	Black
ReleaseDate	2008-03-18
UnitCount	1
Format	Illustrated
EANs	9780345506085

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

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