Who Was Pete Seeger?
Title | Who Was Pete Seeger? PDF eBook |
Author | Noel MacCarry |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 113 |
Release | 2017-06-06 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1524785199 |
Pete Seeger was an American folk musician and social activist whose outspoken songs about freedom and justice got him blacklisted from radio and TV for years. Pete Seeger was still singing and playing the banjo for tens of thousands of fans even when he was at the age of ninety-four. Born in New York City on May 3, 1919, Pete came from a family of musicians. Despite writing and singing folk songs that all of America knows, not many kids know his name. Why? Because his ties to the Communist Party got him banned from radio and television for many years! Well-known for his civil rights activism with Martin Luther King Jr., Seeger also spearheaded efforts that cleaned up the Hudson River and made it beautiful again. His best-known songs include "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?", "If I Had a Hammer" and "Turn, Turn, Turn." In this easy-to-read biography from the New York Times best-selling series, Pete Seeger is revealed as not just a performer but as a champion for a better world and the eighty illustrations contained in the book help bring his story to life.
Pete Seeger's Storytelling Book
Title | Pete Seeger's Storytelling Book PDF eBook |
Author | Pete Seeger |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9780156013116 |
For children raised on Abiyoyo here's a cozy collection of old and new classics to share with parents. Each section is preceded by an introduction describing the origins of the stories. Also included is a brief afterword for each story, suggesting ways to personalize the stories for the reader's own family. The book ends with a collection of story beginnings to help anyone become a storyteller.
The Protest Singer
Title | The Protest Singer PDF eBook |
Author | Alec Wilkinson |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 178 |
Release | 2010-06-08 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0307390985 |
A spirited and intimate look at American icon and activist Pete Seeger. Throughout his life, Pete Seeger transformed a classic American musical style into a form of peaceful protest against war, segregation, and nuclear weapons. Drawing on his extensive talks with Seeger, Alec Wilkinson delivers a first hand look at Seeger's unique blend of independence and commitment, charm, courage, energy, and belief in human equality and American democracy. We see Seeger as a child, instilled with a love of music by his parents; as a teenager, hearing real folk music for the first time; as a young adult, singing with Woody Guthrie. And finally, Seeger the man marching with the Rev. Martin Luther King in Selma, standing up to McCarthyism, and fighting for his beloved Hudson River. The gigantic life captured in this slender volume is truly an American anthem.
Where Have All the Flowers Gone
Title | Where Have All the Flowers Gone PDF eBook |
Author | Pete Seeger |
Publisher | W W Norton & Company Incorporated |
Pages | 313 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780393338614 |
Traces the folk singer's career, influence, and political development through sheet music, quotations, reflections, and anecdotes, andincludes one CD-ROM with MP3s excerpts from over two hundred songs.
The Incompleat Folksinger
Title | The Incompleat Folksinger PDF eBook |
Author | Pete Seeger |
Publisher | Bison Books |
Pages | 596 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780803292161 |
The well-known folksinger explores the appeal, traditions, significance and performers of folk music from America, Asia, Europe, and Africa
Listen: How Pete Seeger Got America Singing
Title | Listen: How Pete Seeger Got America Singing PDF eBook |
Author | Leda Schubert |
Publisher | Roaring Brook Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2017-06-13 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9781626722507 |
Listen. There was nobody like Pete Seeger. Wherever he went, he got people singing. With his head thrown back and his Adam’s apple bouncing, picking his long-necked banjo or strumming his twelve-string guitar, Pete sang old songs, new songs, new words to old songs, and songs he made up. In this gorgeously written and illustrated tribute to legendary musician and activist Pete Seeger, author Leda Schubert highlights major musical events in Mr. Seeger's life as well important moments of his fight against social injustice. From singing sold-out concerts to courageously standing against the McCarthy-era finger-pointing, Pete Seeger's life is celebrated in this bold book for young readers with gorgeous illustrations by Raúl Colón. A Neal Porter Book This title has Common Core connections.
How to Play the Five-String Banjo
Title | How to Play the Five-String Banjo PDF eBook |
Author | Pete Seeger |
Publisher | Omnibus Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1997-02 |
Genre | Banjo |
ISBN | 9780825600241 |
This is the basic manual for banjo players at any level. Covers all the fundamentals of strumming, hammering-on, and pulling-off. Includes folk and traditional songs all with melody line, lyrics, and banjo accompaniment, and solos in standard notation and tablature.