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Let your voice be heard : the life and times of Pete Seeger / Anita Silvey.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2016]Description: 104 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780547330129
  • 054733012X
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Contents:
The beginnings -- Mentors and school -- Choosing music -- Becoming a performer -- Success at last -- Under suspicion -- Fighting back -- Joining forces -- Singing together to save our planet -- Pete Seeger's legacy.
Summary: Pete Seeger was an internationally honored folk musician and political radical who devoted his life to furthering humanitarian causes and getting people to sing. This biography traces his musical career, including the period when he was blacklisted by the House Committee on Un-American Activities, and the growth of his conviction that freedom and justice had to be defended and that the power of song could be used to fight back when these ideals were threatened.
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Dr. James Carlson Library Children's Biography Seeger, P. S587 Available 33111008185304
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's Biography Seeger, P. S587 Available 33111008448785
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Pete Seeger, the iconic folk musician and multiple Grammy winner, discovered early in life that what he wanted to do was make music. His amazing career as singer, songwriter, and banjo player spanned seven decades, and included both low points (being charged with contempt of Congress) and highlights (receiving the Kennedy Center Honor from President Clinton). An activist and protester, Seeger crusaded for the rights of labor, the rights of people of color, and the First Amendment right to let his voice be heard, and launched the successful campaign to clean up the Hudson River. Archival photographs and prints, source notes, bibliography, index.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 96-98) and index.

The beginnings -- Mentors and school -- Choosing music -- Becoming a performer -- Success at last -- Under suspicion -- Fighting back -- Joining forces -- Singing together to save our planet -- Pete Seeger's legacy.

Pete Seeger was an internationally honored folk musician and political radical who devoted his life to furthering humanitarian causes and getting people to sing. This biography traces his musical career, including the period when he was blacklisted by the House Committee on Un-American Activities, and the growth of his conviction that freedom and justice had to be defended and that the power of song could be used to fight back when these ideals were threatened.

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