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In Honor of Pete Seeger
Pete Seeger is 90 years old this year (2009) and in celebration, we are featuring a selected list of books, scores, CDs and DVDs available for check-out here in the Music Department to entice you to brush up on his many contributions to American culture in the 20th century and in particular, American folk song. You can also listen to albums by Pete Seeger online from American Song (all you need is a CLP library card).
We have included materials on and by some of his great compatriots also. Following the list, you will find some subject headings to use in the Library's catalog to find more materials on protest songs and other socially driven music traditions.
Pete Seeger
DVDs
DVD ML 420 .S445 P48 2008x
This documentary looks at the life of controversial musician, activist, and environmentalist Pete Seeger, and how he used his songs to promote social change.
DVD M 1630.18 .S4685 P483-486 2005x
Rainbow Quest was a mid-1960s U.S. television series devoted to folk music. Using the setting of a back porch, it featured Pete Seeger in an informal picking party with guest musicians from bluegrass, country, folk, blues, gospel and world music.
DVD M 1627 .F46 2005x
Rare home movies of musicians from around the world filmed by the Seegers from 1957-1964. Includes the McPeake Family, filmed in their living room in Ireland, and African-American worksongs filmed in a Texas prison.
How to Play the 5-String Banjo
DVD MT 568 .H65 2004x
Pete Seeger demonstrates a variety of banjo techniques (up-picking, frailing, whamming, double-thumbing, tremolo, 6/8 time, calypso rhythm, hammering-on, pulling-off, two-and three-finger picking) he uses in a wide range of music.
DVD QH 104.5 .H83 T553 2007
Presents the story of efforts led by folk singer Pete Seeger to clean up the Hudson River, which by the mid-1960s had become one of America's most polluted rivers.
Return to the topCompact Discs
Seeger, Pete
At 89
COMPACT DISC Fo See 34601
You can also listen to this CD on your computer with streaming audio from American Song. (CLP library card required for remote access.)
Seeger, Pete
If I Had a Hammer: Songs of Hope and Struggle
COMPACT DISC Fo See 17926
Listen to this via streaming audio (CLP library card required).
Where Have All the Flowers Gone: The Songs of Pete Seeger
COMPACT DISC Fo See 11716
Listen to this via streaming audio (CLP library card required).
Biographies
"To Everything There is a Season" Pete Seeger and the Power of Song
ML420 .S445 W56 2009
Scores and Song Books
The Clearwater Songbook
rqM 1629 .C53x (reference only)
Songs sung on the Hudson River's sloop, Clearwater.
M 1629 .L83 H4
American folk songs of the Depression and the labor movement of the 1930's compiled by Alan Lomax with music transcribed and edited by Pete Seeger and notes by Woody Guthrie.
M 1977 .C5 R56 1988
Words, chords and sources to 1200 songs for group singing anywhere, anytime
American Favorite Ballads: Tunes and Songs as Sung by Peter Seeger
M 1629 .S578 A5
Pete's Folksong Compatriots
Books
Making People's Music: Moe Asch and Folkways Records
ML 429 .A83 G65 1998
Moe Asch was the founder of Folkways Records and its director for nearly forty years, amassing a catalog of almost 2,200 recordings of American folk songs and world music.
Compact Discs
Springsteen, Bruce
We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions
COMPACT DISC Fo Spr 29205
Weavers
The Best of the Weavers
COMPACT DISC Fo Wea 31238
DVDs
DVD ML 420 .D98 N6 2005x
Traces Bob Dylan's journey from his roots in Minnesota, to his early days in Greenwich Village, to his tumultuous ascent to pop stardom in 1966.
Additional Subject Headings
For further exploration of protest songs, work songs and so forth, these are some of the subjects you might want to search:
- Civil Rights Movements - United States - Songs and Music
- Labor movement -- United States -- Songs and music
- Peace -- Songs and music -- Bibliography
- Political Ballads and Songs
- Protest Songs
- Radicalism -- Songs and Music
- Railroads - United States - Songs and Music
- War songs -- United States -- Bibliography
- Work songs -- United States
- Working Class - United States - Songs and Music
