Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
Pete Seeger: The Power of Song. 2007. (DVD 781.62073 Pete)
Pete Seeger has combined folk music and radical activism longer and more forcefully than anyone else in the country. From the 1940s when he helped revive the American folk tradition (writing or co-writing "Where Have All the Flowers Gone," "If I Had a Hammer," and "Turn, Turn, Turn"), to the 1950s when he and the Weavers topped the charts and annoyed the House Un-American Activities Committee, through the next five decades when he appeared at events as diverse as Woodstock and Barack Obama's presidential inauguration, Seeger has served as choirmaster, conscience, and agent of social change.
This documentary covers Seeger's upbringing, musical roots, and boldly "un-American" activities. It underscores the crucial role played by his wife Toshi, and features great interviews with Dylan, Springsteen, Paxton, Baez, Bonnie Raitt, Arlo Guthrie, Natalie Maines, and Peter Yarrow. Seeger is in his nineties now. With luck he'll vibrate for a few more years as "America's tuning fork." (Jeff B., Reader's Services)
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