"To Everything There is a Season"; Pete Seeger and the Power of Song
ISBN: 9780195324822 | 019532482X
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 8/11/2010
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Pete Seeger became one of the nation's most influential activists and folk singers as the folk music revival, often revolving around protest movements, unfolded in the 1960s. This text uses Pete Seeger's life and music as a frame of reference to discuss the important role popular music playedduring the various protest movements in the 20th century. Seeger's life reflected the turbulence of his times and his songs sounded the spirit of the issues that he felt mattered most. Over the course of his long life, he composed songs we still sing today:... MORE
Allan M. Winkler is Distinguished Professor of History at Miami University in Ohio. He has also taught at Yale University and the University of Oregon and, for one year each, at the University of Helsinki in Finland, the University of Amsterdam in The Netherlands, and the University of Nairobi in Kenya. His books include The Politics of Propaganda: The Office of War Information, 1942-1945, Home Front U.S.A.: America during World War II, Life Under a Cloud: American Anxiety about the Atom, and Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Making of Modern America.
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