How Can I Keep from Singing?: The Ballad of Pete Seeger

How Can I Keep from Singing?: The Ballad of Pete Seeger - Paperback

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How Can I Keep from Singing?: The Ballad of Pete Seeger - Paperback

How Can I Keep from Singing?: The Ballad of Pete Seeger - Paperback

by David King Dunaway
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Book Overview

How Can I Keep from Singing? is the compelling story of how the son of a respectable Puritan family became a consummate performer and American rebel. Updated with new research and interviews, unpublished photographs, and thoughtful comments from Pete Seeger himself, this is an inside history of the man Carl Sandburg called "America's Tuning Fork." In the only biography on Seeger, David Dunaway parts the curtains on his life.

Who is this rail-thin, eighty-eight-year-old with the five-string banjo, whose performances have touched millions of people for more than seven decades? Bob Dylan called him a saint. Joan Baez said, "We all owe our careers to him." But Seeger's considerable musical achievements were overshadowed by political controversy when he became perhaps the most blacklisted performer in American history. He was investigated for sedition, harassed by the FBI and the CIA, picketed, and literally stoned by conservative groups. Still, he sang.
Today, Seeger remains an icon of conscience and culture, and his classic antiwar songs, sung by Bruce Springsteen and millions of others, live again in the movement against foreign wars. His life holds lessons for surviving repressive times and for turning to music to change the world.

"This biography is a beauty. It captures not only the life of the bard but the world of which he sings."
-Studs Terkel

"A fine and meticulous biography . . . Dunaway has taken [Seeger's] materials and woven them into a detailed, interesting, and well-written narrative of a most fascinating life."
-American Music

"An extraordinary tale of an extraordinary man [that] will intrigue not only his legions of followers but everyone interested in one man's battles and victories."
-Chicago Sun-Times
ISBN9780345506085
Author David King Dunaway
PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
GenreBiography
FormatPaperback
PublishedMarch 2008
LanguageENG- English
Pages560
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About David King Dunaway

David King Dunaway is professor of English at the Universities of New Mexico and Sao Paulo, Brazil and the author or editor of 10 historical and biographical books, including How Can I Keep From Singing: Pete Seeger, Oral History: An Interdisciplinary Anthology, and Huxley in Hollywood. He's also coauthor of Writing the Southwest, and author of the anthology, Route 66 Companion. His books have been translated and serialized internationally, and his essays published in The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and the Virginia Quarterly Review. His book tours have included appearances on PBS, CNBC, and CSPAN's Book TV, as well as dozens of regional and local stations. He resides in Los Ranchos, New Mexico.

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