“To Everything There is a Season”: Pete Seeger and the Power of Song (New Narratives in American History)

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Writer or coauthor of such legendary songs as “If I Had a Hammer,” “Where Have The entire Flowers Gone?” and “Turn, Turn, Turn,” Pete Seeger is the most influential folk singer in the history of the USA. In “To Everything There Is a Season”: Pete Seeger and the Power of Song, Allan Winkler describes how Seeger applied his musical talents to support conditions for less fortunate people in every single place. This book uses Seeger’s long life and wonderful songs to reflect on the important role folk music played in quite a lot of protest movements of the twentieth century.

A tireless supporter of union organization in the 1930s and 1940s, Seeger joined the Communist Party, performing his songs with banjo and guitar accompaniment to promote worker solidarity. In the 1950s, he found himself under attack all over the Red Scare for his radical past. In the 1960s, he became the minstrel of the civil rights movement, focusing its energy with songs that inspired protestors and challenged the nation’s patterns of racial discrimination. Toward the end of the decade, he turned his musical talents to resisting the war in Vietnam, and again drew fire from those who attacked his dissent as treason. In any case, in the 1970s, he lent his voice to the growing environmental movement by leading the drive to clean up the Hudson River. The book seeks to answer such fundamental questions as: What was the source of Seeger’s appeal? How did he capture the attention and affection of people all over the world? And why is song one of these powerful medium?

Richly researched and crisply written, “To Everything There Is a Season”: Pete Seeger and the Power of Song is an ideal supplement for U.S. history survey courses, as well as twentieth-century U.S. history and history of American folk music courses.

To purchase Pete Seeger songs discussed in the text, visit the following link for an iTunes playlist compiled by Oxford University Press:

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