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Pete Seeger: ‘To Everything, There Is a Season’
Asked by HUAC if he had sung for Communists, Pete replied: ‘I have sung in hobo jungles, and I have sung for the Rockefellers, and I am proud that I have never refused to sing for anybody.’ By Steve Russell … Continue reading
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Pete Seeger: A life that enriched ‘you and me’
The world has been diminished by his passing, just as it was enriched by his life. By Lamar W. Hankins | The Rag Blog | February 4, 2014 Several weeks ago, I began writing a column I intended to publish … Continue reading
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Tagged American Musicians, Deaths, Folk Music, Folksingers, Lamar W. Hankins, Obituary, Peace Activists, Pete Seeger, Rag Bloggers, Woody Guthrie
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Progressives need to remember that history is complicated
In the words of Pete Seeger, “Though it’s darkest before the dawn, These thoughts keep us moving on…” By Harry Targ | The Rag Blog | January 28, 2014 [This essay by Harry Targ first appeared at The Rag Blog … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Arlo Guthrie, Folk Music, Harry Targ, New Left, Pete Seeger, Progressive Movement, Rag Bloggers, Sixties, Social Change
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Remembering Pete and Toshi Seeger
So long, Pete & Toshi. It’s been amazingly great to know you. By Harvey Wasserman | The Rag Blog | January 28, 2014 [Also see Rag Blog remembrances of Pete Seeger by Steve Russell, Lamar Hankins, and Harry Targ.] Toshi … Continue reading
Harry Targ : Culture and the Cuban Experience
The Cuban band Sierra Maestra was formed at the University of Havana in 1976.Economics, politics, and culture:The Cuban experience Culture can be revolutionary when it expresses pain, implies a better life, and extends the experiences of some to others… By … Continue reading
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Tagged Cuba, Cuban Music, Culture, Harry Targ, Jose Marti, Latin America, Pete Seeger, Sierra Maestra
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Harry Targ : Sometimes We Have to Sing
The banks are made of marble: Sometimes we have to sing By Harry Targ / The Rag Blog / August 10, 2011 Fred was dating a young woman who gave him the two Weavers Carnegie Hall albums for Chanukah in … Continue reading
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Tagged Folk Music, Harry Targ, Pete Seeger, The Weavers, Woody Guthrie
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Harry Targ : History is Complicated
Arlo Guthrie and Pete Seeger. Image from Last.fm.What progressives need to know:History is complicated Though it’s darkest before the dawnThese thoughts keep us moving on… By Harry Targ / The Rag Blog / October 20, 2010 I became a radical … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Arlo Guthrie, Harry Targ, New Left, Pete Seeger, Progressive Movement
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Harvey Wasserman : Pete Seeger Sings for Solartopia!
Pete Seeger sings for Solartopia! By Harvey Wasserman / The Rag Blog / August 3, 2010 See Video and Lyrics to ‘God’s Counting on Me,’ Pete Seeger’s song about the BP oil spill, Below. “We’ve got a country full of … Continue reading
Dick Flacks : Pete Seeger’s Project
Celebrating Pete Seeger:Our political troubador More than any other individual, he had conceived and fostered a tradition of protest song that drew from a number of cultural roots, had significant political consequence, and reshaped the forms and content of popular … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Blacklist, Civil Rights Movement, Communist Party, Folk Music, McCarthyism, Music, Pete Seeger, Social Movements, The Left
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Paul Robeson : Sixty Years After Peekskill
Paul Robeson. Photo from Rutgers Special Collections and University Archives.Remembering Paul Robeson:Sixty years after the Peekskill Riots By Harry Targ / The Rag Blog / September 4, 2009 On September 4, 1949, an angry crowd surrounded the 20,000 friends of … Continue reading
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Tagged African-American, American History, Entertainers, Pete Seeger, Progressives, Red-Baiting, The Left
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Pete Seeger and our Progressive Culture
Pete Seeger and Bruce Springsteen sing “This Land is Your Land” at the Barack Obama inaugural celebration at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., Jan.18, 2009. Photo by Mandel Ngan / AFP / Getty Images. The culture provides a way … Continue reading
Pete Seeger : This Land is Your Land
The video we originally posted here was removed because of copyright claims from HBO. Steve Russell found another version. So enjoy.Pete Seeger — joined by Bruce Springsteen – Sings ‘This Land is Your Land’ at Inaugural Concert, Jan. 18, 2009 … Continue reading
