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Pete Seeger: How Can I Keep From Singing? reveals an inside history of American folk music’s most famous and controversial performer in three, one-hour documentaries with music and historic audio, heard on PRI stations coast-to-coast. A companion to the print biography How Can I Keep From Singing?:The Ballad of Pete Seeger.
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- Program I: Origins: How did a Harvard-educated boy become a radical, hitchhiking, banjo-playing, political activist? Program I explores Seeger’s youth and America’s folk revival of the 1930s and ’40s.
- Program II: Folk Songs and Ballads: This program evokes the exciting folk music revival of the 1950s and ’60s and the role Seeger played in it. It presents Seeger’s dramatic struggle to make his voice heard despite blacklists and congressional investigations.
- Program III: Topical and Protest Songs: America’s tradition of singing out for social change, including music of the Civil Rights, anti-war, and environmental movements.
