“How Can I Keep From Singing? The Ballad of Pete Seeger (Villard/Random House, 2008)” has been added to your cart. View cart
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For everyone who ever picked up a guitar, fiddle, or banjo, this will be a book to give and to cherish, with extensive notes, bibliography, and discography, plus an attractive photo section.
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Intimate, anecdotal, and spellbinding, Singing Out offers a fascinating oral history of North American folk music. Culled from more than 150 interviews recorded from 1976 to 2006, this captivating story cuts across a wide swath of generations and perspectives, shedding light on the musical, political, and social aspects of folk revival movements. The narrators include major folk revival figures, including Pete Seeger, Bernice Reagon, Phil Ochs, Mary Travers, Don McLean, Judy Collins, Arlo Guthrie, Ry Cooder, and Holly Near.
