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Pete Seeger: The Inside History
Monday, July 07, 2008
10 pm Saturday
Pete Seeger: How Can I Keep From Singing?
A three-part series revealing the inside history of American folk music’s most famous and controversial performer.
10 pm Saturday, July 12: 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.
10 pm Saturday, July 19: Folk Songs and Ballads
This program evokes the exciting folk music revival of the 1950s and ‘60s and the role Seeger played in it.
10 pm Saturday, July 26: Topical and Protest Songs
The final part of the series looks at the tradition of singing out for social change, and how the music of the Civil Rights, anti-war, and environmental movements galvanized Seeger’s life.
