Pete Seeger

The Significance of Pete Seeger to American History Pete Seeger is an extremely talented artist who is very well known for his contributions to folk music. Pete Seeger is an absolute inspiration to many people around the world today. Not only was Pete Seeger just a singer/songwriter, he was also an important political activist, the author of several dozen books, an environmentalist as well as a peace advocator. He plays a very significant role in terms of historical influences. As a man of many

successors of the song, Pete Seeger. (It is important to mention that Eugène Pottier (born in France) was the original author of the song who composed it somewhere at the end of the 19th century, and due to its popularity, has gone all around different musicians afterward). Of course, Mr. Bragg could not resist the offer, and so he created an English version. It is well known that sometimes the translation changes and varies from artist to artist, yet two (Billy Bragg and Pete Seeger) collaborated so there

Pete Seeger In a 1979 interview for Frets magazine Pete Seeger expressed the driving force of his music in one word--responsibility (Hood 30). In his view there are no causeless songs; each one has a message. Seeger dedicated his life to challenging the status quo and combating the establishment with his favorite weapon, the banjo. Inscribed on his banjo were the words “This machine surrounds hate and forces it to surrender”.  Pete Seeger became one of the leaders of the folk revival, rousing his

Musician, song-writer, and social activist, Pete Seeger wrote the hit “Turn! Turn! Turn!,” which was popularly covered by the American rock band, The Byrds. Seeger adapted the lyrics from Ecclesiastes chapter 3. Before delving deeper into the meaning of Ecclesiastes 3 in class, I would have seen little to no difference between the meaning of the Bible and the meaning of the Seeger song. For me initially, both the song and chapter expressed the notion of life’s beautiful and dark times: the time for

During the 1940’s I will be taking about how Pete Seeger became a successful musician, and how he made a difference in the music industry. Pete Seeger was a smart man when it came to politics and being a musician, he got accepted to Harvard University, although he wasn’t your average college student; he couldn’t study which lead him into feeling his classes and dropping out. After Seeger dropped out of school he went into politics, Seeger always had a thing for music and politics; he had a lot of

listeners. One famous protest song was Turn, Turn, Turn. The song was sung by The Byrds in the mid-1960s. The song was originally sung and composed by Pete Seeger, who was a very famous singer, songwriter, and activist. Pete Seeger, The Byrds, and Turn, Turn, Turn were all great contributors to the Protest Song Movement. Pete Seeger was born on May 3, 1919. Pete was born and raised in a musical influenced family. He had an extensive career as a songwriter and a social activist. He was also a civil rights

“We Shall Overcome” by Peter Seeger, many would describe to be the anthem for the Civil Rights Movement or 1960s Civil Rights Movement (sometimes referred to as the "African-American Civil Rights Movement" although the term "African American" was not widely used in the 1950s and 1960s). It encompasses social movements in the United States whose goals were to end racial segregation and discrimination against African Americans and to secure legal recognition and federal protection of the citizenship

A History of Protest Music – Revolutionary War to the 1960s Protest music in the United States dates back to the 19th century. This protest music focused around subjects that were topical for the time period. Among these topics were the Civil War. Another topic was slavery, and its abolition. A final topic was women’s suffrage. A famous group of protest singers was the Hutchinson Family Singers. Their notoriety, which spanned the mid-19th century, began in 1839. Their songs about abolition were

for centuries in the United States, but one decade that they are closely associated with is the 1960s. This was a time when America was faced with much controversy and division. The protest music performed by folk artist and social activist Peter Seeger empowered oppressed individuals during the 1960s to stand against social norms by acknowledging social issues in society, advocating his personal beliefs, and convincing his audience that it was acceptable to have varying opinions. The 1960s were

The Many Voices of Folk Music To some the term folk music was ‘the music of peasants’. Pete Seeger, who was nicknamed the “father of American folk music,” by Bruce Springsteen, did not like that term, because he was no peasant. Seeger marched with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr and led environmental campaigns. According to the video, Seeger said that participating is the main thing in his life, and it is our only hope. I liked the part where he said that education should not just