Peggy Seeger

Author : Peggy Seeger
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780571336814

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First Time Ever by Peggy Seeger Pdf

A SUNDAY TIMES AND TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZEPeggy Seeger is one of folk music's most influential artists and songwriters. Born in New York City in 1935, she enjoyed a childhood steeped in music and left-wing politics - they remain her lifeblood. After college, she travelled to Russia and China - against US advice - before arriving in London, where she met the man with whom she would raise three children and share the next thirty-three years: Ewan MacColl. Together, they helped lay the foundations of the British folk revival, through the influential Critics Group and the landmark BBC Radio Ballads series. And as Ewan's muse, she inspired one of the twentieth century's most popular love songs, 'The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face'. With a clear eye and generous spirit, Peggy writes of a rollercoaster life - of birth and abortion, sex and infidelity, devotion and betrayal - in a luminous, beautifully realised account.

Author : Jean R. Freedman
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780252099212

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Peggy Seeger by Jean R. Freedman Pdf

Born into folk music's first family, Peggy Seeger has blazed her own trail artistically and personally. Jean Freedman draws on a wealth of research and conversations with Seeger to tell the life story of one of music's most charismatic performers and tireless advocates. Here is the story of Seeger's multifaceted career, from her youth to her pivotal role in the American and British folk revivals, from her instrumental virtuosity to her tireless work on behalf of environmental and feminist causes, from wry reflections on the U.K. folk scene to decades as a songwriter. Freedman also delves into Seeger's fruitful partnership with Ewan MacColl and a multitude of contributions which include creating the renowned Festivals of Fools, founding Blackthorne Records, masterminding the legendary Radio Ballads documentaries, and mentoring performers in the often-fraught atmosphere of The Critics Group. Bracingly candid and as passionate as its subject, Peggy Seeger is the first book-length biography of a life set to music.

Author : Ray Allen,Ellie M. Hisama
Publisher : University Rochester Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Music
ISBN : 158046212X

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Ruth Crawford Seeger's Worlds by Ray Allen,Ellie M. Hisama Pdf

Offers fresh perspectives on the life and pioneering musical activities of American composer and folk music activist Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-53). This book presents a collection of studies that reveals how innovation and tradition intertwined in surprising ways to shape the cultural landscape of twentieth-century America.

Author : Ewan Maccoll,Peggy Seeger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317292272

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Travellers' Songs from England and Scotland by Ewan Maccoll,Peggy Seeger Pdf

Originally published in 1977. The Travellers, from those living in bow-tents and horse-drawn caravans to those dwelling in motor caravans and permanent homes, are an important source of traditional music. Their society means that songs that have died out in more settled communities are preserved among them. Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, widely known as two of the founding singers of the British and American folk revivals, here display a vast fund of folklore scholarship around the songs of British travelling people. Resulting from extensive collecting in southern and southeastern England and central and northeastern Scotland in the 1960s and 70s, this book contains 130 songs with music and comprehensive notes relating them to folkloristic and historical points of interest. It includes traditional ballads and ballads of broadside origin, bawdy, tragic and humorous songs about love, work and death. Most are in English or in Scots dialect with four in Anglo-Romani.

Author : Bill C. Malone
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780807835104

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Music from the True Vine by Bill C. Malone Pdf

Music from the True Vine

Author : Peter Cox
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Documentary radio programs
ISBN : 0955187710

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Set Into Song by Peter Cox Pdf

Presents the story of a series of 8 radio documentaries, made from 1958-64 by the radical playwright and songwriter Ewan MacColl, the young musician Peggy Seeger, and the visionary radio producer Charles Parker, through their lives, their archives, and above all the recollections of participants.

Author : Ruth Crawford Seeger,Larry Polansky
Publisher : University Rochester Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Music
ISBN : 158046095X

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"The Music of American Folk Song" and Selected Other Writings on American Folk Music by Ruth Crawford Seeger,Larry Polansky Pdf

This is the first publication of an annotated monograph by the noted composer and folksong scholar Ruth Crawford Seeger. Originally written as a foreword for the 1940 book Our Singing Country, it was considered too long and was replaced by a much shorter version. According to her stepson, Pete Seeger, when the original was not included "Ruth suffered one of the biggest disappointments of the last ten years of her life. It just killed her . . . She was trying to analyze the whole style and problem of performing this music." Along with her children Mike and Peggy Seeger, he has long desired to see this work in print as it was meant to be read. The manuscript has been edited from several varying sources by Larry Polansky, with the assistance of Seeger's biographer Judith Tick. It is divided into two sections: I. "A Note on Transcription" and II. "Notes on the Songs and on Manners of Singing." Seeger examines all aspects of the relationship between singer, song, notation, the eventual performer, and the transcriber. In Section I, Seeger develops a complex and well-organized system of notation for these songs which is meant to be both descritive (transcription as cultural preservation) and prescriptive (she intended that others would be able to perform these songs). In Section II, she provides an interpretive theory for performance of this music, and suggests how performers might make the songs "their own" through a deep knowledge of the original styles. Ruth Crawford Seeger considered this work to be both a major accomplishment and a central statement of her own ideas on the topic. Larry Polansky is Associate Professor of Music at Dartmouth College, and a well-known composer and theorist on American music. Judith Tick is Professor of Music at Northeastern University and author of the first major biography of Ruth Crawford Seeger.

Author : Ewan MacColl
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Folk songs
ISBN : UCR:31210023069865

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Ewan MacColl-Peggy Seeger Songbook by Ewan MacColl Pdf

Author : Peter Gough
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780252097010

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Sounds of the New Deal by Peter Gough Pdf

At its peak the Federal Music Project (FMP) employed nearly 16,000 people who reached millions of Americans through performances, composing, teaching, and folksong collection and transcription. In Sounds of the New Deal, Peter Gough explores how the FMP's activities in the West shaped a new national appreciation for the diversity of American musical expression. From the onset, administrators and artists debated whether to represent highbrow, popular, or folk music in FMP activities. Though the administration privileged using "good" music to educate the public, in the West local preferences regularly trumped national priorities and allowed diverse vernacular musics to be heard. African American and Hispanic music found unprecedented popularity while the cultural mosaic illuminated by American folksong exemplified the spirit of the Popular Front movement. These new musical expressions combined the radical sensibilities of an invigorated Left with nationalistic impulses. At the same time, they blended traditional patriotic themes with an awareness of the country's varied ethnic musical heritage and vast--but endangered--store of grassroots music.

Author : Norman Cazden,Herbert Haufrecht,Norman Studer
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1983-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780791498644

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Notes and Sources for Folk Songs of the Catskills by Norman Cazden,Herbert Haufrecht,Norman Studer Pdf

Notes and Sources to Folk Songs of the Catskills, also published by the State University of New York Press, is the companion volume to Folk Songs of the Catskills. It contains extensive reference notes that exemplify and support detailed citations in the commentary preceding each song. The book also includes a comprehensive list of sources, including books, broadsides or pocket songsters, disc recordings, music publications, periodicals, tape archives, and other miscellaneous material, as well as information on variants, adaptations, comments or references, texts, and tunes. These notes are designed to provide succinct reference information.

Author : Tim Smolko,Joanna Smolko
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780253056184

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Atomic Tunes by Tim Smolko,Joanna Smolko Pdf

What is the soundtrack for a nuclear war? During the Cold War, over 500 songs were written about nuclear weapons, fear of the Soviet Union, civil defense, bomb shelters, McCarthyism, uranium mining, the space race, espionage, the Berlin Wall, and glasnost. This music uncovers aspects of these world-changing events that documentaries and history books cannot. In Atomic Tunes, Tim and Joanna Smolko explore everything from the serious to the comical, the morbid to the crude, showing the widespread concern among musicians coping with the effect of communism on American society and the threat of a nuclear conflict of global proportions. Atomic Tunes presents a musical history of the Cold War, analyzing the songs that capture the fear of those who lived under the shadow of Stalin, Sputnik, mushroom clouds, and missiles.

Author : Anita Silvey
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-02
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780544826076

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Let Your Voice Be Heard by Anita Silvey Pdf

Pete Seeger, the iconic folk musician and multiple Grammy winner, discovered early in life that what he wanted to do was make music. His amazing career as singer, songwriter, and banjo player spanned seven decades, and included both low points (being charged with contempt of Congress) and highlights (receiving the Kennedy Center Honor from President Clinton). An activist and protester, Seeger crusaded for the rights of labor, the rights of people of color, and the First Amendment right to let his voice be heard, and launched the successful campaign to clean up the Hudson River. Archival photographs and prints, source notes, bibliography, index.

Author : Francis James Child
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Ballads, English
ISBN : IOWA:31858001776420

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The English and Scottish Popular Ballads by Francis James Child Pdf

Author : William Wells Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1848
Category : Abolitionists
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037988883

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The Anti-slavery Harp by William Wells Brown Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Children's songs
ISBN : LCCN:50011074

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American Folk Songs for Children in Home, School, and Nursery School by Anonim Pdf

Here are over 90 favorite folksongs, including ballads, work songs, chants, spirituals and blues, selected for children.