Who has seen the documentary "Pete Seeger: The Power of Song?"

[groovedaddy]

I saw it a few days ago and thought it was great. I thought I knew who Pete was until I saw this film. What a tremendous person!

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Is there an American musical artist more lovable than Pete Seeger Noun 1. Pete Seeger - United States folk singer who was largely responsible for the interest in folk music in the 1960s (born in 1919)
Peter Seeger, Seeger , or more deserving of the honors heaped on him by institutions (such as the Kennedy Center) and fellow performers? Certainly, the House on Un-American Activities Committee didn't care for him. His left-leaning (read: Communist) politics earned him a congressional contempt citation for refusing to cooperate with the Committee in 1955. (The charge was later thrown out by the courts.) His dream of Johnny Apple-seeding the U.S. labor movement with songs celebrating "work and freedom" was never fully realized, but he's had some astonishinga·ston·ish
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..... Click the link for more information. successes in his long career, chronicled in Jim Brown's often lyrical documentary with generous helpings of music from Pete and his peers. His family and a parade of stars (including Bob Dylan Noun 1. Bob Dylan - United States songwriter noted for his protest songs (born in 1941)
Dylan and Arlo Guthrie) help tell the story. Historian Ron Radosh reminisces about studying banjo banjo, stringed musical instrument, with a body resembling a tambourine. The banjo consists of a hoop over which a skin membrane is stretched; it has a long, often fretted neck and four to nine strings, which are plucked with a pick or the fingers. with Pete, but his critical remarks on Seeger's fellow traveling are absent. We might have learned that Seeger's voice was silent about victims of Stalinist and post-Stalinist repression, but rain isn't allowed to rail on this parade. Political blind spots aside, Seeger's activism for peace, civil rights, and the environment are as monumental as his music. Now in his late eighties, he's shown handing out leaflets against Bush's war in Iraq. The "folk revival" has a lineage going back to Pete's recordings, instruction manuals, and appearances at schools and summer camps across the land (important when the blacklist (1) A list of e-mail addresses of known spammers. See spam, spam filter, Blacklist of Internet Advertisers, greylisting and blackholing. Contrast with white list.

(2) A list of Web sites that are considered off limits or dangerous. kept him off radio and television). Artists as diverse as Bruce Springsteen and Neil Diamond acknowledge his influence--and the millions of us who attended his concerts and listened to his recordings still feel the power of his songs. (Distributed by the Weinstein Company, 345 Hudson Street, 13th Floor, New York New York, state, United States
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http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Peter+Seeger:+the+power+of+song.-a0177028131

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Seeger

[madfloridian]

1. Emusic.com has many of his albums, even his children's music.

http://www.emusic.com/artist/Pete-Seeger-MP3-Download/10561740.html

[ixion]

2. I saw it a couple weeks back... it was fantastic

Seeger is one of the true American Heroes, IMO. :applause: :woohoo:

[groovedaddy]

6. I agree...true courage!

[RoccoR5955]

3. Seen it, I was probably in it!

Well, in the audience at least.
Seriously, I personally know just about all of the main characters of that film, and Pete is a dear friend.
I have heard the stories from that film, time and again. I even have seen many of the clips, in Toshi's (Pete's wife) archives. She is one of the main reasons why Pete is who he is today. I asked his grandson, Kitama, how they got Toshi to elaborate so much in the film. Well he told me, that knowing all the stories, he simply recollected them with some incorrect details, and Toshi proceeded to tell him the ENTIRE story, only the way it REALLY was.
If you love Pete, you should give his wife, Toshi, a ton of credit. She is his anchor, and I love her. Probably more than Pete!

[groovedaddy]

4. I think the film does give Toshi that credit (or people interviewed in the film).

The consensus opinion seemed to be that Pete wouldn't be who is without her. I think he knows that too!
I heard him perform at several demonstrations I went to in D.C. and elsewhere.

[madokie]

5. I'll make it a point too now

[BridgeTheGap]

7. I loved the scene when Pete is before HUAC and tells them that his political

opinions are none of their business! The guy has chutzpa!
I also liked the scene with Johnny Cash.

[RoccoR5955]

8. As a matter of fact, Pete pled the FIRST amendment,

where others pleaded the FIFTH amendment.
The difference is that the First amendment grants freedom of assembly, and who he associates with is his business, not the government's. The Fifth amendment, prevents someone from testifying against oneself.

Pete has the chutzpah of a true New Yorker, which he is, and has been for all of his long life. He also has Toshi, a NYC girl, who grew up in Greenwich Village, by his side. You wanna see chutzpah? Check in with Toshi some time, her middle name is chutzpah!