Pete Seeger

Pete Seeger made folk song a public instrument of memory, protest, education, and communal singing. The musician from the USA carried traditional songs, union songs, civil-rights repertory, and new compositions into schools, rallies, records, and television. Where Have All the Flowers Gone?, If I Had a Hammer, and Turn! Turn! Turn! connect him with folk and 20th-century political song.

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