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This is the basic manual for banjo players at any level. Covers all
the fundamentals of strumming, hammering-on, and pulling-off.
Includes folk and traditional songs all with melody line, lyrics,
and banjo accompaniment, and solos in standard notation and
tablature.
Folk singer and labor organizer John Handcox was born to illiterate
sharecroppers, but went on to become one of the most beloved folk
singers of the prewar labor movement. This beautifully told oral
history gives us Handcox in his own words, recounting a journey
that began in the Deep South and went on to shape the labor music
tradition.
Long an icon of American musical and political life, Pete Seeger
has written eloquently in books and for magazines, activist
movements, and union newsletters. Although he has never written an
autobiography, his life story is nowhere more personally chronicled
than in the private writings, documents, and letters stored for
decades in his family barn. In "Pete Seeger in His Own Words," we
hear directly from Seeger through the widest array of sources
letters, notes to himself, published articles, rough drafts,
stories, and poetry creating the most intimate picture yet
available of Seeger as a musician, an activist, and a family man in
his own words and from his own perspective. From letters to his
mother written when he was a 13-year-old desiring his first banjo
to speculations on the future, this book covers the passions,
personalities, and experiences of a lifetime of struggle the
pre-WWII labor movement, the Communist Party, Woody Guthrie, the
blacklist, the Civil Rights movement, Martin Luther King, the
struggle against the war in Vietnam, Bob Dylan, travels around the
world, cleaning up the Hudson River, Granny D, Fidel Castro, Bill
Clinton, and countless uncelebrated activists with whom Seeger has
worked and sung. The portrait that emerges is not a saint, not a
martyr, but a flesh-and-blood man, struggling to understand his
gift, his time, and his place. Click Here to listen to Pete
Seeger's interview on WNYC with Brian Lehrer "Hearing Pete Seeger,"
Alec Wilkinson's review for "The New Yorker" Culture Desk on Pete
Seeger's latest event in Bryant Park. An article by the New Haven
Register."
Lyrics and guitar chords for nearly 1,200 songs are arranged in a
compact, easy-to-use format in this comprehensive collection. Folk
revival favorites; Broadway show tunes; Beatles' songs; hymns,
spirituals, and gospel standards; songs about peace, freedom,
labor, and the environment are among the types of songs included.
This revised and retypeset large-print version of the enormously
popular songbook makes this essential resource easy to read and
useful in leading large and small groups.
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Hard Hitting Songs for Hard-Hit People (Paperback)
Alan. Lomax; Introduction by Woody Guthrie; Afterword by Pete Seeger; Foreword by John Steinbeck; Introduction by Nora Guthrie
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Twenty-seven years in the making (1940–67), this tapestry of
nearly two hundred American popular and protest songs was created
by three giants of performance and musical research: Alan Lomax,
indefatigable collector and preserver; Woody Guthrie, performer and
prolific balladeer; and Pete Seeger, entertainer and educator who
has introduced three generations of Americans to their musical
heritage. In his afterword, Pete Seeger recounts the long history
of collecting and publishing this anthology of Depression-era,
union-hopeful, and New Deal melodies. With characteristic modesty,
he tells us what’s missing and what’s wrong with the
collection. But more important, he tells us what’s right and why
it still matters, noting songs that have become famous the world
over: “Union Maid,” “Which Side Are You On?,” “Worried
Man Blues,” “Midnight Special,” and “Tom Joad.” “Now,
at the turn of the century, the millennium, what’s the future of
these songs?” he asks. “Music is one of the things that will
save us. Future songwriters can learn from the honesty, the
courage, the simplicity, and the frankness of these hard-hitting
songs. And not just songwriters. We can all learn.” In addition
to 123 photographs and 195 songs, this edition features an
introductory note by Nora Guthrie, the daughter of Woody Guthrie
and overseer of the Woody Guthrie Foundation.
Descended from African American slaves, Native Americans, and white
slaveowners, John Handcox was born to a family of poor Arkansas
sharecroppers at one of the hardest times to be black in America.
Over the first few decades of the twentieth century, he survived
attempted lynchings, floods, droughts, and the ravages of the Great
Depression to organize black and white farmers alike on behalf of
the Southern Tenant Farmers Union. He also became one of the most
beloved folk singers of the prewar labor movement, composing songs
such as Roll the Union On and There Is Mean Things Happening in
this Land that bridged racial divides and kept the spirits of
striking workers high. Though he withdrew from the public eye for
nearly forty years, missing the folk boom of the 1960s, he
resurfaced decades later - just in time to denounce the policies of
the Reagan administration in song - and his work was embraced by
new generations of labor activists and folk music devotees. This
fascinating and beautifully told oral history gives us John Handcox
in his own words, recounting a journey that began in a
sharecropper's shack in the Deep South and went on to shape the
labor music tradition, all amid the tangled and troubled history of
the United States in the twentieth century.
Long an icon of American musical and political life, Pete Seeger
has written eloquently in books and for magazines, activist
movements, and union newsletters. Although he has never written an
autobiography, his life story is nowhere more personally chronicled
than in the private writings, documents, and letters stored for
decades in his family barn. In "Pete Seeger: His Life In His Own
Words," we hear directly from Seeger through the widest array of
sources letters, notes to himself, published articles, rough
drafts, stories, and poetry creating the most intimate picture yet
available of Seeger as a musician, an activist, and a family man in
his own words and from his own perspective. From letters to his
mother written when he was a 13-year-old desiring his first banjo
to speculations on the future, this book covers the passions,
personalities, and experiences of a lifetime of struggle the
pre-WWII labor movement, the Communist Party, Woody Guthrie, the
blacklist, the Civil Rights movement, Martin Luther King, the
struggle against the war in Vietnam, Bob Dylan, travels around the
world, cleaning up the Hudson River, Granny D, Fidel Castro, Bill
Clinton, and countless uncelebrated activists with whom Seeger has
worked and sung. The portrait that emerges is not a saint, not a
martyr, but a flesh-and-blood man, struggling to understand his
gift, his time, and his place.
"How Can I Keep from Singing?" is the compelling story of how the
son of a respectable Puritan family became a consummate performer
and American rebel. Updated with new research and interviews,
unpublished photographs, and thoughtful comments from Pete Seeger
himself, this is an inside history of the man Carl Sandburg called
"America's Tuning Fork." In the only biography on Seeger, David
Dunaway parts the curtains on his life.
Who is this rail-thin, eighty-eight-year-old with the five-string
banjo, whose performances have touched millions of people for more
than seven decades? Bob Dylan called him a saint. Joan Baez said,
"We all owe our careers to him." But Seeger's considerable musical
achievements were overshadowed by political controversy when he
became perhaps the most blacklisted performer in American history.
He was investigated for sedition, harassed by the FBI and the CIA,
picketed, and literally stoned by conservative groups. Still, he
sang.
Today, Seeger remains an icon of conscience and culture, and his
classic antiwar songs, sung by Bruce Springsteen and millions of
others, live again in the movement against foreign wars. His life
holds lessons for surviving repressive times and for turning to
music to change the world.
"This biography is a beauty. It captures not only the life of the
bard but the world of which he sings."
-Studs Terkel
"A fine and meticulous biography . . . Dunaway has taken [Seeger's]
materials and woven them into a detailed, interesting, and
well-written narrative of a most fascinating life."
"-American Music"
"An extraordinary tale of an extraordinary man [that] will intrigue
not only his legions of followers but everyone interested in one
man's battles and victories."
"-Chicago Sun-Times"
During the Great Depression, Lee Hays, the son of a Southern
Methodist minister, used his music to life the hearts of
sharecroppers and miners and union organizers. He helped bring
black music to America's consciousness. He could make people laugh
in times when there seemed little to laugh about. An Arkansas
traveler and radical minstrel, he commented wryly on events and
impaled reactionary southern congressmen on their own words. A kind
of Mark Twain of the left, people said. But Lee Hays, for all his
great size and talents and humor, was also a difficult man, plagued
by self-doubts and a driving need to discombobulate any person or
group that struck him as self-satisfied."" "Lonesome Traveler" is
the story of a prodigious talent with a zeal for changing the
world. With Pete Seeger he formed the popular folksinging group the
Weavers, which sang songs of social justice just as a tidal wave of
red-hunting hit America. The rest of his legendary story will
anger, touch, and delight.
Cy Adler authored the first complete guide to walking from the
southern tip of Manhattan at Battery Park all the way up to Bear
Mountain near West Point. With all the new changes to the West Side
of Manhattan since that guide was published, Walking the Hudson,
the new and fully revised guide to this fabulous route, will be
much appreciated by walkers, history buffs, and anyone who wants to
experience this great area up close and under their own power. The
route is nicely broken into segments of 2 9 miles each so one can
walk as little or as much of the route as desired at a time. The
average walker can finish the entire route in two to four days.
PERHAPS BEST known for Broadside, the influential magazine they
founded in 1962, Agnes "Sis" Cunningham and Gordon Friesen have
long been renowned figures on the American left. In this book,
these two dedicated social activists -- Sis the folk musician and
Gordon the radical journalist -- offer a spirited account of their
personal and political odyssey. The story is illustrated with
numerous photographs and drawings.
Born into poverty in rural Oklahoma, further shaped by the
hardships of the "dustbowl" Depression years, Sis and Gordon were
already committed to radical causes when they met and married in
1941. A short time later they moved to New York City, where they
befriended Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie. Sis joined the folk
protest group the Almanac Singers, and Gordon continued his work as
a journalist.
Although blacklisted for their political views during the
McCarthy era, Sis and Gordon persevered and eventually launched
Broadside, which they continued to produce for almost twenty years.
The magazine was instrumental in promoting the careers of many
singer-songwriters, publishing the first works of such artists as
Bob Dylan, Janis Ian, Phil Ochs, Buffy Sainte-Marie, and Tom
Paxton, as well as the works of more established figures, including
Malvina Reynolds and Pete Seeger. Indeed, Broadside helped give
birth to a musical revival that energized the country and forged a
vital link between the folk music of the 1930s and 1940s and the
urban folk revivalists of the 1960s and 1970s.
The Spanish Civil War served as an ideological and physical
battleground for visionary Americans wishing to combat the spread
of fascism. Harry Fisher was one such idealist who became a solider
in the famed Abraham Lincoln Brigade, the American contingent of
international volunteers dedicated to defeating Franco's forces.
Fisher was one of the earliest American volunteers and one of the
few to participate in all the major battles. Under a barrage of
shells, bombs, and bullets for eighteen months, he lost his
illusions about war's efficacy in solving political issues. To this
day a despondence often overwhelms him when he recalls a family
photograph he found jutting from the pocket of a slain fascist
soldier. His involvement taught him that up close, the dead,
whether fascist soldiers or his own fallen comrades, looked alike.
This is a war story, simply told. Yet it is also a complex story
about a young man testing his ideology in the harsh realities of
battle.
Bursting with historical, cultural, and natural abundance, the
Hudson River Valley region has captured the imaginations and the
hearts of generations of writers, artists, and adventurers. Now two
Hudson Valley natives have teamed up to capture the beauty and the
passion of this special region. More than 100 full-color photos
lavishly display the varied terrain from the sheer, abrupt cliffs
of the Shawangunk range to the quiet, tidal backwaters along the
river and the serene mystique of the fertile countryside. From
covered bridges to lighthouses, from ice climbing to bucolic
vistas, there is something here for every set of eyes. Photos are
gracefully complemented with rich text from one of the region's
most experienced and dedicated travel writers.
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