The Books
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How Can I Keep From Singing?
(Ballantine, 2008) is the companion volume to the radio series by producer and host, David Dunaway.
For those interested in epic music biographies, political activism, and the folk music revival – or anyone [Read More]
A Pete Seeger Discography
offers details of Seeger’s recording history, including album titles, songs, artists, publishing information, exact recording dates (if known), and original release dates and re-releases of all recordings. The book is organized chronologically and [Read More]
Singing Out: An Oral History of America’s Folk Music Revivals
is an oral history of the North American folk music revivals and folk music by David Dunaway and Molly Beer. Forward by Pete Seeger. [Read More]
What People Say
Studs Terkel
How Can I Keep From Singing? The Ballad of Pete Seeger
“This biography is a beauty. It captures not only the life of the bard but the world of which he sings.”
Chicago Sun Times
How Can I Keep From Singing? The Ballad of Pete Seeger
“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.”
American Music
How Can I Keep From Singing? The Ballad of Pete Seeger
“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.”
Pete Seeger
Singing Out
“Singing Out is a story of one of the links in what I think of as one of the world’s most important chains, namely the chain of people’s singers. I’m proud to be one of these links; I hope there are many more links to come. I’m glad there’s a book about such links.”