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	Pete Seeger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Seeger met and was influenced by many important musicians such as Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly during the late 1930s and early 1940s after dropping out of Harvard, where he was studying journalism.
		Seeger is involved in the Clearwater group, which he helped found in 1966.
		After the invasion of the Soviet Union, Seeger returned to his earlier stance as a strong proponent of military action against Germany; he was drafted into the Army, where he served honorably in the Pacific.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pete_Seeger (1048 words)

	Pete Seeger biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Peter Seeger (born May 3, 1919), almost always known as Pete Seeger, is a folk singer, political activist and major contributor to folk and protest music in 1950s and 1960s.
		Seeger is also well known for his communist political beliefs, leading political opponents to call him by pejorative names such as " Stalin 's Songbird".
		Like most members of the CPUSA, Seeger was virulently opposed to any action against Hitler from the time of the signing of the non-aggression pact between Germany and the USSR until it was broken by Operation Barbarossa on June 22, 1941.
	pete-seeger.biography.ms (619 words)

	Encyclopedia: Charles Seeger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Charles Seeger ( Mexico City, Mexico, 1886 - 1979) was musicologist, composer, and teacher.
		His second wife was the composer and musician Ruth Seeger (née Ruth Porter Crawford; by her, he had two children who also achieved musical renown, Peggy Seeger and Mike Seeger.
		Pete Seeger, 1944 Peter Seeger (born May 3, 1919 in New York City), almost always known as Pete Seeger, is a folk singer, political activist and major contributor to folk and protest music in 1950s and 1960s.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Charles-Seeger (511 words)

	A Question of Balance
		Seeger left an indelible mark in the fields of musicology, music criticism, ethnomusicology, and avant-garde musical composition, but until now there has been no extended appreciation and critique of Seeger's work as a whole, nor has an accessible guide to his texts been available.
		Charles Seeger is perhaps best known as the father of the folk singers Pete, Mike, and Peggy Seeger and as the husband of the innovative American composer Ruth Crawford.
		Seeger's intellectual curiosity was as eclectic as it was enthusiastic, and Greer skillfully weaves together the connections Seeger made between music, the humanities, and the sciences.
	www.ucpress.edu /books/pages/8059.html (483 words)

	Seeger.html
		Seeger is nowadays remembered principally as an ethnomusicologist, but in the years before the Second World War he was known also as a composer, teacher, critic and government administrator.
		Seeger was chairman of the Music Department at the University of California at Berkeley from 1912 to 1919.
		Indeed, Seeger felt that the ability to rhythmically 'dissonant' a single melodic line was an essential prerequisite to the successful writing of dissonant counterpoint and identified a number of practices through which this ideal might be realised.
	o-art.org /history/early/Seeger.html (1195 words)

	Classical Net Review - Seeger - "Portrait"
		As Oliver Knussen points out in his note to the recording, Seeger's string quartet of 1931 was likely the only one of her works most people knew, thanks to the pioneering recording by the Composers Quartet in their survey of American examples of the genre for the Nonesuch label.
		Seeger and her husband became prominent in the American political left of the Twenties and Thirties.
		Seeger improves the poems tremendously both with her settings and with some judicious editing of the worst howlers Tsiang commits to print.
	www.classical.net /~music/recs/reviews/d/dgg49925a.html (1994 words)

	Judith Tick, Ruth Crawford Seeger: A Composer's Search for American Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Charles Seeger was among the artists and musicians hired to both document the arts and lives of these rural poor, and to be "artists in residence" in the colonies.
		It was through their work with this agency and its successors that Seeger and Crawford came to understand that the art and culture of the folk is not something old and dying, but living and continually growing.
		Ruth Crawford Seeger's most public legacy is in the lives and work of her stepson, Pete, and her own children Mike and Peggy, all leading figures in the folk revival.
	www.greenmanreview.com /ruthcrawfordseeger.html (944 words)

	American Mavericks: What Is a Maverick?
		Seeger was an amazingly open-minded and forward-looking musical thinker who had also been a mentor for Henry Cowell.
		Seeger theorized that one could make a new kind of music from strictly substituting dissonant intervals where, in the past, composers had used consonant ones.
		Some have claimed that it was because Seeger discouraged her from composing, or because she began having children, including the future folksingers Michael and Peggy Seeger.
	musicmavericks.publicradio.org /features/essay_gann03.html (2724 words)

	Peggy Seeger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		NOTE: Peggy Seeger is included here as a point of interest; both her status as a member of the Seeger family, which has so influenced the modern folk music movement, as well as her professional and personal relationship to Ewan MacColl.
		Her parents, Ruth Crawford and Charles Seeger were both professional musicians and teachers.
		Peggy's father was Charles Louis Seeger, a pioneer of ethnomusicology at the University of California (Los Angeles) where he invented and developed the melograph, an electronic means of notating music.
	users2.ev1.net /~smyth/linernotes/personel/SeegerPeggy.htm (1411 words)

	Pete Seeger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Seeger is synonymous with the folk boom of the late 1950s and early 1960s, and helped to transform folk from an orally transmitted body of traditional songs found mainly among rural dwellers to a mass-market form of entertainment, popular on college campuses and in New York coffeehouses.
		Pete Seeger was born on May 3, 1919 in New York City, the son of Julliard musicologist Charles Seeger, one of the first researchers to investigate non-western music.
		Seeger had begun playing banjo in his teens, and developed an intense interest in folk music that only grew over time.
	history.sandiego.edu /gen/snd/peteseeger.html (492 words)

	Songwriters Hall of Fame (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		His father Charles Seeger was one of the great figures of American musicology and ethnomusicology, an enthusiastic scholar of folk music and a proselyte for what he called "Proleterian Music".
		Charles Seeger's second wife, Pete Seeger's stepmother, was the important avant-garde composer and compiler of folk songs Ruth Crawford Seeger.
		Seeger had joined the Communist Party in 1942 and remained a member until around 1950, and in the fierce political climate that started in the late 1940s, he became increasingly under attack.
	www.songwritershalloffame.org /exhibit_bio.asp?exhibitId=76 (444 words)

	Ecology Hall of Fame: Seeger
		Seeger's parents divorced and Charles married Ruth Crawford in 1931.Two of their children, Mike and Peggy Seeger, became folksingers.
		Seeger was subpoenaed by the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1955.One of the few witnesses who did not invoke the Fifth Amendment, he told the committee that he would not discuss his political views because it violated his First Amendment rights.
		Seeger became involved in the 1960s Civil Rights marches in the South, both as a marcher and as a performer for the marchers.
	www.ecotopia.org /ehof/seeger (1631 words)

	USOperaWeb Feature - Music from the Left (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Charles Seeger, musicologist and collector of folk music, was a formative influence on his son Pete Seeger, whose musical legacy has virtually defined American protest music.
		Let's look at what Eisler and Seeger were saying in the 1930s about the nature of protest music and see what we can learn from their own words: Eisler toured the United States early in 1935 for the Committee for the Victims of German Fascism.
		In a collection of essays from 1935-1975, Seeger opens with a discussion of "Synchronic and Diachronic Orientations in Musicology" and in a 1966 essay he engages that inflammatory topic, "The Folkness of the Nonfolk and the Nonfolkness of the Folk" (1977).
	www.usoperaweb.com /2002/jan/left.htm (4112 words)

	Charles L. Seeger -- radio astronomer, pioneer SETI scientist
		Charles L. Seeger, a pioneer radio astronomer who began tinkering with his own crystal sets by the age of 10 and conceived the forerunner of a great European radio observatory nearly 50 years later, died of congestive heart failure at his Palo Alto home on Aug. 26.
		Professor Seeger was born in Berkeley, where his father, the late Charles Seeger Jr., headed the first music department on the University of California campus.
		Professor Seeger is survived by his wife, Naomi; sons Jeremy, Matthew and Nicholas; daughters Cassandra Underwood and Barbara Seeger; stepdaughter Heather Weihl; brothers John, Peter and Michael; sisters Barbara Perfect and Peggy; and nine grandchildren.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/09/14/BA203068.DTL (579 words)

	Seeger, Charles L. (1912-)
		Seeger, Charles L. Radio astronomer who played a leading role in the SETI Program Office at NASA.
		He was a codeveloper of the first ultra-stable, high-gain, low-noise parametric amplifiers needed for radio astronomy and for SETI and took part in the 1971 Stanford-Ames ASEE summer study that produced Project Cyclops.
		Seeger obtained a B.S. in electrical engineering from Cornell University (1946) and carried out graduate studies at Leiden University, in the Netherlands, under Jan Oort.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/S/Seeger.html (139 words)

	Pete Seeger
		Born in 1919 to musicologist Dr. Charles Seeger and concert violinist Constance Edson Seeger, Pete, while in his teens, developed an interest in music and journalism, crafts he would intertwine throughout his career.
		Dedicating himself to “the music of the people,” Seeger formed the politically oriented Almanac Singers in 1941 with Guthrie and other musicians before Seeger was drafted into the Army in 1942 and sent to the Pacific.
		Seeger and his wife of 60 years, Toshi Ohta Seeger, live in a log cabin in New York State that they built using instructions from library books.
	www.appleseedrec.com /petecd3/aboutpete.html (402 words)

	Peggy Seeger - Ruth Crawford Seeger : Guardian Review
		When she made that observation at the age of 26, Crawford Seeger was already becoming a confident and daringly original composer.
		So brief was Crawford Seeger's flowering as a composer that her complete works can be listed in a few lines of the Grove Dictionary of Music.
		It is surprising that Crawford Seeger became a composer at all.
	www.pegseeger.com /html/dioguardian.html (1400 words)

	Artistopia Music - Pete Seeger
		Seeger started a solo career in 1958 (see 1958 in music), and is known for songs such as "If I Had a Hammer" (co-written with Lee Hays), "Turn, Turn, Turn" (adapted from ''Ecclesiastes''), and "We Shall Overcome" (based on a spiritual).
		As a member of the Old Left, Seeger is known for his communist political beliefs, formed before the crimes of Stalin were admitted to by the Soviet Union.
		Seeger left the Communist Party in 1950, five years before Nikita Khrushchev's Secret speech revealed Stalin's crimes and led to a mass exodus from the Party.
	www.artistopia.com /Music-Artists/Pros/Bio.asp?ID=8112&Name=Pete (775 words)

	Homeward Bound (An Excerpt)- Real People's Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Seeger and Crawford later married and settled in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., to raise their family, which eventually grew to include four additional children.
		Seeger continued her education at Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she majored in music.
		Seeger became a British subject and settled in England with MacColl.
	www.realpeoplesmusic.com /misc/homeward-bound-excerpt.htm (886 words)

	PEGGY SEEGER
		Her mother, the composer and pianist Ruth Crawford Seeger, was the first woman to be awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship Award for Music.
		The highlight of their collaboration (“other than our children”) was the development, with BBC producer Charles Parker, of the innovative Radio Ballad form, a mosaic of spoken vocals, sound effects and newly written folk songs.
		For seven years, Seeger and MacColl ran the controversial London Critics Group and produced a yearly political theatrical presentation, “The Festival of Fools.” The duo also operated (and regularly performed at) one of England’s best known folk venues, The Singers Club, and formed their own record label, Blackthorne Records.
	www.appleseedrec.com /peggyseeger2/aboutpeggy.html (697 words)

	Peggy Seeger - Ruth Crawford Seeger : Bio
		In 1929 she began study with Charles Seeger, a key figure in American music as a composer, theorist and musicologist.
		Among her children with Seeger were daughter Peggy and son Mike, both to become renowned folksingers and teachers in adulthood.
		This and the other "Crawford Seeger" books of the kind are yet regarded as key texts in primary music education, and were widely adopted and imitated in the field.
	www.pegseeger.com /html/dio.html (898 words)

	Mike Seeger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It is no wonder that Mike Seeger has maintained a lifelong fascination with the roots of American music: indeed, it has been in his blood from the day he was born.
		As Seeger him self recalled it, "I was raised on field recordings of Southern rural music and my parents' singing of these songs to me and their friends.
		We always sang around the house." By his late teens, he had developed a remarkable degree of virtuosity on a wide variety of instruments, including guitar, fiddle, autoharp, banjo, mandolin, dulcimer, mouth harp and dobro, and began a performing career with his sister Peggy.
	users2.ev1.net /~smyth/linernotes/personel/SeegerMike.htm (392 words)

	WNCI.com
		Although he began his musical career as a composer and conductor, Charles Seeger would become a pioneer in the field of musicology (the systematized study of music).
		During the '60s and '70s Seeger served in a number of positions that aided in the promotion of ethnomusicology (the comparative study of music from different cultures).
		Seeger, like the Lomax s, and John Jacob Niles, proved a major force in laying the groundwork for the Folk Revival of the late '50s, and proved central in helping Americans recognize the value of their own folk culture.
	www.wnci.com /iplaylist/artist/180637 (443 words)

	San Francisco Symphony American Mavericks Series (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Carl Ruggles (1876-1971) and Charles Ives (1874-1954) were both New Englanders born in the nineteenth century into an era of stable aesthetic judgments; both lived to see stability give way to more fluid perspectives and identities.
		After Ruggles's Sun-treader, we hear a work finished in the same year, 1931, by Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-53), and though the career trajectories of the older man and the younger woman were poles apart, in some way the works both represent the twilight of their respective working lives.
		She adopted Charles Seeger's approach of "dissonant counterpoint," and later, after they were married, shared his rejection of fine-art music in favor of folk music as an extension of political views stimulated by the Depression.
	www.americanmavericks.com /prog_notes/june_09.html (2161 words)

	Pete Seeger
		, the son of the musicologist, Charles Seeger, was born in New York on 3rd May, 1919.
		Seeger was supporter of Henry Wallace and the Progressive Party candidate in the presidential election of 1948.
		Whereas he was willing to talk about his own political beliefs, Seeger refused to name other members of the various left-wing groups that he had belonged to over the years.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAseeger.htm (839 words)

	The dean of American folk singers reflects on life at 85 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		These are busy times for Seeger, who has far more on his plate than just building fences, or chopping wood, which he also does regularly at 85.
		Seeger: He was 92 when he fell down the stairs, hit his head and went out like a light.
		Seeger: We were together in February to have a little tribute here for our fellow manager Harold Leventhal.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/08/11/entertainment1208EDT0740.DTL (1073 words)

	Bell Yung and Helen Rees / Understanding Charles Seeger, Pioneer in Musicology
		A giant in the development of American musicology, Charles Seeger was a scholar-musician active in practically all areas of musical endeavor.
		A philosopher, builder, and social activist, Seeger played a leadership role in the Composers Collective in 1930s New York and in the founding of the American Musicological Society and the Society for Ethnomusicology.
		By presenting new views of Seeger's thought, incorporating in particular often neglected early writings, Understanding Charles Seeger, Pioneer in American Musicology provides a valuable perspective on intellectual history in twentieth-century America.
	www.press.uillinois.edu /f99/yung.html (266 words)

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