Page numbers set in italics indicate illustrations are to be found on those pages.
“Abiyoyo,” 233
accompaniment, 40
“An Acoustic Concert for a Non-Nuclear Future” flyer, 200
Acoustic Guitar, 233
activism. See also political activism
Hudson River, 187, 194, 198, 203–5
African Americans. See blacks
Alarik, Scott, 229
albums, xii. See also Columbia Records; Folkways Records; liner notes; recordings; specific albums and record companies
awards, xi
children, 232
recent, 247
Village Vanguard, 132
“All For Pete!” concert flyer, 154
Almanac People’s Music Library, 16
Almanac Singers, xiii, 20, 43, 52, 104, 105, 110
at American Youth Congress, 120
dissolution, 121
Guthrie, Woody, with, 13–15, 68, 69, 114
at League of American Writers, 69–70
overview, 13–16, 67–71,114,238–39
American
authentic folk singers, 116
communists, 141
folk music, 113,152–53,169,180
American Dialog, 201
American Favorite Ballads (Seeger, Pete), 149–50,152–53
“American Favorite Ballads,” 164
American Folksay, 74
American Labor Party, 112
American Square Dance Group (ASDG), 55–56, 64, 67
American Youth Congress, 119–20
“America’s Best-Loved Commie: Even a Radical Can Become a National Treasure,” 223–28
communists and, 144
Vietnam War, 144–45, 188, 190, 193, 196–200, 202
Appleseed Recordings, 229, 232
Archive of American Folk Songs. See Library of Congress
Armstrong, Louis, 108
The Art of the Five-String Banjo, 131
Asch, Moses (“Moe”)
American Favorite Ballads foreword by, 149–50, 152–53
Folkways Records and, 17, 50, 111, 112, 150
Asch, Sholem, 50
Asch Records, 17, 74. See also specific Asch recordings
ASDG. See American Square Dance Group
Atlantic Monthly, 142
“Aupres de ma Blonde,” 7
authentic folk singers and music, 116, 167,169–70,179
awards and honors, 243
album, xi
attitude toward, 230
Guthrie, Woody, and Pythian, 132
Kennedy Center, xi, 142, 223–25, 229, 230
National Medal of the Arts, xi, 223, 229, 230
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, xi, 229, 230
“Back Where I Come From,” 66–67
Badeaux, Ed, 150
“Baleka,” 26
“Ballad for Americans,” 19, 141
“Banjo Picker in Kentucky,” 64–65
banjos, 55, 64, 66,111–12,183, 213
The Art of the Five-String Banjo, 131
“Five-String Banjo Manual,” 95
To Hear Your Banjo Play, xiii, 56,115
“How to Play the 5-String Banjo,” xiv, 115, 119, 158, 179
lessons, 141
protest songs and, 215
“Seeger Model” Vega, 140
Barker, Horton, 183
Barthel, Joan, 193
Batsdorff, Emerson, 135,137–39
Bawdy Ballads and Real Sad Songs, 85
Beacon, New York, 194, 215, 247
self-built home, 31, 101, 192, 202, 238
The Bells of Rhymney and Other Songs and Stories from the Singing of Pete Seeger (Seeger, Pete), xiv
benefit concerts, 215
Berger, Warren, 232
Berkeley
University of California, 6–7, 45
Berne, Harold, 40
Bill of Rights, 48
biographies, xii
The Bitter End, 34
blacklist, 22–24,103–5,143, 216, 219. See also McCarthyism
television, 35–36,39,166,173–75, 193, 195–97, 238, 241–43
blacks, 6, 16, 26, 29, 143. See also civil rights movement
work songs, 105
“Blind Rafferty.” See Van Ronk, Dave
blues, 183
books. See also specific book and publisher topics
contributions, 162
Boston Globe, 229
Bound for Glory (Guthrie, Woody), 8, 12
Breindel, Erik, 224
Broadside, 20, 32, 157, 160, 166, 168–69, 240
cover, 181
Broadside (Los Angeles), 160–61
Brundage, Al, 56
Butterfield Blues Band, 187
Callaghan, Dorsey, 123
Caravan
article about Guthrie, Woody, 135
Carawan, Guy, 29
career, and life project, 238, 242
Carnegie Hall concerts, 125–26, 166, 194, 211
flyer, 124
program, 131
Carnegie Steel Works strike, 218
Carry It On!: A History in Song and Picture of the Working Men and Women in America (Seeger and Reiser), 223
Carson, Rachel, 194
Carter, Sandy, 230
Casetta, Mario (“Boots”), 75, 79
Chapman, Stephen, 224
Chavez, Cesar, 193
Chicago fm Guide article, 135
Chicago Tribune, 233
children
albums, 232
singing for, 198
songbooks, xiv
storytelling to, 232
Children’s Concert at Town Hall, 198
“Children’s Folk Song Concerts: Pete Seeger and Sam Hinton” flyer, 174
Chile overthrow, 209
China, 216
CIO. See Congress of Industrial Organization
“City of New Orleans,” xiii
civil liberties, 192
songs, 112
Civil Rights Congress, Harlem Chapter concert, 101
civil rights movement, 31,166, 241–42
Clayton, Peter, 177
Clearwater sloop, 40, 198, 199, 200, 204, 212, 215, 245
Cleveland Plain Dealer article, 137–39
Clinton, Bill, xi, 223–24, 225
Cohen, John, 6
Collins, Judy, 33
Columbia Records, 4, 32, 34, 47, 157, 196. See also specific Columbia recordings
Harmony label, 198
1960’s albums, 193, 195, 200–201
Columbia University concerts, 119
Commies (Radosh) excerpt, 139–45
Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy (SANE), 31
communes, 14
communism, 93, 103, 104, 109, 197, 212
Communist Party, 55, 56, 68, 94, 133, 139, 212, 218
Daily People’s World, 10
Daily Worker, 71, 73, 80,109,110,112
disintegration of, 214
International Workers Order, 140
Jewish Young Folk-Singers, 140–41
Leadbelly and, 218
on white chauvinism, 143
communists, 9–10, 22–24, 48, 55, 69, 142,188,190, 217, 224–25, 236, 240. See also McCarthyism
American, 141
antiwar activism and, 144
influence of, 209
concerts, 4, 153. See also performances
“All For Pete!” flyer, 154
Carnegie Hall, 124,125–26,131,166, 194, 211, 221–22, 247
Civil Rights Congress, Harlem Chapter, 101
Columbia University, 119
Hollywood High review, 123, 127–28
“People of the World in Concert” flyer, 221
Royal Albert Hall flyer, 158
Sadlowski benefit, 209, 210, 218–20
Soviet Union, 167, 171–72, 187, 188, 224
world tour (1963–64), 33–34, 36, 167, 170–71
Congressional contempt charges conviction reversal, 161
First Amendment defense and, 129, 155, 242
HUAC and, 126,128–30,153–57,161, 216, 227, 242
statement to the court, 154–56
Congress of Industrial Organization (CIO), 14, 15, 52, 110, 120
“Cotton Fields,” 7
“The Country Washboard Band,” 162–64
country-western music, 218
Cowan, Paul, 187
Cowell, Henry, 48
Creighton, Lan (Mr. and Mrs.), 63–64
CrossRoads, 220
culture
leftward popular, 239
of movements, 217
Cunningham, Agnes (“Sis”), 13, 16, 33, 71
Broadside and, 20, 32, 157, 160, 166, 168–69
Daily Compass article, 102, 107–8
Daily People’s World, 10
Daily Worker, 71, 73, 80, 109, 110, 112, 142
“Change the World” column, 141
Daily World promotion flyer, 222
Dallos, August, 195
D’Ambrosio, Antonino, 199
Darling Corey: Picking the Five String Banjo and Singing, 21,133,182
Lomax, Alan, liner notes for, 111, 113–15
The David Susskind Show, 195, 197
Dear Mr. President, 71
Decca Records, 19, 21,32,102–5,121, 150, 240. See also specific Decca recordings
Declaration of Independence, 43
DeCormier, Bob, 140
Deep Community, 229
Deitch, Gene, 167
D’Lugoff, Art, 149
“Dog Sled,” 107
Dowding, Constance Seeger. See Seeger, Constance
Down Beat, 130
Downtown Community School, 112
Dreiser, Theodore, 69
The Drums of Kim Loy Wong with the University Settlement Steel Drum: An Instructional Record, 150
Dubois, Paul, 232
Dunaway, David King, xi, xii, 143
Dunson, Josh, 33
Dylan, Bob, 15,32,37–39,143,180, 185–87
ecology, 40
Edson, Constance de Clyver. See Seeger, Constance
Edson, Deacon, 44
Einstein, Albert, 50
Elisabeth Irwin High School, 139–40
Elliott, Jack, 15
environment, 40
crisis, 205
environmental movement, 209
Hudson River activism, 187, 194, 198, 203–5
nuclear energy activism, 200, 212
ethnic folk music, 36
Ethno-Musicology Newsletter, 125
Everybody Says Freedom: A History of the Civil Rights Movement in Songs and Pictures (Seeger and Reiser), 223
“Every Night When the Sun Goes Down,” 108
Faier, Billy, 131
Fascists, 21–22, 24–25, 48, 122
Fast, Howard, 101
Felix Varela Medal, xi
feminism, 30
films
Guthrie, Woody, 218
Kennedy Center, 142
First Amendment, 129, 155, 242
Fisher, Marc, 223
“Five-String Banjo Manual,” 95
Flacks, Richard (‘Dick’), 236
folk music,xiv, 8–9, 12–13, 18–19, 26. See also specific folk music topics
ethnic, 36
popularity, 121–23, 126, 127, 130, 135, 149, 150, 157, 166, 173, 217–18, 220, 241
rock and, 217
Sixties revival, 31–36, 157, 173–80, 217, 241
on television, xiii, 35–37, 173–75
traditions and influences, 119, 220
words of, 138
folk music films, xiii–xiv, 123. See also specific folk music films
Folk Music Magazine interview, 211
folk singers. See also specific folk singers
Folksingers and Folksongs in America: A Handbook of Biography, Bibliography, and Discography (Lawless), 112
The Folksinger’s Guitar Guide: Vol. 1: An Instruction Record, 123
folk songs, xii, 25. See also specific folk songs
early collected recordings of, 9
popularity, 121–23, 127, 130, 135, 149, 150, 157, 166, 173, 241
Sixties revival, 31–36,157,173–80
social change and, 233
Folkways Records, xii, 4, 30, 32, 43, 55, 105,152. See also specific Folkways recordings
Asch, Moses, and, 17, 50, 111, 112, 150
brochure, 134
1950’s albums, 112, 123, 132, 133, 241
“The Free And Equal Blues,” 89
Freedom Singers, 240
FRETS, 212
“Friends of Pete Seeger,” 153–54, 157
fundraising, 209. See also benefit concerts
for building sloops, 203–4, 212
Gallanter, Mark, 212
Gamage, Harvey, 203
Gateway Singers, 143
Geer, Herta, 10
Gent, 152
Gent, George, 195
The Ghost of Tom Joad, 233
Gilbert, Ronnie, 17–18, 29, 102, 105–8, 110, 125
“A Singer Who Meets You Half Way” of, 181,184–86
Goldstein, Kenneth, 111
Good Neighbor Chorus, 101
“Goodnight, Irene,” 19, 102, 122, 225
Gould, Jack, 195
Green, Archie, 135
Grossman, Albert, 38
Grossman, Ron, 223
Guideposts, 198
Guthrie, Arlo, xiii, 199, 221, 222, 247
Guthrie, Mary, 57
Guthrie, Woody, 17, 25, 41, 49–50, 201, 232, 233, 235, 242, 243
with Almanac Singers, 13–15, 68, 69, 114
Caravan article about, 135
films, 218
Huntington’s chorea illness, 13, 111, 142, 152, 162
A Pete Seeger Concert liner notes by, 111–12
politics of, 10, 12, 142, 217, 218
Pythian musical honoring of, 132
on “Songs To Grow On,” 153
Hajdu, David, 233
Hamlin, Cyrus, 203
“The Hammer Song” (“If I Had a Hammer”), 3–4, 102, 117
“Hard-Hitting Songs,” 74
Harvard College, xi, 49, 55, 230–31
Hawes, Baldwin (“Butch”), 13, 14, 71
Hawes, Bess Lomax, 41
with Almanac Singers, 13, 67–70, 105, 114
with Weavers, 17–20, 28–29, 102, 105–10, 125
Hellerman, Fred, 17, 29, 102, 105–8, 125
Helmore, Edward, 236
Henscratches and Flyspecks: How to Read Melodies from Songbooks in Twelve Confusing Lessons (Seeger, Pete), 201
Hentoff, Nat, 173
“Hey Zhankoye,” 144
Highlander Folk School, 29
Hildebrand, Lee, 220
Hill, Joe, 242
Hitler, Adolph, 12, 48, 72, 80, 110, 142
Hitler-Stalin peace pact, 110,142,143, 214
Ho Chi Minh, 226
Holden, Stephen, 221
“Hold the Line,” 22
Hollywood High concert review, 123, 127–28
honesty, 41
Hootenanny, xiii, 35–37, 173–75
Hootenanny Club, 194
Hootenanny Hoot, 36
Hootenanny label, 21
Horton, Miles, 29
Horton, Zilphia, 29
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), 33, 42,104, 158, 197, 216
contempt charges, 126,128–30, 153–57,161, 216, 227, 242
How Can I Keep from Singing? The Ballad of Pete Seeger (David King Dunaway), xii
How To Make a Chalil, 123
“How to Play the 5-String Banjo,” xiv, 115, 119, 158, 179, 240
HUAC. See House Un-American Activities Committee
Hudson River
activism, 187, 194, 198, 203–5
history, 202
museum, 194
Hughes, Langston, 141
Hunt, Ken, 223
“I Don’t Want to Get Adjusted to This World,” 107
“I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night,” 20
“I Feel Like I’m Fixin’ To Die Rag,” 39, 196, 201
“If Every Concert Were a Benefit, Pete Seeger Would Be Frank Sinatra,” 213–18
“If I Had a Hammer” (“The Hammer Song”), 3–4,18–20,32,185,226,231
“I’m On My Way,” 165
The Incompleat Folksinger (Seeger, Pete), xii, 201
individualism, 238
Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), 69
instructional manuals, xiv. See also specific instructional manuals
instruments, 34
integrity, 41
“The Internationale,” 211
International Musician article, 180, 181
International Workers Order, 140
interviews
Folk Music Magazine, 211
Penthouse, 200
Soviet Life, 182
“Is There a Blacklist in U.S. Television,” 174
“It’s Not Nose in Folk Song, Artist Proves,” 137–39
IWW. See Industrial Workers of the World
Jefferson School of Social Science Newsletter, 84–87
Jenkins, Gordon, 102, 121, 240
Jewish Young Folk-Singers (JYF), 140–41
Jews, and Stalin, 144
John Birch Society, 188
“John Hardy,” 17
“Johnny Appleseed, Jr.” column, xii, 119, 136, 211
The Johnny Cash Show, 199
Johnson, Lyndon, 193, 196, 197
John Wesley Harding, 39
JYF. See Jewish Young Folk-Singers
Kaufman, Irving R., 161
Kelsey, Steve, 211
Kennedy Center
award, xi, 142, 223–25, 229, 230
film, 142
Keynote Records, 69
Khan, Imrat, 34
“King Henry,” 182
Kingston Trio, 32, 36,126,135,149, 179, 185
Kirkpatrick, Fred, 181
Klein, Joe, 209
labor
migrant camps, 10
school, 88
labor movement, 52, 93, 209, 239
labor songs, 85–86, 135, 175–76, 219, 241. See also People’s Songs; singing labor movement; union songs; work songs
Labor Youth League, 112
L.A. Free Press, 193
Lampell, Millard, 13, 67–70,114
land, 40
Lawless, Ray M.
Folksingers and Folksongs in America of, 112
League of American Writers, 68, 69
Ledbetter, Huddie (Leadbelly), xv, 7, 13, 19, 37, 49, 50, 106, 108
Communist Party and, 218
People’s Songs and, 17
Lees, Gene, 198
Left, 11, 19–23, 26, 33, 139, 237. See also socialism
culture, 239
New, 197
Popular Front era of far, 217
radical, 9, 25–26, 29, 214, 217, 218
Lehrer, Tom, 33
Lenin, Vladimir, 48
Leonard, John, 211
Lessing, Doris, 42
“Let America Be America Again,” 141
letters
Almanac Singers to House, 71–73
to Green, 135
to People’s Songs supporters, 93–97
Leventhal, Harold, 28, 29, 104–5, 126
“Friends of Pete Seeger” and, 153, 157
newsletter about world concert tour, 167, 170–71
Levin, Jay, 187
Lewis, George, 68
Library of Congress
Archive of American Folk Songs, 9, 47–49, 56, 70, 74, 113–14, 179, 180
LPs, 183
Life, 175
liner notes, 162
Washboard Country Band Dance Tunes, 162–64
Lines—Horizontal and Vertical, 158
“Listen Mr. Bilbo,” 89
Little, Paul, 130
Little Sandy Review article, 173, 175–80
live recordings, 4
Lomax, Alan, xiv, 13, 57, 71, 72, 75, 105, 176, 178
Archive of American Folk Songs and, 9, 47, 49, 56, 70, 74, 113–14, 179, 180
Darling Corey liner notes by, 111, 113–15
People’s Songs and, 94
Lomax, Elizabeth, 75
Lomax, John A., 8–9, 47, 105, 178–80
The Lonesome Train, 74
“Long John,” 47
Look, 198
“Looking For a Home,” 90
Los Angeles concert review, 160–62
Lunsford, Bascom Lamar, 55
Luxembourg, Rosa, 48
Madison Square Garden celebration, 237, 243
“Maggie’s Farm,” 38
“Mail Myself To You,” 152
male supremacy, 20–21, 30, 117
The Martins and the Coys, 75
Matusow, Harvey, 104
“May There Always Be Sunshine,” 216
McCarthy, Joe, 7, 9, 22, 103, 104, 112
McCarthyism, 9, 22–24, 29, 33, 103,141,197. See also blacklist; House Un-American Activities Committee
McKenzies, 46
“Mdube” (“The Lion”), 18
Melody Maker, 157
Metronome, 104
“Michael, Row the Boat Ashore,” 4
Michigan Daily, 154
migrant labor camps, 10
“Money in the Pocket,” 90
“Monongahela Sal,” 219
Moscow concerts, 187, 188, 224
Moss, Mark, 211
movements. See also antiwar movement and activism; environmental movement; labor movement
culture of, 217
peace, 209
political, 217
progressive, 101
“Mr. Jones,” 143
Muns, Marty, 4
Hollywood High concert review by, 123, 127–28
music, xi. See also folk music; specific music topics
country-western, 218
participation, 238
of people, 13
popular, xiv, 12, 121, 132, 201, 242
protest, 237
traditional, 201
world, 201
Music from Oil Drums, 150
musicology, 7
Musselman, Jim, 229
“My Pete Seeger Spring: A Visit to Say Thanks,” 246
National Educational Television (NET), 39
“National Guardian Winter Ball,” 112
National Medal of the Arts, xi, 223, 229, 230
Negro Prison Camp Work Songs, 105
NET. See National Educational Television
New Lost City Ramblers, 6, 173
Newport Folk Festivals, 37–38,187, 240, 241, 245
“Newspapermen Meet Such Interesting People,” 137, 138–39
New York Times, 161,187,193–95, 221, 237
New York World Telegram article, 104, 109–10
Nixon, Richard, 199
“Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen,” 157
“No More Labor Wanted Until Further Notice: Camp Blanding, Florida,” 57
“Non-Confrontation in Beacon, New York,” 187–93
“Not That Kind of Music,” 245
nuclear energy activism, 200, 212
nuclear testing, 31
Occupy Wall Street, 245
O’Hagan, Sean, 233
Ohio Un-American Activities Commission, 104
Ohta (Mr. and Mrs.), 81
Ohta, Toshi. See Seeger, Toshi
“Old Hannah,” 21
Olson, Charles, 8
“On Singing Folk Songs in Night Club,” 149
organizational entrepreneurship, 239–40
Parents Committee for Jewish Education appearance, 135,137–39
Parkside Journal article, 123, 127–28
“Passing Through,” 153
peace movement, 209. See also antiwar movement and activism
Peltier, Leonard, 247
Penthouse interview, 200
“People of the World in Concert” flyer, 221
People’s Artists, xiii, 20, 21, 24, 101, 102, 239
“Hootenanny and Dance,” 112
The People’s Song Book, 94, 96–97
People’s Songs, xiii, 25, 75, 110, 114, 220
Bulletins, 17, 85, 89–98, 102, 115, 121
“Five-String Banjo Manual,” 95
Guthrie, Woody, and people of, 79–83
Leadbelly and, 17
Lomax, Alan, and, 94
New Masses article on, 84, 88–92
union songs and, 29, 82, 84, 86, 92, 93, 120
The People’s World, 40
performances, 112, 114–15, 127, 136, 177–78, 183. See also concerts
style, 240
“Pete and His Banjo Meet Some Fine Mountain Folks,” 62–64
“Pete’s Children: The American Folksong Revival, Pro and Con,” 173, 175–80
Pete Seeger and Arlo Guthrie Together in Concert, 202
Pete Seeger at the Village Gate with Memphis Slim and Willie Dixon, 149
Pete Seeger & Brother Kirk Visit Sesame Street, 196
A Pete Seeger Concert: Folk Songs and Ballads, 117
Goldstein liner notes to, 111
Guthrie, Woody, liner notes to, 111–12
“Pete Seeger” critical review, 180, 182–84
“Pete Seeger in L.A. Concert,” 160–62
Pete Seeger in Prague 1964, 167
“Pete Seeger Sails In to a Hero’s Welcome,” 149,157–59
The Pete Seeger Sampler, 112, 113
“Pete Seeger’s Steelyard Benefit,” 218–20
Pete Seeger’s Storytelling Book (Seeger and DuBois), 232
Pete Seeger Story Songs, 151–52, 159
Pete Seeger: The Power of Song, 232, 236
“Pete Seeger—Voice of Our Democratic Heritage,” 117–23
Pickin’: The Magazine of Bluegrass and Old Time Country Music, 202, 212
Pinkertons, 218
“Pittsburgh is a Smokey Old Town,” 219
plastic folk music, 35, 36. See also pop music
play party, 138
political activism, 24, 26,31, 41–42, 79–80,157,182, 212, 226–28. See also antiwar movement and activism; protest
political folk music, 15, 29, 33, 36
political songs. See topical songs politics, 8, 9, 136, 137, 215. See also specific political topics
of Guthrie, Woody, 10, 12, 142, 217, 218
movements, 217
Weavers and, 122
pop music, 37–38. See also plastic folk music
Popular Front, 217
folk song and music, 121–23, 126, 127, 130, 135, 149, 150, 157, 166, 173, 217–18, 220, 241
popular music, xiv, 12, 121, 132, 201, 242
“Pretty Boy Floyd,” 14
progressive movement, 101
Progressive Party, 94
Promenade: A Magazine of American Folk Lore, 64
protest, 187. See also antiwar movement and activism
banjos and, 215
music, 237
nonconformist protester, 217
puppet shows, 8
Vagabond Puppeteers, 56, 58–62, 59
Pythian, 132
racism, 143
radical Left, 9, 25–26, 29, 214, 217, 218
radical politics, 123, 187, 193, 228
“Raghupati,” 34
Rainbow Boys, 75
“The Rankin Tree,” 89
Ray, Nicholas, 47
rebellion, 227
record companies. See specific record companies
recordings. See also albums; specific recordings
live, 4
number of, 4
Red Channels: The Report of the Communist Influence in Radio and Television, 103
Reed, Bob, 110
Reiser, Bob, 223
“Report from the Marinas: Notes of an Innocent Bystander,” 73–79
Reprints from the People’s Songs Bulletin, 150
“Reuben James,” 14
Reynolds, Malvina, 4, 31, 33, 185
“Ring Around the Rosey,” 138
Robeson, Paul, 19–21,101,102,112,122, 141, 143, 209
rock, and folk music, 217
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, xi, 229, 230
Rodgers, Jeffrey, 233
Roll the Union On, 79
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 77, 94, 110, 142
“Round and Round Hitler’s Grave,” 71, 73
Royal Albert Hall concerts, 209
flyer, 158
Russell, Bob, 90
Russia, 21, 23, 216. See also Soviet Union
Sablan, Gregorio, 76
Sadlowski benefit concert, 209, 218–20
flyer, 210
Sanders, Betty, 30
SANE. See Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy
San Francisco Chronicle, 181
San Jose Peace Center, 220
“Satisfied Mind,” 228
Schneider, Leonard, 104
Schwartz, Jo Metcalf, 201
SEEDS: The Songs of Pete Seeger, 230
Seeger, Alan (father’s brother), 51
Seeger, Barbara (stepsister), 6
Seeger, Charles (father), xi, 6–8, 45–49, 51, 227, 237, 238, 241
Seeger, Charles, Jr. (brother), 6
Seeger, Constance (mother), xi, 6, 45–46, 49
Seeger, John (brother), 6
Seeger, Michael (stepbrother), 6, 47, 173, 183
Seeger, Peggy (stepsister), 6, 8,39, 47, 167, 183
Seeger, Penny (stepsister), 6
Seeger, Peter (“Pete”). See also specific topics
early life, 5–8, 43–49, 55, 227
Seeger, Ruth Crawford (stepmother), 6, 8, 9, 46–48
Seeger, Tinya (daughter), 202
Seeger, Toshi (wife), 7, 21,30,31, 73, 101,105,112,180, 202, 216, 225, 240, 247
“Seeger Cites Battle of Politics, Arts,” 156–57
Seeger family. See also specific family members
“Seeger Helps Restore American Folk Heritage,” 130
“Seeger Model” Vega Banjo, 140
Shamrock Room, 105
Sharpe, Cecil, 86
Shaw, Lee (aka Hoffman), 133
Shelton, Robert, 194
siblings, 6. See also specific siblings
“Pete Seeger—Voice of Our Democratic Heritage” article by, 117–23
Sing Out! and, 117–23,126,143, 220
Silent Spring (Carson), 194
Sing Along, 130
Singer, Ted, 211
“A Singer Who Meets You Half Way,” 181, 184–86
singing. See also folk singing
for children, 198
singing labor movement, 84–86, 88–92. See also People’s Songs
Sing Out!, 240
columns, xii, xiii, 119, 136, 174, 211
financial problems, 211
“Johnny Appleseed, Jr.” column, xiii, 119,136, 211
May 1954 issue, 117, 118, 119–23
“Pete Seeger” critical review, 180, 182–84
“Pete Seeger—Voice of Our Democratic Heritage,” 117–23
Silber and, 117–23, 126, 143, 220
The Sing Out Bulletin, 211
folk music revival, 31–36, 157, 173–80, 217, 241
student rebellion, 188
sloops
Clearwater, 40, 198, 199, 200, 204, 212, 215, 245
fundraising for building, 203–4, 212
Hudson River, 40, 194, 202, 203
Smoky Mt. Ballads, 55
The Smothers Brothers Show, 39, 145, 195–97
Smucker, Tom, 209
SNCC. See Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
social change, and folk songs, 233
socialism, 228. See also communism
social movements. See movements
“Solidarity Forever,” 17
“So Long, It’s Been Good to Know You,” 14
songbooks, children’s, xiv
songs, 225–26. See also folk songs; labor songs; topical songs
civil liberties, 112
research, 175
royalties, 233
spirituals and gospel, 183
writing, 233
Songs for Victory: Music for Political Action, 74
The Songs of Pete Seeger, 229–30
Songs of the Spanish Civil War, 74
“Songs To Grow On,” 153
Song Swappers, 123
Southern News Almanac, 57
Soviet Life interview, 182
Soviet Union, 144. See also Russia
concerts, 167,171–72,187,188, 224
Hitler-Stalin peace pact, 110,142, 143, 214
Stockholm Peace Petition, 143
Speedy, Brooklyn, 11
spirituals and gospel songs, 183
Springsteen, Bruce, 233–37, 242, 243
Stalin, Joseph, 48, 142, 143, 228
Hitler-Stalin peace pact, 110
Jews and, 144
Starobin, Joseph, 112
steel drums, West Indian, 150, 151
The Steel Drums of Kim Loy Wong: An Instruction Book (Seeger, Pete), 150, 151
Stockholm Peace Petition, 143
storytelling, 228
to children, 232
St. Pancras Town Hall, 149
Strangers and Cousins, 34, 184
strikes, 8, 88, 91–92, 193, 209
Carnegie Steel Works, 218
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), 166
Sixties rebellion, 188
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), 236
“Suliram,” 18
Sullivan, Ed, 22
“Takashi Ohta Crosses the Ocean,” 232
Talking Union, 15, 69, 123, 182
“Talking Union,” 14
“Teacher Uncle Ho,” 226
television, xiii–xiv, 199. See also Hootenanny; specific television programs
blacklist, 35–36, 39, 166, 173–75, 193, 195–97, 238, 241–43
educational, 39
folk music on, xiii, 35–37, 173–75
Terkel, Studs, 42–43, 217, 233
Terry, Sonny, 112
“Testimonial Evening of Song for Pete Singer,” 101
“This Land Is Your Land,” 14, 50, 196, 201, 220, 243
Time, 103
Tin Pan Alley, 121
To Hear Your Banjo Play, xiii, 56,115
tradition, 87
tours, 240
world concert (1963–64), 33–34, 36, 167, 170–71
Town Hall concerts, 21, 112, 117
trade unions, 82, 84, 209, 220
traditional music, 201
A Treasury of American Folklore, 74
troubadours, 242
“Tuomni,” 21
Union Boys, 74
unions, 226. See also strikes; specific unions
United Steelworkers of America, 209, 210, 218–20
union songs, 14, 16, 52, 67, 211. See also labor songs; People’s Songs
People’s Songs and, 29, 82, 84, 86, 92, 93, 120
“Union Train,” 175
United States. See American
United Steelworkers of America, 209, 218–20
benefit concert flyer, 210
University of California, Berkeley, 6–7, 45
USSR. See Soviet Union
Vagabond Puppeteers, 56, 58–62, 59
Vanguard Records, 29, 32, 130, 133, 241. See also specific Vanguard recordings
Van Ronk, Dave (“Blind Rafferty”), 133, 136–37
Variety, 122
“Venga Jaleo,” 107
Verplanck, William E., 202
antiwar movement, 144–45, 188, 190, 193, 196–200, 202
albums, 132
voice, 40
“Waist Deep in the Big Muddy,” 39, 145, 195–97
Waist Deep in the Big Muddy and Other Love Songs, 193,195
Wallace, DeWitt, 203
Wallace, Mary, 58
Wall Street Journal, 209
Walter, Francis, 125
Walton, Mary, 59
War Resisters League, 200
Washboard Country Band Dance Tunes, liner notes, 162–64
Washington Post, 223
“Wasn’t That a Time?” 19, 27, 28,39, 102, 156, 227
Weavers, xiii, 24, 35, 36, 225, 226
attacks on, 122
communists and, 104, 109–10, 143
Daily Compass article on, 102, 107–8
Hays with, 17–20, 28–29, 102, 105–10, 125
New York World Telegram article on, 104, 109–10
overview, 17–22, 102–5, 121–22, 133, 240
politics and, 122
review for Communist Party, 109–10
at Village Vanguard, 102, 106–8, 121
World-Telegram article on, 102, 106–7
Weavers’ Gold, 32
Wein, George, 245
We Shall Overcome (album), 166
“We Shall Overcome,” 29–30,157,172, 185, 225, 242
We Shall Overcome: A Song That Changed the World (children’s book), xi
We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions, 233, 234
West Indian steel drums, 150, 151
“We Were Born in Fayette County,” 33
When the Mode of the Music Changes (peace calendar), 200
“When the Saints Go Marching In,” 107–8, 235
“When You’re Singing Just Be Yourself,” 159–60
“Where Have All the Flowers Gone,” 3, 32, 51, 185, 231
Where Have All the Flowers Gone: A Singalong Memoir (Seeger, Pete), xii, 57, 223, 231
Where Have All the Flowers Gone: The Songs of Pete Seeger, 229, 230
“Which Side Are You On?” 14, 93,120
white chauvinism, 143
“Why Do You Stand There in the Rain?” 68, 70
Wilkinson, Alec, 238
Wilson, Michael, 237
“Wimoweh,” 5, 18, 24, 107, 108, 240
“The Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues,” 88
Woltman, Frederick, 104
Woody Guthrie: A Life (Klein), 209
Woody Guthrie Folk Songs, 162
working people, 122. See also labor
work songs, 135. See also labor songs
black, 105
Negro Prison Camp Work Songs, 105
world
concert tour (1963–64), 33–34, 36, 167, 170–71
music, 201
young people of, 201
World-Telegram article, 102,106–7
World War II, 12,16–17, 69,114,120, 144, 153, 239
“Worried Man Blues,” 199
writings, xii
“Yankee Doodle,” 153
Yorktown concert controversy, 187–88
young people. See also students of world, 201
Yurchenco, Henrietta, 70
Zaiger, Karl Ludwig, 43