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interviews, unpublished photographs, and thoughtful comments from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
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