After the events of A Complete Unknown, Pete Seeger went on to a long and successful career in both music and activism.
Pete Seeger didn't like singing by himself. It wasn't just that he contributed his tenor (and banjo picking) to two seminal folk groups — the Almanac Singers (with Woody Guthrie) and The Weavers ...
Bob Dylan has always had a fraught relationship with the world of progressive social change. He wrote some of the most ...
TheWrap magazine: Director James Mangold said, “Go out and mine Pete Seeger and bring me back a bunch of gold,” says the actor ...
Wilkes-Barre-based folk musician and songwriter Don Shappelle can recall an early, formative moment in his musical journey.
The Penguin Encyclopedia of Popular Music described the politics of Pete Seeger, the folk-singer, songwriter, and antiwar activist who died last week at the age of 94, as “naïve but honest.” ...
From Pete Seeger to Billie Holiday to Rage Against the Machine to Kendrick Lamar, musicians of all genres have spoken truth to power ...
It took a while for the Popular Front’s strategy to get results in popular music—and Pete Seeger was the catalyst.” Seeger joined the Communist Party in 1942 and, in time, learned to make ...
Film director James Mangold also tells Esther McCarthy why he focused on that crucial early period in Dylan's career ...
The real-life people who show up in the movie A Complete Unknown, about young Bob Dylan, inspired a look at Pete Seeger's appearance on CBC-TV in 1965.