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 Updated with new research and interviews; unpublished photographs; and thoughtful comments from Pete Seeger himself; this is an inside history of the man Carl Sandburg called ldquo;Americarsquo;s Tuning Fork.rdquo; 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; ldquo;We all owe our careers to him.rdquo; But Seegerrsquo;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.ldquo;This biography is a beauty. It captures not only the life of the bard but the world of which he sings.rdquo;ndash;Studs Terkel ldquo;A fine and meticulous biography . . . Dunaway has taken [Seegerrsquo;s] materials and woven them into a detailed; interesting; and well-written narrative of a most fascinating life.rdquo;ndash;American Musicldquo;An extraordinary tale of an extraordinary man [that] will intrigue not only his legions of followers but everyone interested in one manrsquo;s battles and victories.rdquo;ndash;Chicago Sun-TimesFrom the Trade Paperback edition.
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