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Pete Seeger

Pete Seeger. Life. Was born in New York on May, 3 rd 1919 Father was a Musicologist Studied Sociology at Harvard University Was a member of the Communist Party Traveled the American South collecting and recording traditional songs. After Service.

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Pete Seeger

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  1. Pete Seeger

  2. Life • Was born in New York on May, 3rd 1919 • Father was a Musicologist • Studied Sociology at Harvard University • Was a member of the Communist Party • Traveled the American South collecting and recording traditional songs

  3. After Service • Formed the People’s Songs after his service in the war • Published successful radical music material • Was tried for inciting communist ideologies in his music in 1956 • Case was dismissed and he was released from prison in 1962

  4. Music and Present Day • Started publishing music about the environment in the late Cold War • One of the first to bring Environmental issues forward through song • Today he is 82 and a member of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism

  5. Citations Gosden, Steve. "Pete Seeger." « EcoTopia. Ecotopia, n.d. Web. 10 Sept. 2012. <http://ecotopia.org/ecology-hall-of- fame/pete-seeger/>. "Spartacus Educational." Spartacus Educational. N.p., n.d. Web. 10 Sept. 2012. <http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAseeger.htm>.

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