Pete Seeger in the Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library

A look at the life of controversial musician, activist, and environmentalist Pete Seeger, and how he used his songs to promote social change. Includes archival footage and interviews with Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Joan Baez, Arlo Guthrie, and more.

Combines talking heads with rare archival footage and new live performances to tell a story about a community that created a generation-defining music. Greenwich Village was the birthplace of the singer-songwriter, and songs of love and relationships. Many musicians in The Village banded together to sing about the radical social upheaval of the time.

"The wit, wisdom - and song - of one of America's best known bards comes to life in this program, which offers a rousing musical portrait of the beloved and often controversial folk singer, songwriter, storyteller, and activist. On the eve of Seeger's 75th birthday, Bill Moyers visited him at his home in New York's Hudson Valley for a warm and often wryly funny conversation about his life and times, and the music that has both reflected and impacted them. Throughout the program, Seeger's guitar and banjo are never far from his hands, and he strums and sings his way through some of the songs that have meant the most to him in his life.

The well-known folk singer explores the appeal, traditions, significance and performers of folk music from America, Asia, Europe and Africa, and discusses aspects of the modern folk revival.

Tells the story of the civil rights movement. Documenting the sit-ins, freedom rides and marches that occurred along the path to triumph in an uncertain age, this book focuses on the accounts of people involved and the songs that inspired their struggle. It collects 40 songs and includes profiles of activists.

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 Updated with new research and interviews, unpublished photographs, and thoughtful comments from Pete Seeger himself, this is an inside history of the man Carl Sandburg called “America’s Tuning Fork.”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.