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Sunday, March 1, 2009
The Power of Song
PBS is airing an American Masters program on Pete Seeger that really brings back the good old days. Try to see it if you can.
Sure....Except the part where they throw rocks at 'ol Pete. Thanks Pete Seeger, for all that work you did for music, labor and civil rights. Folk music had a much different place in the 40's and 50's than I imagined.
That was an amazing scene with his kids in the car.
I also was really impressed by when he was called before the HUAC and they asked him the usual are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist party? His answer was something like that's not the kind of question this country should ever ask of a citizen. Ever. So they pressed him -- does that mean you were? And he just insisted, it's not the right question to ask.
What an inspiration fighting for peace and social justice.
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Sure....Except the part where they throw rocks at 'ol Pete.
Thanks Pete Seeger, for all that work you did for music, labor and civil rights. Folk music had a much different place in the 40's and 50's than I imagined.
That was an amazing scene with his kids in the car.
I also was really impressed by when he was called before the HUAC and they asked him the usual are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist party? His answer was something like that's not the kind of question this country should ever ask of a citizen. Ever. So they pressed him -- does that mean you were? And he just insisted, it's not the right question to ask.
What an inspiration fighting for peace and social justice.
Oh, yeah, and his singing of Waist Deep in the Big Muddy felt like the past isn't dead -- it isn't even past.
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