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How Can I Keep from Singing? - by  David King Dunaway (Paperback) - 1 of 1

How Can I Keep from Singing? - by David King Dunaway (Paperback)

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  • How Can I Keep from Singing?
  • About the Author: David King Dunaway was born in Greenwich Village in New York City.
  • 560 Pages
  • Biography + Autobiography, Music

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About the Book



Published to coincide with the documentary "Peter Seeger: The Power of Song, How Can I Keep from Singing?" is a completely rewritten and updated version of the award-winning biography of the folk legend and political activist.



Book Synopsis



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 Updated with new research and interviews, unpublished photographs, and thoughtful comments from Pete Seeger himself, this is an inside history of the man Carl Sandburg called "America's Tuning Fork."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

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, "We all owe our careers to him." But Seeger'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.

"This biography is a beauty. It captures not only the life of the bard but the world of which he sings."
-Studs Terkel

"A fine and meticulous biography . . . Dunaway has taken [Seeger's] materials and woven them into a detailed, interesting, and well-written narrative of a most fascinating life."
-American Music

"An extraordinary tale of an extraordinary man [that] will intrigue not only his legions of followers but everyone interested in one man's battles and victories."
-Chicago Sun-Times



About the Author



David King Dunaway was born in Greenwich Village in New York City. He attended the universities of Aix-en-Provence, France, Wisconsin, and California, where he received Berkeley's first PhD in American studies. At the University of New Mexico, Dr. Dunaway taught biography and broadcasting, and he has been a Fulbright senior lecturer at the University of Nairobi, University of Copenhagen, and the National University of Colombia. Author and editor of a half-dozen volumes of history and biography, he consults on and produces national radio series for public radio.

Pete Seeger (1919-2014), legendary folk singer and peace advocate, issued approximately one hundred records and wrote or worked on dozens of books. He also collaborated on numerous radical songbooks and articles.

Dimensions (Overall): 8.2 Inches (H) x 5.5 Inches (W) x 1.1 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.04 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 560
Genre: Biography + Autobiography
Sub-Genre: Music
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Format: Paperback
Author: David King Dunaway
Language: English
Street Date: March 18, 2008
TCIN: 90815474
UPC: 9780345506085
Item Number (DPCI): 247-46-7938
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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