How Can I Keep from Singing: Pete Seeger
by Dunaway, David King
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0070181500
- ISBN 13
- 9780070181502
- Seller
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Newton, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
New York: McGraw Hill, 1981. First Edition with full numberline 8vo size hardcover with dust jacket; 386 pages including index and two sections of black and white photographs From dust jacket: "(Pete) Seeger's considerable musical achievements have been overshadowed by political controversy. He was one of the first musicians in American history to be investigated for sedition. He had an agonizing clash with the House Committee on Un-American Activities, which began seven grinding years of court battles. The FBI and CIA conducted secret campaigns against Pete Seeger and folk song performers... (This volume includes) an inside history of blacklisting in the music industry in the bad old days; previously classified FBI files on Seeger and his friends; facts about Seeger's involvement with the Communist Party." Singer, songwriter and activist Pete Seeger ( 1919 - 2014) was the recipient of numerous honors including a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, National Medal of Arts and Kennedy Center Honor. Some of his most popular songs include Where Have All the Flowers Gone, If I Had a Hammer and Turn, Turn, Turn. Ex-library with typical treatments, many blacked out. Jacket is covered with mylar. There are tape transfer marks on endpapers and inside covers and a small hole to the mylar on back cover; dusty top and fingermark on bottom of book. . First. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.
Synopsis
Includes bibliographical references (p. [459]-476), discography (p. [477]-491), and index.
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- Seller
- Charity Bookstall (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 006565
- Title
- How Can I Keep from Singing: Pete Seeger
- Author
- Dunaway, David King
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First
- ISBN 10
- 0070181500
- ISBN 13
- 9780070181502
- Publisher
- McGraw Hill
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1981
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- First Edition; 1st Edition; biography; Pete Seeger; singer; Folk Music;activist;
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography; Music; First Editions;
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