#pete-seeger — Public Fediverse posts
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Little Boxes ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀
#PeteSeeger
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Today's performance with #PabloShineQuintet at the Kingston NY Earth Fair has been moved inside to the new #TempoPAC. I always wanted to play the Clearwater Festival and thinking about it's founders and principles today. 🌎 #kingstonny #EarthFair #ClearwaterFestival #PeteSeeger #ToshiSeeger
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Besser spaet als nie! Alle lieder der 12. roten Note zu #Solidarity vor zwei Wochen jetzt auch auf Masto.
#radio #podcast #rotenote #rn #rot #links #linke #solidarität #fredrikvahle #musik #philosophie #musikgeschichte #kampflieder #revolution #communism #kommunismus #bühler #peteseeger #wüstewelle #wuestewelle #tuebingen #tübingen #reutlingen #rottenburg #arbeiterlieder #hanneswader #Barleycorn #estaca #solidarnosc #gerwerkschaft #gewerkschaften #brecht #sonne #sonnenaufgang
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On 3 May 1919: #PeteSeeger, American folk #singer (The Weavers - "Goodnight Irene") and activist, helped create the modern American folk music movement, born in New York City (d. 2014).
#HappyBirthday #RIP 🕊️🤍 -
20 years ago today, Columbia Records releases #BruceSpringsteen's 14th studio album "We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions", a tribute to folk music pioneer #PeteSeeger.
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"Gotta Travel On" is an American #folksong. The earliest known version was printed in #CarlSandburg's #TheAmericanSongbag in 1927 under the title "Yonder Comes the High Sheriff" and several variations were recorded in the 1920s, but the best known version is credited to #PaulClayton, #TheWeavers, Larry Ehrlich, and Dave Lazer and was first recorded by #PeteSeeger in 1958. A 1958 recording by #BillyGrammer backed by the #AnitaKerr Singers reached #4 on the #USPopChart.
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World War Two was the archetypal good war. And ask any liberal, FDR was the archetypal good president. But don't ask Millard Lampell, Lee Hays, Pete Seeger, and Woody Guthrie -- The Almanac Singers.[1] They released Songs for John Doe[2] in 1941 and it's full of anti-draft, anti-war, anti-FDR songs, inspired by the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, the first peacetime conscription law ever enacted in the US.[3]
And are you afraid to fight, Billy boy, Billy boy?
Are you afraid to fight, charming Billy?
You can comе around to me when England's a democracy...[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Almanac_Singers
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songs_for_John_Doe
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_Training_and_Service_Act_of_1940
#ProtestSongs #AlmanacSingers #BillyBoy #WorldWar2 #WW2 #Conscription #SelectiveService #WoodyGuthrie #PeteSeeger #FolkMusic
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World War Two was the archetypal good war. And ask any liberal, FDR was the archetypal good president. But don't ask Millard Lampell, Lee Hays, Pete Seeger, and Woody Guthrie -- The Almanac Singers.[1] They released Songs for John Doe[2] in 1941 and it's full of anti-draft, anti-war, anti-FDR songs, inspired by the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, the first peacetime conscription law ever enacted in the US.[3]
And are you afraid to fight, Billy boy, Billy boy?
Are you afraid to fight, charming Billy?
You can comе around to me when England's a democracy...[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Almanac_Singers
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songs_for_John_Doe
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_Training_and_Service_Act_of_1940
#ProtestSongs #AlmanacSingers #BillyBoy #WorldWar2 #WW2 #Conscription #SelectiveService #WoodyGuthrie #PeteSeeger #FolkMusic
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Time to dust off a bunch of old songs which are sadly still all too relevant.
Waist Deep in the Big Muddy by Pete Seeger.
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Well, I'm not going to point any moral;
I'll leave that for yourself
Maybe you're still walking, you're still talking
You'd like to keep your health
But every time I read the papers
That old feeling comes on;
We're -- waist deep in the Big Muddy
And the big fool says to push on -
"The Powerful Messages That Woody Guthrie & Pete Seeger Inscribed on Their Guitar & Banjo: 'This Machine Kills Fascists' and 'This Machine Surrounds Hate and Forces it to Surrender'
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Guthrie was deeply embedded in the formative racial politics of the country. While some people may convince themselves that a time in the U.S. past was “great”—unmarred by class conflict and racist violence and exploitation, secure in the hands of a benevolent white majority—Guthrie’s life tells a much more complex story. Many Indigenous people feel with good reason that Guthrie’s most famous song, 'The Land is Your Land,' has contributed to nationalist mythology. Others have viewed the song as a Marxist anthem. Like much else about Guthrie, and the country, it’s complicated.
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But whether socialist or populist in nature, Guthrie’s patriotism was always subversive. 'By 1940,' writes John Pietaro, he had 'joined forces with Pete Seeger in the Almanac Singers,' who 'as a group, joined the Communist Party. Woody’s guitar had, by then, been adorned with the hand-painted epitaph, THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS.' (Guthrie had at least two guitars with the slogan scrawled on them, one on a sticker and one with ragged hand-lettering.) The phrase, claims music critic Jonny Whiteside, was originally 'a morale-boosting WWII government slogan printed on stickers that were handed out to defense plant workers.' Guthrie reclaimed the propaganda for folk music’s role in the culture.
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Guthrie’s long-lived brother-in-arms Pete Seeger, carried on in the tradition of anti-fascism and anti-racism after Woody succumbed in the last two decades of his life to Huntington’s disease. Like Guthrie, Seeger painted a slogan around the rim of his instrument of choice, the banjo, a message both playful and militant: 'This machine surrounds hate and forces it to surrender.'
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Both Guthrie and Seeger drew direct connections between the fascism and racism they fought and capitalism’s outsized, destructive obsession with land and money. They felt so strongly about the battle that they wore their messages figuratively on their sleeves and literally on their instruments. Pete Seeger’s famous banjo has outlived its owner, and the colorful legend around it has been mass-produced by Deering Banjos. Where Guthrie’s anti-fascist guitars went off to is anyone’s guess, but if one of them were ever discovered, Robert Santelli writes, 'it surely would become one of America’s most valued folk instruments.' Or one of its most valued instruments in general."
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On 27 Jan 2014: #PeteSeeger, American folk #singer (The Weavers - "Goodnight Irene") and activist, helped create the modern American folk music movement, died at 94.
#RIP 🕊️🪦🎚️🕯️ -
January 23, 1970 - Called as witnesses, folksingers Judy Collins, Country Joe McDonald, Arlo Guthrie, Phil Ochs, and Pete Seeger were denied permission to sing as part of their testimony for the defense at the trial of "The Chicago Seven."
Seven leaders of demonstrations at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago were being tried for conspiring to incite a riot as they protested the Vietnam war.
#ChicagoSeven #JudyCollins #CountryJoeMcDonald #PhilOchs #PeteSeeger #ArloGuthrie
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"If I Had a Hammer (The Hammer Song)" is a #protestSong written by #PeteSeeger and #LeeHays. It was written in 1949 in support of the #ProgressiveMovement, and was first recorded by #theWeavers, a #folkMusic quartet composed of Seeger, Hays, #RonnieGilbert, and #FredHellerman. It was a No. 10 hit for #PeterPaulAndMary in 1962 and then went to No. 3 a year later when recorded by #TriniLopez in 1963. In a May 1963 interview on Folk Music Worldwide, #PaulStookey of Peter.
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On 18 Jan 2009: "We Are One" concert at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington prior to #BarackObama's inauguration attracts an estimated crowd of 400,000; performers include: #Beyoncé, #JonBonJovi, #GarthBrooks, #MariahCarey, #JoshGroban, #HerbieHancock, #JohnLegend, #PeteSeeger and #BruceSpringsteen, #U2, and #StevieWonder.
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On 17 January 1996: 11th Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees: #DavidBowie; Jefferson Airplane; Little Willie John; #GladysKnight and the Pips; #PinkFloyd; The Shirelles; The Velvet Underground; #PeteSeeger; and Tom Donahue.
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Heut um 21Uhr auf der #wuestewelle eine #rotenote mit wenig Gelabber und viel #Musik
Schaltet euer #Radio auf 96,6 in #Tubingen #Reutlingen #Rottenburgamneckar
für 1Stunde Lieder für eine bessere Welt, wir widmen uns 15 KlassikernNachhören in der Mediathek oder im Archiv auf agathemulot.fr
#Kampflieder #geschichte #podcast #horenswert #international #peteseeger #protest #antifa #noafd #gleichheit #utopie #revolution #kampf #mastomusic #linke #links #politik #arbeiter
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“Little Boxes” popularized by #PeteSeeger and written by #MalvinReynolds is literally a satirical song about conformity, the middle class, and suburbs.
There is no folk song that you can choose that would ever be appropriate for a commercial. It’s an insult to the entire genre, not just to the memories of these two musicians, to use this song in this way.
Time for a blog post because I’m very upset.
#FolkMusic #PeteSeeger #LittleRedSongbook #IWW #Business #Marketing #BusinessEthics
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I don’t know if it’s one of his kids or just a random publishing company, but whoever is controlling the song rights to Pete Seeger’s music has decided to completely defile his memory by letting Dunkin Donuts use a song about the horrors of commercialism and capitalism destroying individuality in a new cutesy coffee commercial.
This is so wrong on so many levels.
#FolkMusic #PeteSeeger #LittleRedSongbook #IWW #Business #Marketing #BusinessEthics (or lack thereof)
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#Gay #Communist and #UnionActivist! Grampa Walton — #WillGeer: a #Radical with Woody Guthrie, et al
"[Will Geer] began his acting career touring in tent shows and on river boats.
"Geer was also the lover of #GayActivist #HarryHay. In 1934, Hay met Geer at the Tony Pastor Theatre, where Geer worked as an actor. They became lovers, and Hay credited Geer as his political mentor. Hay and Geer participated in a milk strike in Los Angeles, where Hay was first exposed to #RadicalGay #Activism in the person of '#Clarabelle,' a #DragQueen who held court in the Bunker Hill neighborhood, who hid Hay from police.
"Geer made his Broadway debut as Pistol in a 1928 production of Much Ado About Nothing, created the role of Mr. Mister in Marc Blitzstein’s The Cradle Will Rock, played Candy in John Steinbeck’s theatrical adaptation of his novella Of Mice and Men, and appeared in numerous plays and revues throughout the 1940s. From 1948 to 1951, he appeared in more than a dozen movies, including Winchester ’73, Broken Arrow, Comanche Territory (1950) and Bright Victory.
"Geer became a member of the #CommunistParty of the United States in 1934. Geer was also influential in introducing Harry Hay to organizing in the Communist Party.
"Geer became a dedicated activist, touring government work camps in the 1930s with folk singers like #BurlIves and #WoodyGuthrie (whom he introduced to the People’s World and the #DailyWorker; Guthrie would go on to write a column for the latter paper). In 1956, the duo released an album together on Folkways Records, titled Bound for Glory: Songs and Stories of Woody Guthrie. In his biography, fellow organizer and gay rights pioneer Harry Hay described Geer’s activism and outlined their activities while organizing for the strike. Geer is credited with introducing Guthrie to #PeteSeeger at the ‘Grapes of Wrath’ benefit Geer organized in 1940 for #MigrantFarmWorkers.
"Geer did summer stock at the Pine Brook Country Club located in the countryside of Nichols, Connecticut with the Group Theatre (New York) studying under Lee Strasberg.
"Geer was blacklisted in the early 1950s for refusing to testify before the House Committee on #UnAmerican Activities. As a result, Geer appeared in very few films over the following decade. Notable among them was Salt of the Earth which was produced, directed, written, and starring blacklisted Hollywood personnel and told the story of a miners’ #strike in New Mexico from a pro-#union standpoint."
#TheWaltons #GrandpaWalton #GBLTQ #GBLTQActors #Activists #RedScare
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"When will tey ever learn?" aus "Where have all the Flowers gone" von Pete Seeger.
Die ersten Angriffe auf uns Menschen erfolgen bereits... nicht nur in den Nobelvororten von Los Angeles
Wir würden uns so sehr freuen, wenn das Thema "Fossile Energien" so schnell wie möglich begraben wird.
Lasst uns gemeinsam dafür einstehen, nachhaltige Energien als das zu begreifen, was sie sind Freiheits-Energien.#PeteSeeger #KlimaKrise #Weihnachten2025 #KeepTheFossilsInTheGround #NoOil #NoOilOilAndGas #ErdErhitzung #TreibhausGasEmissionen #THG #Unwetter #Extremwetter #Überschwemmung #LosAngeles #USA #ClimateJustice #KlimaGerechtigkeit
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If you're looking for something along the same lines, I'm a huge fan of this #Yiddish #AntifaAF #Folk classic performed by #PeteSeeger
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#OnThisDay in 1994, Kennedy Center Honors ceremony held for actor #KirkDouglas, singer #ArethaFranklin, composer #MortonGould, theater producer-director Harold Prince, and folk singer-songwriter #PeteSeeger, in Washington D.C.
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Folk musician Pete Seeger had a custom banjo bridge made for him by legendary luthier Stu Jamieson. The bridge was designed to transfer more vibration from the strings up and into the center of the banjo head, making the head act like a conical speaker to project more sound, making it sound clearer in the process. It did this by using two light-weight legs to reach up toward the center of the banjo. It was originally made from printed circuit board material so that it didn't dull the sound with extra weight.
Only two bridges were ever made: one for Jamieson and one for Seeger. Jamieson's bridge was attached to a banjo that was stolen out of his car. The other bridge, on Seeger's famous handmade long neck banjo, was seen by millions of people.
Future attempts to make this bridge were fraught with problems, not least of which was getting a hold of Jamieson's original plans for the bridge and learning how to make it consistently. The other major issue was overcoming the fact that most modern computer chip material was toxic to work with.
I have tried to solve both of these problems in a new project located here: https://codeberg.org/abmurrow/pete-seeger-bridge
This repo contains high-quality 2d and 3d CAD models of the bridge plans as extracted from Jamieson's original bridge plans and are within ~0.5 mm of tolerance to the originals.
Now, you can download these plans, feed them into a CNC router or a 3d printer (with some modifications) and make the bridge Jamieson one day hoped could be mass manufactured.
The material sourcing issue is solved by using G10 fiberglass and carbon fiber plates, neither of which contain the heavy chemicals required to make and process modern computer chips.
