Pete Seeger Dies (About Sixties folk music, which I liked at the time, someone once said that it was the very unusual case of an entire art form being hijacked and re-purposed into Marxist agitprop. Aside from union organizing, the people of Appalachia and other areas of traditional folk music were not bastions of Leftists. In this also, as in Hollywood, very powerful were the feverishly busy guiding hands of the Tribe. I tip my hat to his environmental efforts, but ultimately Marxism and open borders/overpopulation is a death sentence for nature.)

Pete Seeger: America's celebrated folk music 'archive'

New York (AFP) - A rail-thin New York radical who loved folk music, Pete Seeger loathed the business side and stuck by his principles, influencing younger stars like Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and Bruce Springsteen.

Seeger died on Monday at the age of 94, leaving behind classics like "Where Have All the Flowers Gone" and "If I Had a Hammer," laying out his vision of what the United States can and should be.

Dubbed "America's tuning fork" by poet Carl Sandburg, the bald and bearded banjo-playing tenor brought a feast of material to US musical culture.

He adapted a Negro spiritual for the civil rights anthem "We Shall Overcome" and a passage from the book of Ecclesiastes for the Byrds hit "Turn! Turn! Turn!"

Briefly a communist and a life-long activist for social and environmental issues, he was indicted for contempt of Congress in 1957 while playing, recording and listening to songs by those at the bottom of the ladder.

"My job is to show folks there's a lot of good music in this world and if used right it may help save the planet," The New York Times quoted Seeger as saying. . . .

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