For the next two years he explored the world of folk music, meeting musicians like Huddie “Lead Belly” Ledbetter and Woody Guthrie, and in 1940 he and Guthrie, along with Lee Hays, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, founded the Almanac Singers. Pete Seeger attended Harvard College for two years, where he studied sociology, but he dropped out in 1938. His half-brother Mike Seeger and half-sister Peggy Seeger also became distinguished folk musicians. Charles Seeger's second wife, Pete Seeger's stepmother, was the important avant-garde composer and compiler of folk songs Ruth Crawford Seeger. He was also constantly enmeshed in controversy because of his leftist political views. His father Charles Seeger was one of the great figures of American musicology and ethnomusicology, an enthusiastic scholar of folk music and a proselyte for what he called "Proleterian Music". He grew up in an environment full of music and aggressive left-wing politics. Pete Seeger was born in New York City on May 3, 1919.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |