After the events of A Complete Unknown, Pete Seeger went on to a long and successful career in both music and activism.
Pete Seeger didn't like singing by himself ... performing in front of crowds large and small. The American folk music legend died Monday at age 94 of natural causes. His wife of 70 years, Toshi ...
TheWrap magazine: Director James Mangold said, “Go out and mine Pete Seeger and bring me back a bunch of gold,” says the actor ...
Bob Dylan has always had a fraught relationship with the world of progressive social change. He wrote some of the most ...
In Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown, James Mangold uses Dylan's mentors Pete Seeger, Joan Baez and Johnny Cash to signpost ...
From Pete Seeger to Billie Holiday to Rage Against the Machine to Kendrick Lamar, musicians of all genres have spoken truth to power ...
Film director James Mangold also tells Esther McCarthy why he focused on that crucial early period in Dylan's career ...
10 Years Ago: Bruce Springsteen Pays Tribute to a Folk Music Hero on 'We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions' Even at a time when artists were pretty much required to turn out a new album every ...
It took a while for the Popular Front’s strategy to get results in popular music—and Pete Seeger was the catalyst.” Seeger joined the Communist Party in 1942 and, in time, learned to make ...
The Penguin Encyclopedia of Popular Music described the politics of Pete Seeger, the folk-singer, songwriter, and antiwar activist who died last week at the age of 94, as “naïve but honest.” ...
The great folksong revival of the 1940s through 1960s made rural white and African American artists and their music favorites of audiences everywhere. While key figures associated with the American ...
The makers of A Complete Unknown gave up trying to make the singer-songwriter sympathetic, and let his music – and a bravura ...