After the events of A Complete Unknown, Pete Seeger went on to a long and successful career in both music and activism.

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 ...

Pete Seeger, a man for whom the modifier “legendary” seems hopelessly inadequate, had many Jewish associations in a career that spanned seven decades. Today began on a sad note with news that ...

As an activist himself, Norton said he “admired [Seeger] enormously” and felt an “alignment” with him, especially when he was in his early 20s. “He was the guy who cleaned up the Hudson ...

Bob Dylan has always had a fraught relationship with the world of progressive social change. He wrote some of the most ...

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.” ...

NEW YORK CITY, March 29--Pete Seeger '40 was found guilty this after-noon on ten counts for contempt of Congress. He faces the possibility of up to a $100 fine and a year in jail on each count.

Pete Seeger didn't like singing by himself. It wasn't just that he contributed his tenor (and banjo picking) to two seminal folk groups — the Almanac Singers (with Woody Guthrie) and The Weavers ...

NEW YORK CITY, March 27--Balladeer Pete Seeger's long-delayed trial for contempt of Congress finally got under way today before Judge Murphy in a U.S. District Court here. The ten-count indictment ...