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

One of Bob Dylan's first New York connections, "America's tuning fork" Pete Seeger, is depicted in the new Dylan biopic A ...

Wilkes-Barre-based folk musician and songwriter Don Shappelle can recall an early, formative moment in his musical journey.

Toward the end of A Complete Unknown, a good biopic about Bob Dylan that opened on Christmas, there is a key scene in which ...

The Penguin Encyclopedia of Popular Music described the politics of Pete Seeger ... that did not disturb or threaten the citadels of power. Seeger campaigned for civil rights, but he rejected ...

The artist born Robert Zimmerman may not have acknowledged his debt to her, but Seeger is widely regarded as a foundational ...

Though A Complete Unknown is about Bob Dylan, the film also dives deep into the life of Pete Seeger ... protest song. As an activist himself, Norton said he “admired [Seeger] enormously ...

Or so says Seeger. As we find out in the following scenes, Dylan does what he wants, and performs three songs on his electric ... results in popular music—and Pete Seeger was the catalyst.” ...