Tribute to Pete Seeger on his 90th Birthday

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Pete Seeger What Did You Learn In School?

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Camp the late 50’s early 60’s. The camp counselors, most of them were musicians that played guitars, banjo, drums, piano, flute (I was so blessed to be sent to this camp) and sung folk songs around camp fires or indoors when raining.  It was my first introduction to Pete Seeger and Woodie Guthrie songs and music, and others of the same genre, If I had a Hammer, This Land is Your Land. It was music that brought people together. It was also my first major influence and awareness of social change and “perceived” norms at large; the counselors quietly reflected the beatnik movement.
 
My early adolescent years listing to AM radio blasting out the backyard window with Seeger songs Turn Turn Turn. In my early ‘hippie’ years the songs continued to influence change; again no matter who sung them, my adolescent years had quickly turned into young adult hood and activism with the influence of the times. The huge movement for freedom and love, against capitalism, conservatism, social justice, ‘the summers of LOVE”, flowers and all, were massive, with sit-in’s, protests, culture change and shock and the Vietnam War protests that eventually emerged as well with ” Where Have all the Flowers Gone”.
 
The influence of the songs and the events that occurred during these years has had a profound and positive effect on my life, albeit often a controversial one as has been Pete Seeger’s. Who could say it better than Pete “Down through the centuries, this trick has been tried by various establishments throughout the world. They force people to get involved in the kind of examination that has only one aim and that is to stamp out dissent”. Pete Seeger encouraged me to get involved in dissent and activism, not sit by the way side or stamp it out. Happy Birthday Pete Seeger!
 
For more history and concert info:
 
http://www.peteseeger.net/
 
http://www.peteseeger.net/concerts.htm

This short Tribute was published on http://globalpundit.org/2009/05/02/happy-90th-birthday-pete-seeger-special-content/ @ http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/271767

Cheryl Benson