WALL-TO-WALL MUSIC DRIVES 'SEEGER' FILM.(What's Happening)

From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Date: September 21, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

Byline: BILL WHITE Special to the P-I

Unlike Jane Fonda, Pete Seeger is not about to apologize for his trip to Hanoi during the Vietnam War.

One thing that comes across strongly in Jim Brown's documentary, "Pete Seeger: The Power of Song," is the consistency of the folksinger's beliefs throughout a long and turbulent career. He didn't quit The Weavers when they were blacklisted for their leftist politics; he quit when they did a cigarette commercial.

Whenever Seeger came up against a wall, he opened a door. Banned from network television, he produced his own folk ...

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