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Power, indeed!(The First Words ...)(Pete Seeger: The Power of Song)(Movie review)
From:
Sing Out!
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January 1, 2008| Author:
Moss, Mark D.
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This may be an odd location in the magazine for a film review, but Jim Brown's latest offering, Pete Seeger: The Power of Song, is not exactly your average folk film fare. And given how closely his subject's ties are to these pages, I hope you'll forgive this indulgence.
Let me start with an unqualified "bravo" for what is surely Brown's crowning jewel in a long list of excellent films that focus on folk music (including the Emmy Award-winning Wasn't That A Time, his 19...