• There is a Season: The Pete Seeger Podcast

  • By: Adam C. Morse
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There is a Season: The Pete Seeger Podcast

By: Adam C. Morse
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  • There is a Season: The Pete Seeger Podcast is dedicated to rediscovering and helping to further uncover the music, work and politics of the late American folk musician, Pete Seeger. This show's objective is to evaluate Pete Seeger's life, music and political work, and in doing so to consider how we might further apply Pete Seeger's work and music in contemporary times. On the show we investigate Seeger's musical and political socialization, activism, records and performances, and navigating censorship over the years with the reactionary media and U.S. government.
    Adam C. Morse 2023
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Episodes
  • Introduction to the Podcast

    Introduction to the Podcast
    Nov 11 2023

    Welcome to the show! This four minute introductory episode informs folks of what topics, ideas and objectives this podcast will have.
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    4 mins
  • Pete Seeger's Early Years: Music, Politics and the Banjo

    Pete Seeger's Early Years: Music, Politics and the Banjo
    Nov 19 2023

    This episode delves into Pete Seeger's early years growing up in upstate New York and at boarding school; his political worldview as channeled through his educational experiences and his father, Charles; Pete's discovery of the 4 and 5 string banjo in the 1930s; and his attending and dropping out of Harvard.
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    49 mins
  • Seeger in New York City - Leadbelly & Woody Guthrie

    Seeger in New York City - Leadbelly & Woody Guthrie
    Dec 17 2023

    This episode investigates Pete's musical and political discoveries between 1938 and 1941. We look at Pete in New York City after leaving Harvard, his meeting Lead Belly, his work and travels with Woody Guthrie, and his own independent explorations riding freight trains and hitching rides as a budding musician.
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    46 mins
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