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Article: Seeger, Pete
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Pete Seeger
Singer, songwriter, banjo player
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Selected discography
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The indomitable Pete Seeger has weathered a number of storms to become, at age seventy, the most influential folk artist in America. Seeger was instrumental in popularizing both the five-string banjo and the songs of populist America that could be played on it; his own works such as
“
If I Had a Hammer,
”
“
We Shall Overcome,
”
and
“
Where Have All the Flowers Gone?
”
served as anthems in the anti-establishment protests of the late 1960s. In
Best of the Music Makers,
George T. Simon calls Seeger
“
an uncanny mixture of saint, ...