Pete Seeger - The Power of Song
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How can I keep from singing?
Pete Seeger has sung for peace and justice for generations.
Now there is a documentary of Pete Seeger's life entitled Pete Seeger - The Power of Song it has been shown on PBS and at Film festivals from Oklahoma to Vermont. Pete Seeger sang at Barack Obama's Inauguration Concert. Last year was Pete Seeger's 90th Birthday and there were concerts to celebrate all across the country. How can we teach our children about Pete Seeger's music and lifetime mission to bring peace to the world through song?
The lessons that Pete has been teaching need to be passed on to the next generation. In this lens you will find not only a link to the petition to nominate Pete Seeger for a Nobel Peace Prize but also suggestions on how you can teach peace to your children.
How can I keep from singing?
Pete Seeger inspires us to keep singing out about injustice.
Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
I first heard Pete Seeger on the radio singing "Little Boxes" about the way that farmland was being eaten up by suburban sprawl. That song made me think about the houses where Dick and Jane lived in my first grade reading books. I heard him sing "Who will feed the people when they take away my land." I saw farmlands in my home town turned into shopping centers and listened to Pete Seeger.
As I started to be old enough to understand the Vietnam War I listened to Where Have All the Flowers Gone and I knew in my heart and through his music that war was wrong.
Now I listen to "Peace, Peace will come. Peace will come and let it begin with me..." I sing along for the hope it brings my heart.
Pete Seeger just makes you want to sing along. The words to his songs touch your soul. When you hear him sing "How can I keep from singing?"
Pete Seeger's songs Promotes Peace to Future Generations
Pete Seeger's Stories of Peace
Pete Seeger sings Guantanamera (Live)
Pete Seeger's Storytelling Book
Most people know at least a handful of Pete Seeger songs, such as "Where Have All The Flowers Gone" and "The Hammer Song (penned with fellow Weaver Lee Hays). Most preschools own a copy of Pete's story-song "Abiyoyo". Well, now it's YOUR turn to be the storyteller!
Pete Seeger and Paul DuBois Jacobs give you pages and pages of wonderful stories, some Pete learned from his father, musicologist Charles Seeger, and many that were learned during his travels throughout the world.
My favorites are the sequel to "Abiyoyo" - yes, you heard it correctly - titled, "Abiyoyo Returns", and "The Intelligent Lightbulbs" (in which 4 lightbulbs literally go to school!). Also included are several story beginnings, with a gentle nudge by Pete and Paul to finish the stories yourself.
This book is a fantastic addition to any school or home library, and will provide the reader with hours and years of fun that they can share; maybe it'll even inspire a new generation of storytellers! by Charley
Pete Seeger's Storytelling Book
Amazon Price: $36.49 (as of 02/16/2012)
Promoting a Peaceful Room
Promoting Pete Seeger's ideas for Peace Visually
Tibetan Prayer Flags
You can promote Pete Seeger's ideas for peace visually by putting on some of Pete's music and decorating your room in a peaceful way.
Hang some Tibetan prayer flags outside the window where the breezes will blow the prayers to heaven. Read stories of peace and brainstorm ideas for writing and poetry.
Talk in a calm tone of voice and paint pictures of peace.
Photo Credit: Tibetan prayer flags, Samye Dzong London
on Flickr, Creative Commons.
You can promote Pete Seeger's ideas for peace visually by putting on some of Pete's music and decorating your room in a peaceful way.
Hang some Tibetan prayer flags outside the window where the breezes will blow the prayers to heaven. Read stories of peace and brainstorm ideas for writing and poetry.
Talk in a calm tone of voice and paint pictures of peace.
Prayer Flags; Set of Five Mixed Diety; Tibetan
Amazon Price: $12.00 (as of 02/16/2012)
Pete Seeger Videos
Pete Seeger has been singing along with people for generations. With these videos you can sing along with him. learn about the way music can move people to make a change in the world.
Sing for Peace, Justice and Human Rights.
Set up a movie theater in the classroom or in your Reading Nook with earphones to watch Pete Seeger in concert.
Then take the time to talk with your children about the meaning of the words of the songs and the ways that songs can help change the world into a more peaceful place to live.
Sing for Peace, Justice and Human Rights.
Set up a movie theater in the classroom or in your Reading Nook with earphones to watch Pete Seeger in concert.
Then take the time to talk with your children about the meaning of the words of the songs and the ways that songs can help change the world into a more peaceful place to live.
Pete Seeger in the News!
- Stookey of Peter, Paul and Mary fame comes to town
- Back when folk purists were turning their noses up at The Kingston Trio, Peter, Paul and Mary ? and folk-rock after that ? then-blacklisted ex-Weavers singer Pete Seeger wrote that a woman approached him and thanked him for ?never selling out.
- Duquette Is Leaving No Stone Unturned
- By Stan "The Fan" Charles In Pete Seeger's 1959 adaptation from the Book of Ecclesiastes -- Turn, Turn, Turn (To Everything There is a Season), the opening line reads -- "To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.
- Bristol's Stone Church Coffee House welcomes Atwater-Donnelly Trio
- They have performed with or shared festival billing with folk legends Jean Ritchie, Pete Seeger, and Doc Watson. Joining Aubrey and Elwood is the multi-talented, Cathy Clasper-Torch. Cathy is a remarkable fiddler, cellist and vocalist who, in a word, ...
- Indie Film: 'Dangerous Method' author's movie 'grounded in reality'
- Head down to Kennebunk at 6:30 tonight to catch this documentary about modern political protest music featuring performances and commentary from the likes of Pete Seeger, The Dixie Chicks, David Crosby, Steve Earle, Jello Biafra, Ani DiFranco and more.
There is a petition to nomimate Pete Seeger for a Nobel Peace Prize
The Pete Seeger Nobel Peace Prize Petition
Pete Seeger has been an ambassador for Peace and Social Justice over the course of his 90+ year lifetime.As a prominent musician his songs, messages and performance style have worked to engage other people, particularly the youth, in causes to end the Vietnam war, ban nuclear weapons, work for international solidarity, and ecological responsibility.
It is time that a cultural worker receives the recognition that this work has great influence and global reach, that it is not only a medium of entertainment but of education, compassion and action.
Photo Credit: Pete Seeger, Rick...
Available at Allposters
Click on this link to add your name to the Pete Seeger Petition
Pete Seeger deserves the Nobel Peace Prize
Make Me a Channel of Your Peace: The Nobel Peace Prize 100 Years
Among those who have voted to nominate Pete Seeger for the Nobel Peace Prize are those who wrote:
"Peter Seeger is a cultural treasure who has influenced more people than any politician on the planet to wage peace and social justice in the world." - Joan Gladstone Kramer
"Among all of the winners of, and nominees for, the Nobel Peace Prize over the years, I cannot imagine anyone more deserving of the Prize than Pete Seeger" - Stephen S. Henry
Please add your name and reasoning to the petition.
- A Nobel Peace Prize for Pete Seeger
- A Nobel Peace Prize for Pete is seeking volunteers, organizational and individual endorsements, photos, statements in support, and documents about Pete's life and work, etc., etc This campaign was launched by Eleanor Walden, a cultural activist in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Pete Seeger - The Power of Song
Combining never-before-seen archival footage and personal films made by Seeger and his wife Toshi, PETE SEEGER: THE POWER OF SONG chronicles the life of this legendary artist and political activist.The film serves as testament to Seeger's belief in the power of song above all else and his conviction that individuals can make a difference.
Musicians including Bruce Springsteen, Natalie Maines, Joan Baez, Bonnie Raitt, Tom Paxton and Peter, Paul and Mary appear in this intimate portrait and discuss Seeger's lasting influence on the fabric of American music.
PETE SEEGER: THE POWER OF SONG was directed by Jim Brown and produced by Jim Brown, Michael Cohl, and William Eigen.
Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
Pete Seeger at 89
Pete Seeger was nominated for a Grammy in the category of Best Traditional Folk Album, for the CD "At 89."
How many people have been able to effect so many people for so many years as Pete Seeger has?
Listen to Pete Seeger at 89
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Pete Seeger sings Christmas Carols
One of the things I have always loved about Pete Seeger is the way he introduces me to songs of other cultures. These songs inspire me to find out more into those cultures and expand my knowledge of the world.
Blog Posts about Pete Seeger
Blogging about Pete Seeger
- Stookey of Peter, Paul and Mary fame comes to town
- Back when folk purists were turning their noses up at The Kingston Trio, Peter, Paul and Mary ? and folk-rock after that ? then-blacklisted ex-Weavers singer Pete Seeger wrote that a woman approached him and thanked him for ?never selling out.
- Bristol's Stone Church Coffee House welcomes Atwater-Donnelly Trio
- They have performed with or shared festival billing with folk legends Jean Ritchie, Pete Seeger, and Doc Watson. Joining Aubrey and Elwood is the multi-talented, Cathy Clasper-Torch. Cathy is a remarkable fiddler, cellist and vocalist who, in a word, ...
- Local Hero
- "He has the social conscience of a Woody Guthrie or Pete Seeger or Bob Dylan; it's a unique combination." Like a Springsteen song, "From Asbury Park to the Promised Land" operates on an individual and societal level. Chockablock with personal artifacts ...
- A portrait of a politically-driven musician
- A number of artists took part in the cultural multimedia event, with Seeger contributing with what he knows best: protest music. ?I have been singing songs of protest all my life,? Seeger says recalling his grandfather Pete Seeger, an iconic protest ...
Pete Seeger sings Your Favorite Songs:
Vintage Pete Seeger
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Pete Seeger has spent a lifetime promoting peace.
Gifts to promote Peace
Think about the ways you promote peace in your daily life. How do you help your children learn to promote peace?
Teaching Peace Through Conflict Resolution
Using Pete Seeger's message in the Social Studies Class
There are many schools teaching Conflict Resolution Skills.
The Living Wisdom School teaches children how to resolve problems. Being able to resolve a problem you're having with someone else is far more important than whatever you were fighting about in the first place. It builds everyone's confidence. No one has been demeaned. Just think what a different world it would be, if we had all learned this as children!
Photo Credit: Conflict Resolution
on Flickr, Creative Commons
The Living Wisdom School teaches children how to resolve problems. Being able to resolve a problem you're having with someone else is far more important than whatever you were fighting about in the first place. It builds everyone's confidence. No one has been demeaned. Just think what a different world it would be, if we had all learned this as children!
Teaching Peace
Pete Seeger's Message of Peace on a Personal Level
Photo Credit: Circle time
on Flickr, Creative Commons
Conflict Resolution: Positive Actions helps students investigate mental, verbal, and physical conflict in today's classrooms. Tips and suggestions are included that will help develop strategies for handling, minimizing, and resolving conflict situations. Includes role-playing scenarios and useful dialogue suggestions.
Sing Along with Pete
Pete Seeger's songs for Children
Senator Glen Taylor and Pete Seeger Singing and Playing at Pac School
Available at Art.com
Make charts of these songs to sing at Circle Time. Suggest that Parents buy the CD's and play them in the car. Children will love to sing along and as soon as the know them will be able to start reading along with the charts, pointing to the words, and learning to read.
See Favorite Beginning Readers for more ideas on teaching how to read.
Pete Seeger for Children
Pete Seeger sings Children's Songs
Pete Seeger doesn't just sing for adults. Songs like Abiyoyo and Que Bonita Bandera are certainly children's favorites and help children begin to appreciate the people of other cultures. Abiyoyo comes from Africa and Que Bonita Bandera is catchy, patriotic song from Puerto Rico. Pete tells wonderful stories of his songs and invites others to sing along.
See Hands-on Learning for teaching ESL using music and rhythm sticks.
Pete Seeger Talks of Singing with Children
Abiyoyo
Linking Pete Seeger to the New Generation
- Abiyoyo
- This page has a copy of the story. Listen to the song in the background.
- Abiyoyo
- This 7-page documents includes 5 days of activities to support concepts using this book. Adobe Acrobat Reader or compatible application required for access.
- John's Music
- Celebrating Presussion Traditions From Around the World
Ideas to help teachers.
Pete Seeger's Books for Children
Read along to favorite song lyrics.
Pete Seeger in the News!
What's Pete Seeger up to now?
Tomorrow's Children Song-list
1. Quite Early Morning (with spoken introduction)
2. We Sing Out
3. There'll Come a Day
4. Solartopia (feat. Dar Williams (vocal))
5. Down by the River
6. River
7. Mastinchele Wachipi Olewan (The Rabbit Song)
8. The River that Flows Both Ways
9. I See Freedom
10. Take It from Dr. King
11. De Colores
12. It Really Isn't Garbage
13. English is Cuh-ray-zee
14. River Song (Back and Forth the Hudson Flows)
15. It's a Long Haul
16. We Shall Not Be Moved
17. Turn, Turn, Turn
18. Tomorrow's Children
19. Quite Early Morning
Mike Ragogna: Tomorrow's Children: A Conversation With Pete Seeger, Plus Chatting With Bill Frisell
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Peace Theme Math Manipulatives
Math brings even more meaning to Pete Seeger's Message of Peace
Use the Peace symbol beads and the heart beads to form patterns. Peace, love, peace, love, etc. Math is based on patterns. See how many different patterns your children can make.
Small Plastic Doves of Peace
Use these Doves of Peace when solving math problems, tallying acts of peace or when keeping track of the number of times the word peace is repeated in a song or poem.
Using Pete Seeger's Songs to Sing Your Way Into Reading
Singing can make young students better readers. When you take a song like Pete Seeger's Turn Turn Turn
Turn Turn Turn lyrics / Pete Seeger
To Everything (Turn, Turn, Turn)
There is a season (Turn, Turn, Turn)
And a time for every purpose, under Heaven
A time to be born, a time to dieA time to plant, a time to reap
A time to kill, a time to heal
A time to laugh, a time to weep
To Everything (Turn, Turn, Turn)
There is a season (Turn, Turn, Turn)
And a time for every purpose, under Heaven
A time to build up, a time to break down
A time to dance, a time to mourn
A time to cast away stones, a time to gather stones together
To Everything (Turn, Turn, Turn)
There is a season (Turn, Turn, Turn)
And a time for every purpose, under Heaven
A time of love, a time of hate
A time of war, a time of peace
A time you may embrace, a time to refrain from embracing
To Everything (Turn, Turn, Turn)
There is a season (Turn, Turn, Turn)
And a time for every purpose, under Heaven
A time to gain, a time to lose
A time to rend, a time to sew
A time to love, a time to hate
A time for peace, I swear it's not too late
Activities Make a chart and sing the song often with the children until they know it well.
1. Look for words that are repeated and ask children to use highlighter tape on them.
2. Make a copy of the song and put it into a three ring notebook in the classroom libray to be read during silent reading.
3. Make a class book of the contrasting ideas expressed in the song.
4. Make cards of opposites and play concentration. Put both pictures and words.
5. Start a compost bin with red wigglers and encourage the children to add apple cores etc. to turn into compost and later use the soil for planting.
6. Learn about gears and pullies
The Peaceful Woodlands Game
Pete Seeger lives in the Peaceful Woodlands of Upstate New York
For more Woodlands Themed ideas go to Woodlands.
The Peaceful Woodlands Game: Make a board game with woods and a graph pattern overlaying it. Glue green felt to the board and use a permanent black marker and yardstick to make a grid on the felt. It could look like a checker board. Make pictures of various animals with their names printed underneath and glue them to squares of cardboard. Make a photo album with the same names and blank squares for the photo to go. Make large black squares to represent darkness. Use a wooden 1" natural block to make a die.
Use the river rocks for Fung Shui counters. Using natural materials gives a peaceful feeling. Put the flannel board trees around the board. Place the pictures of animals around the board. Roll two wooden dice and move the stones through the Peaceful Woodlands where they encounter woodland animals. Each time they get to an animal's home they get to collect a picture of the animal. Children work together trying to collect a picture of each of the animals and put them in the photo album before darkness. If you roll a number one darkness begins to fall and you must cover up one section of the board. Rolling a six means that you can uncover one section.
Peaceful Literacy Bag
Literacy Bags are fun ways to bring learning home. Learn more about Take Home Literacy Bags where you will find another literacy bag suggestion about peace.
Responsive Classroom on eBay
Pete Seeger's message inplemented throughout the day.
The Responsive Classroom approach to classroom discipline teaches peaceful, cooperative way to live together in and out of the classroom.
Pete Seeger on Sesame Street
Pete Seeger's part comes in just over half way through.
Pete Seeger singing on Sesame Street
Put Down the Duckie with Pete Seeger
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Pete Seeger's part comes in just over half way through.
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Pete Seeger Sings about Saving the Earth
Pete Seeger & Bruce Springsteen HQ "This Land is Your Land"
"We Are One" Obama Inaugural
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Be a part of the Crowd singing "This Land is Your Land"
at Barack Obama's Inaugural Concert at the Lincoln Memorial.
Be a part of the Crowd as you sing along with Pete?
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Pete Seeger in the News!
Pete Seeger is receiving another award...
Freemuse Award 2009 to singer Pete Seeger
/www.squidoo.com/magic-the-gathering/">2008 Lifetime Achievement Award - Pete Seeger
- Stookey of Peter, Paul and Mary fame comes to town
- Back when folk purists were turning their noses up at The Kingston Trio, Peter, Paul and Mary ? and folk-rock after that ? then-blacklisted ex-Weavers singer Pete Seeger wrote that a woman approached him and thanked him for ?never selling out.
Happy Birthday, Pete!
Pete Seeger will turn 93 this year. What a life he has lead! Pete Seeger has sung for peace and justice all his life. What will you do to promote peace this year?
Countdown to Pete Seeger's Birthday
Pete Seeger's Birthday: May 3, 2012
Pete Seeger hopes to Help Haiti
Pete Seeger sells his Banjo Head
Photo Credit: Pete Seeger @ Newport Folk Festival 2009
on Flickr, Creative Commons.
Pete Seeger still finds tremendous ways to help people all over the world. He looks for places where people are poor and hungry and finds ways to help. Now the sale of his banjo head on Ebay will help the people of Haiti rebuild their nation. Pete Seeger deserves a Noble Peace Prize.
- Part of Seeger's banjo up for sale | recordonline.com
- Folk icon Pete Seeger's banjo head, ringed by the words;"This Machine Surrounds Hate and Forces It to Surrender"; has been vibrating under plucked strings for 30 years. It has been around the globe and in every state of the union.
...
Proceeds will go to 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai, whose tree-planting work in western Kenya reforested clear-cut mountains. Seeger hopes Maathai will teach the women of Haiti her methods of land restoration.
Sing Out For Pete Seeger!
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jtrandall
Jan 17, 2012 @ 9:51 am | delete
- Pete Seeger has always had a spot in my heart. He is truely an American icon.
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traveller27
Jan 15, 2012 @ 10:52 am | delete
- I saw Pete Seeger perform in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada over thirty years ago. Great lens - blessed by a travelling angel.
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Pastiche
Dec 26, 2011 @ 7:40 pm | delete
- Pete was blacklisted but has just kept on teaching peace and influencing generations through music and actions.
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cmadden
Nov 26, 2011 @ 6:46 pm | delete
- Nice lens about an amazing person. I am wondering why the petition link ends up at a page promoting the gold standard?
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BillBarbin Sep 30, 2011 @ 7:11 pm | delete
- What a nice lens. Pete Seeger helped change the world and continues through spirit like this!
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Sep 25, 2011 @ 8:04 pm | delete
- Wow, you've done your homework. Fantastic lens about a fantastic person! Pete Seeger is great.
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Leopold-Blatt
Aug 20, 2011 @ 5:51 pm | delete
- A lovely informative lens on a beautiful signer. Much enjoyed, thank you.
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fluffyclouds
Mar 21, 2011 @ 12:53 pm | delete
- Great lens! Pete Seeger is simply amazing...
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Rafick Mar 1, 2011 @ 10:50 am | delete
- Nice lens. Lensrolled with Music for World Peace.
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faithfuljim
Jan 24, 2011 @ 12:28 pm | delete
- Even though I like Burl Ives' voice better (personal preference), I must say you've done a bang up job with this lense. I'm lensrolling it to and featuring it on my brand new lense: The Almanac Singers and also to my old lense: American Folk Music, Past, Present and Future.
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annmackiemiller
Nov 24, 2010 @ 8:39 am | delete
- as a boomer I'm surprised some people havn't heard about him - personally I'd give him a peace prize all to himself - great lens x
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Irenemaria
Nov 24, 2010 @ 7:09 am | delete
- I really like many of his songs. But from there to say that he can bring world peace - the step is too long!
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jbraithwaite3
Oct 26, 2010 @ 4:39 am | delete
- I never heard about Pete Seeger. When I am reading your lens thoroughly, I notice that he has a contribution on the music industry. I hope you can post some songs of him. Looking forward of my request.
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louiswery
Sep 15, 2010 @ 8:49 am | delete
- I grew up on Pete Seeger music yet learned so much more by perusing this lens. I especially appreciated the suggestions for ways that we can take action.
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Jodi_k Sep 14, 2010 @ 4:17 pm | delete
- I love Pete Seeger! Watching him at the inauguration, I thought he'd burst from happiness.
You're right, he should win the Nobel Prize.
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