Pete Seeger: The Power of Song

• Pete Seeger
• Bob Dylan
• Joan Baez
• Bruce Springsteen
• Johnny Cash
• Arlo Guthrie
• Mary Travers
• Natalie Maines
• Bill Clinton

Pete Seeger: The Power of a Song is published in 2007 documentary about the folk musician and political activist Pete Seeger ( 1919-2014 ). Production and direction was in the hands of Jim Brown, who had already led in 1982 with the documentary Was not That a Time about the music group The Weavers, whose member Pete Seeger has been directing.

Content

The film traces Pete Seeger's life after, starting with his parents and his childhood in the 1920s until the first decade of the 21st century, when Seeger was between 80 and 90 years old. In addition to his own numerous family members to speak as well as among other musicians Arlo Guthrie, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Tom Paxton, Mary Travers, Natalie Maines, Johnny Cash and the then U.S. President Bill Clinton, who him in 1994 with the coming National Medal of Arts distinguished.

Reviews

" All his life, his music dealt with the same ideas and the belief that music can improve ourselves. If he is not even, then the people will wonder whether such a man ever really existed. Thankfully, we now have to show "Power of Song" it to them. "

" " Pete Seeger: The Power of Song " uses the usual methods of documentary films - old film footage and new interviews with old companions like Ronnie Gilbert and Lee Hays and today's admirers like Bruce Springsteen and Natalie Maines, all accompanied by much music, so a lovable, detailed portrait to deliver his subject. "