Pete Seeger, Musical Revolutionary

http://monthlyreview.org/2015/01/01/pete-seeger-musical-revolutionary/
Date Written:  2015-01-01
Publisher:  Monthly Review
Year Published:  2015
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX17264

On Seeger's banjo was printed the motto: "This Machine Surrounds Hate and Forces It to Surrender." With these words, Seeger plainly stated that he intended to use music as a means to facilitate social change. He believed that music held the potential to help people understand their troubles and to take action to change repressive circumstances.