If you ever heard of this song, you ought to know the legendary musician of decades 30-70, Pete Seeger. Pete Seeger, a well known folksinger whose music influenced the movement of the United States in twentieth century, is depicted clearly through “To everything there is a season”, one of the books written by Allan Winkler -- a historian and a professor teaching at Miami University in Ohio. Throughout six chapters, Allan Winkler describes how Pete Seeger applied his talents into his daily life to make unfortunate people around the world feel better. Not only did Seeger’s songs warm people’s heart, connect people together, his music also fired the desire of each and every person living on earth to fight for a nonviolent world, expressing his hopes toward the harmony that there would be no more war.
Chapter one “Talking Union” basically talks about the early beginning of Pete Seeger’s life when he figured out what he wanted to do. Following his dad, Pete soon became an union supporter. After he quitted Harvard due to the statement of his sociology professor that “You can’t change the world. There are certain inevitable things going to happen. The most you can do is analyze the world and hope you can analyze it correctly.” (pg 9), Pete started playing his banjo and performing music in order to support his life. On his road of living an …show more content…
But his career was threatened. At that time, HUAC suspected Pete and six more persons were communists. To Pete, it was one of the darkest moments in his career when his freedom, his career and all the safety were abused. But this was also an inspiration for Pete to compose the immortal protest song, Where Have All The Flowers Gone. 1960 song was officially released and became one of the famous protest song. This song was seen as an anti-war chant, especially since the Vietnam war has brought the American to leave and never
Chapter one “Talking Union” basically talks about the early beginning of Pete Seeger’s life when he figured out what he wanted to do. Following his dad, Pete soon became an union supporter. After he quitted Harvard due to the statement of his sociology professor that “You can’t change the world. There are certain inevitable things going to happen. The most you can do is analyze the world and hope you can analyze it correctly.” (pg 9), Pete started playing his banjo and performing music in order to support his life. On his road of living an …show more content…
But his career was threatened. At that time, HUAC suspected Pete and six more persons were communists. To Pete, it was one of the darkest moments in his career when his freedom, his career and all the safety were abused. But this was also an inspiration for Pete to compose the immortal protest song, Where Have All The Flowers Gone. 1960 song was officially released and became one of the famous protest song. This song was seen as an anti-war chant, especially since the Vietnam war has brought the American to leave and never