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March 15-16, 2007, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

SELECTED RESOURCES

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Anthony Seeger

• "Anthony Seeger," University of California at Los Angeles, Department of Ethnomusicology website.

• Smithsonian Folkways Recordings (http://www.folkways.si.edu/index.html)

Charles Seeger

• Greer, Taylor Aitken. A Question of Balance: Charles Seeger's Philosophy of Music. University of California Press. 1998.
• Pescatello, Ann. Charles Seeger: A Life in American Music. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press. 1992.
• Yung, Bell and Helen Rees. Understanding Charles Seeger, Pioneer in American Musicology. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. 1999.

• American Musicological Society. Records, 1934-1992. Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania. PU-Sp Ms. Coll. 22. (View the collections guide.)
• Berkeley Folk Artist Archives, Special Collections Department, Northwestern University Library.
  
• Charles Seeger musical compositions and published research articles, ARCHIVES SEEGER 1, The Music Library, University of California, Berkeley. (View the collections guide.)
• Charles Seeger Oral History. Online Archive of California. University of California at Los Angeles. (View the collections guide.)
• Oral History, American Music. Yale School of Music and Library (http://www.yale.edu/oham/ )
• Seeger Family Materials at the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
• Seeger Family Materials in the Music Division, Library of Congress

Mike Seeger

• Gura, Philip F. "Roots & Branches: Forty Years of the New Lost City Ramblers," Old-Time Herald vol. 7, no. 2 (November 1999-January 2000):26-33 and vol. 7, no. 3 (February-April 2000):20-24.
• Spottswood, Dick. "Mike Seeger," Bluegrass Unlimited 19, no. 11 (May 1985):59-64.
• Williams, Toni. "Talking Feet-Mike Seeger," Bluegrass Unlimited 26, no. 8 (February 1992):41-45.

• New Lost City Ramblers Discography by Stefan Wirz (http://www.wirz.de/music/nlcrfrm.htm)
• Official Website (http://mikeseeger.info/ )

• Mike Seeger Collection (#20009) 1955-2002. Southern Folklife Collection. Manuscripts Department, Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/s/Seeger,Mike.html)
• Seeger Family Materials at the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

Peggy Seeger

• Peggy Seeger's Web site.
  
• Parsley, Sage and Politics. A nine-part radio series on the lives and art of Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger. Go to the ordering information.

• A complete list of recordings and ordering information is available at the Peggy Seeger web site.
  
• Real People's Music (Peggy Seeger)

• Ewan MacColl-Peggy Seeger Archive at Ruskin College, Headington, Oxford, England
• MacColl and Seeger Collection. Goldsmiths University of London Library
• Seeger Family Materials at the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
• Seeger Family Materials in the Music Division, Library of Congress

Pete Seeger

• Dunaway, David King. How Can I Keep from Singing: Pete Seeger. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company. 1981.
  
• Seeger, Pete. The Incompleat Folksinger. Edited by Jo Metcalf Schwartz. New York: Simon and Schuster. 1972.
• Seeger, Pete. Where Have All the Flowers Gone: A Singer's Stories, Songs, Seeds, Robberies. Edited by Peter Blood. Bethlehem, PA: Sing Out Corporation. 1993.

• Dunaway, David King. "Force and Violins: What the FBI had on Folksingers," Benjamin Botkin Lecture Series, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, March 19, 2008. Running time 50:11.

• Capaldi, Jim. "Pete Seeger Appreciation Page."
• Smithsonian Folkways Recordings Web site. Search for "Pete Seeger."

• Miscellaneous speeches, lectures and labor music. 6041tr. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Martin P. Catherwood Library, Cornell University.
• Oral History of the American Left. Oral histories, 1976-1984. New York University Libraries (CStRLIN)NYUG85A99.

• Seeger Family Materials at the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
  
• Seeger Family Materials in the Music Division, Library of Congress

Ruth Crawford Seeger

• Allen, Ray and Ellie M. Hisama, eds.. Ruth Crawford Seeger's Worlds: Innovation and Tradition in Twentieth-century American Music. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press. 2007.
• Gaume, Matilda. Ruth Crawford Seeger: Memoirs, Memories, Music. Metuchen, NJ: The Scarecrow Press. 1986.
• Straus, Joseph N. The Music of Ruth Crawford Seeger. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1995.
• Tick, Judith. Ruth Crawford Seeger: A Composer's Search for American Music. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.

• Judith Tick, "Ruth Crawford Seeger, Modernist Composer in the Folk Revival: Biography as Music History", sponsored by Music Division, Library of Congress March 26, 2008. Select the link to see the webcast of this lecture.

• Discography and other information about Ruth Crawford Seeger is available via the Peggy Seeger web site.

• Seeger Family Materials at the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
  
• Seeger Family Materials in the Music Division, Library of Congress