The Pete Seeger reader / edited by Ronald D. Cohen and James Capaldi.

Includes bibliographical references ( pages 249-250) and index.

Introduction ; A. Background ; 1. Gene Marine, "Guerrilla Minstrel" (1972) ; 2. "Pete Seeger: 2002" (2005) ; B. The Early Years ; 3. Lawrence Emery, "Interesting Summer" (1939); Pete Seeger, "Pete And His Banjo Meet Some Fine Mountain Folks," (1940) ; 4. Pete Seeger, "Banjo Picker in Kentucky" and "Back Where I Come From" (1941) ; 5. George Lewis, "America is in Their Songs: Pete Bowers and Al [sic] Hays collect U.S. Folk Ballads" (1941) ; 6. The Almanac Singers [Pete Seeger] to Son House (1942); E.A., "The 'Almanacs' Part, But Keep on Singing" (1943) ; 7. Pete Seeger, "Report From The Marianas" (1945) ; 8. Woody Guthrie, "People's Songs and Its People" (1990) ; 9. Pete Seeger, "People's Songs Workshop" (1946); Pete Seeger, "People's Songs and Singers" (1946); "Report to members" (1946); Pete Seeger, "Report to members" (1946) ; 10. Pete Seeger, Letter to People's Songs supporters (1948); Pete Seeger, Letter to People's Songs supporters (1948); Pete Seeger, Minutes of the "Meeting of National Board of Directors of People's Songs" (1948) ; C. The 1950s ; 11. Robert W. Dana, "Village Vanguard Has Real Hoe-Down" (1950); Jay Russell, "How the Weavers Break Night Club Ice" (1950); "Out of the Corner" (1950); "Weavers' Yarn" (1951);Frederick Woltman, "Melody Weaves On, Along Party Line," (1951) ; 12. Alan Lomax notes Darling Corey (1950);

Pete Seeger to Ray M. Lawless (1953) ; 13. Irwin Silber, "Pete Seeger" (1954) ; 14. Monty Mons, "Pete Seeger: An Appreciation" (1955); Summary of government charges, 1955-1957 (1957) ; 15. Pete Seeger, "A letter of greetings to the editors and readers of Sing Along" (1957) ; 16. "Blind Raferty" (aka Dave Van Ronk) (1957); Emerson L. Batdorff, "It's Not Nose in Folk Song, Artist Proves," (1958) ; 17. Ronald Radosh, Commies (2001) ; D. The 1960s ; 18. Moses Asch, "Foreword" (1961) ; 19. "Statement In Court By Pete Seeger Before Judge Thomas F. Murphy, Federal Court, New York" (1961); David Marcus, "Seeger Cites Battle Of Politics, Arts," (1961) ; 20. Eric Winter, "Pete Seeger sails in to a hero's welcome" (1961); Pete Seeger, "When you're singing just be yourself" (1961) ; 21. Alan Hjerpe, "Pete Seeger In L.A. Concert" (1962) ; 22. Pete Seeger, "The Country Washboard Band" (1963); Pete Seeger, "Introduction: Woody Guthrie Folk Songs" (1963); Pete Seeger, "Introduction: The Bells of Rhymney" (1964) ; 23. Pete Seeger letter to Sis Cunningham and Gordon Friesen (1963); Pete Seeger, "What's In A Word?" (1964); "Pete Seeger Arrives In Prague To Begin Concert Tour In Eastern Europe" (1964); Ruth Daniloff, "Pete Seeger In Moscow" (1964) ; 24. Jon Pankake, "Pete's Children: The American Folksong Revival, Pro and Con" (1964) ; 25. [Pete Seeger], "Pete Seeger" (1965); Ralph J. Gleason, "A Folk Singer Who Meets You Half-Way," (1965) ; 26. Paul Cowan, "Non-Confrontation In Beacon, New York," (1965) ; 27. "Big and Muddy" (1967) ; 28. Pete Seeger, "To Save a River," Guideposts (1970) ; E. The 1970s and After ; 29. Tom Smucker, "If Every Concert Were A Benefit, Pete Seeger Would Be Frank Sinatra" (1976); Joe Klein, "Pete Seeger's steelyard benefit," (1977) ; 30. Marc Fisher, "America's Best-Loved Commie" (1994) ; 31. Scott Alarik, "No more awards! Pete Seeger" (1996) ; 32. Greg Kot, "The Boss pulls off celebrating Seeger" (2006) ; 33. Dick Flacks, "Pete Seeger's Project," (2009) ; AFTERWORD ; Bibliography