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Folk singer, activist Pete Seeger dies in U.S.
NEW YORK （AP） — Pete Seeger, the banjo-picking troubadour who sang for migrant workers, college students and star-struck presidents in a career that introduced generations of Americans to their folk music heritage, died Monday at the age of 94.
Seeger’s grandson, Kitama Cahill-Jackson said his grandfather died peacefully in his sleep around 9:30 p.m. at New York Presbyterian Hospital, where he had been for six days. Family members were with him.
“He was chopping wood 10 days ago,” Cahill-Jackson recalled.
Seeger — with his a lanky frame, banjo and full white beard — was an iconic figure in folk music. He performed with the great minstrel Woody Guthrie in his younger days and marched with Occupy Wall Street protesters in his 90s, leaning on two canes. He wrote or co-wrote “If I Had a Hammer,” ”Turn, Turn, Turn,” ”Where Have All the Flowers Gone” and “Kisses Sweeter Than Wine.” He lent his voice against Hitler and nuclear power. A cheerful warrior, he typically delivered his broadsides with an affable air and his banjo strapped on.
“Be wary of great leaders,” he told The Associated Press two days after a 2011 Manhattan Occupy march. “Hope that there are many, many small leaders.”
With The Weavers, a quartet organized in 1948, Seeger helped set the stage for a national folk revival. The group — Seeger, Lee Hays, Ronnie Gilbert and Fred Hellerman — churned out hit recordings of “Goodnight Irene,” ”Tzena, Tzena” and “On Top of Old Smokey.”
Seeger also was credited with popularizing “We Shall Overcome,” which he printed in his publication “People’s Song,” in 1948. He later said his only contribution to the anthem of the civil rights movement was changing the second word from “will” to “shall,” which he said “opens up the mouth better.”
“Every kid who ever sat around a campfire singing an old song is indebted in some way to Pete Seeger,” Arlo Guthrie once said.
His musical career was always braided tightly with his political activism, in which he advocated for causes ranging from civil rights to the cleanup of his beloved Hudson River. Seeger said he left the Communist Party around 1950 and later renounced it. But the association dogged him for years.
He was kept off commercial television for more than a decade after tangling with the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1955. Repeatedly pressed by the committee to reveal whether he had sung for Communists, Seeger responded sharply: “I love my country very dearly, and I greatly resent this implication that some of the places that I have sung and some of the people that I have known, and some of my opinions, whether they are religious or philosophical, or I might be a vegetarian, make me any less of an American.”
He was charged with contempt of Congress, but the sentence was overturned on appeal.
Seeger called the 1950s, years when he was denied broadcast exposure, the high point of his career. He was on the road touring college campuses, spreading the music he, Guthrie, Huddie “Leadbelly” Ledbetter and others had created or preserved.
“The most important job I did was go from college to college to college to college, one after the other, usually small ones,” he told The Associated Press in 2006. ” … And I showed the kids there’s a lot of great music in this country they never played on the radio.”
His scheduled return to commercial network television on the highly rated Smothers Brothers variety show in 1967 was hailed as a nail in the coffin of the blacklist. But CBS cut out his Vietnam protest song, “Waist Deep in the Big Muddy,” and Seeger accused the network of censorship.
He finally got to sing it five months later in a stirring return appearance, although one station, in Detroit, cut the song’s last stanza: “Now every time I read the papers/That old feelin’ comes on/We’re waist deep in the Big Muddy/And the big fool says to push on.”
Seeger’s output included dozens of albums and single records for adults and children.
He also was the author or co-author of “American Favorite Ballads,” ”The Bells of Rhymney,” ”How to Play the Five-String Banjo,” ”Henscratches and Flyspecks,” ”The Incompleat Folksinger,” ”The Foolish Frog” and “Abiyoyo,” ”Carry It On,” ”Everybody Says Freedom” and “Where Have All the Flowers Gone.”
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28 January 2014 Last updated at 09:00
Pete Seeger: US folk singer and activist dies aged 94
US folk singer and activist Pete Seeger, whose songs included Turn! Turn! Turn! and If I Had A Hammer, has died at the age of 94.
He died at a New York hospital after a short illness, his grandson said.
Seeger gained fame in The Weavers, formed in 1948, and continued to perform in his own right in a career spanning six decades.
Renowned for his protest songs, Seeger was blacklisted by the US Government in the 1950s for his leftist stance.
Denied broadcast exposure, Seeger toured US college campuses spreading his music and ethos, later calling this the “most important job of my career”.
He was quizzed by the Un-American Activities Committee in 1955 over whether he had sung for Communists, replying that he “greatly resented” the implication that his work made him any less American.
Seeger was charged with contempt of Congress, but the sentence was overturned on appeal.
He returned to TV in the late 1960s but had a protest song about the Vietnam War cut from broadcast.
The lofty, bearded banjo-playing musician became a standard bearer for political causes from nuclear disarmament to the Occupy Wall Street movement in 2011.
In 2009, he was at a gala concert in the US capital ahead of Barack Obama’s inauguration as president.
His predecessor Bill Clinton hailed him as “an inconvenient artist who dared to sing things as he saw them.”
Other songs that he co-wrote included Where Have All The Flowers Gone, while he was credited with making We Shall Overcome an anthem of resistance.
Turn! Turn! Turn! was made into a number one hit by The Byrds in 1965, and covered by a multitude of other artists including Dolly Parton and Chris de Burgh.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-25923852

　米国のフォーク歌手で、反戦などの社会運動でも知られたピート・シーガーさんが２７日、ニューヨーク市の病院で死去した。９４歳だった。ＡＰ通信が伝えた家族の話によると、数日前から入院していたという。
　１９４０年代から活動を始め、「天使のハンマー」「ターン・ターン・ターン」などを作曲。代表曲「花はどこへ行った」は、ベトナム戦争に抗議するフォークソング。賛美歌だった「ウィ・シャル・オーバーカム（勝利を我らに）」を、６０年代の公民権運動を象徴する歌として広めた。ボブ・ディランやジョーン・バエズ、ピーター・ポール＆マリー、ブルース・スプリングスティーンらに影響を与えた。
　政治的活動も活発で、共産党に在籍したことがきっかけで、５０年代半ばから約１０年間、米国のラジオやテレビから消えた。その後も公民権運動や反戦運動のほか、ハドソン川の浄化などの環境問題にも取り組んだ。
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５０年代フォークソング・リバイバルのキーパーソンとして世界的に影響を与えた人だった。同時に反戦・平和主義＝左翼との誤れるイメージを振りまいた張本人でもあった。

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1. 腰まで泥まみれ～Waist Deep In The Big Muddy～（作詞／作曲：Pete Seeger　日本語詞：中川五郎）
2. スラバヤ通りの妹へ（作詞／作曲：松任谷由実）
3. 美しき五月のパリ（作者：不詳　日本語詞：加藤登紀子）
4. ユエの流れ（作詞：桐雄二郎　作曲：須摩洋朔）
5. リリー・マルレーン（作詞：Hans Leip　作曲：Norbert Schultze　訳詞：片桐和子）
6. 最后のダンスステップ（作詞／作曲：あがた森魚）
7. 戦争は知らない（作詞：寺山修司　作曲：加藤宏史）
8. 死んだ男の残したものは（作詞：谷川俊太郎　作曲：武満徹）
9. ケ・サラ（作詞：Francesco Migliacci 作曲：Jimmy Fontana / Italo Nicola Greco / Carlo Pes / Enrico Sbriccoli　訳詞：岩谷時子）
10. 永遠の調べ（日本語詞：HUSSY_R　作曲：Lady john Douglas Scott ）
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11. 死んだ女の子（作詞：ナジム・ヒクメット　作曲：外山雄三　日本語訳：中本信幸　　編曲：坂本龍一）
12. さとうきび畑　（作詞／作曲：寺島尚彦）