![]() ![]() ![]() His father, Charles, founded the musicology program at the University of California, Berkeley, from which he was fired for his pacifism in 1918. His mother, Constance, was a concert violinist and taught at the Juilliard School of Music in New York. Pete Seeger was born May 3, 1919, into an old New England family of musicians and activists. Like his music, Seeger’s letters demanded engagement, participation-and action. Seeger’s communications were never innocuous: he would tell the editors that something MR had published was wrongheaded (or, sometimes, right-headed) he would take an idea, turn it over, and suggest where to go with it. Harry Magdoff used to say that when a letter arrived from Pete, nearly always handwritten and often pages long, responding to an article or suggesting a topic to be covered or a book to be reviewed, it would go right home with him, to be pondered, considered, answered, and, especially, enjoyed. Pete was a long-time reader of Monthly Review and, occasionally, a writer for this magazine. Our friend and comrade Pete Seeger died a year ago this month, on January 27, 2014. John J Simon is an occasional contributor to MR and is a director of Monthly Review Foundation. She co-edits the book series Class : Culture for the University of Michigan Press. literature and culture for thirty-five years she is the author of scholarly books and articles and the co-editor, most recently, of Dreaming in Public: Building the Occupy Movement. ![]()
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