Sing Out! Pete Seeger and American Reform
Social Sciences Forum Presents: Allan Winkler
Wednesday, May 4 at 4pm
Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery
Allan M. Winkler, Distinguished Professor of History, Miami University in Ohio
Low Lecture
Co-sponsored by the Department of History
In "To Everything There Is a Season": Pete Seeger and the Power of Song (Oxford, 2009), Allan Winkler describes how Seeger applied his musical talents to improve conditions for less fortunate people everywhere and the important role folk music played in various protest movements of the twentieth century, including workers' rights, civil rights, and the environmental movement.