Hardly. With Bruce Springsteen's extensive, impressive tribute to Pete Seeger due out next week, suddenly the spotlight, not to mention the raised eyebrows of more than a few conservatives, has turned again on the work of this master topical songwriter.
Sure, Pete Seeger was blacklisted in the 1950s, resulting in the break-up of his highly influential group The Weavers. Sure, he followed that with decades of activism and songs protesting the government's involvement in Vietnam and the struggle for civil rights.
He's since stayed home in New York State, organizing efforts to clean up the Hudson River, and continuing to protest the Bush administration's policies on the environment and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. But as blogger, extraordinaire, Edward J. Renehan argues, questioning Seeger's patriotism is absurd.
(image © Sony)
Comments