He became a cultural hero through his outspoken commitment to the antiwar and civil rights struggles in the 1960s, and for environmental and antiwar causes in the 1970s and beyond. “As a singer, folk-song collector, and songwriter, GRAMMY winner Pete Seeger spent a long career championing folk music as both a vital heritage and a catalyst for social change and remains an influential presence in the American folk music scene, even after his passing on January 27, 2014. Take, for example, this promo description of Pete’s truncated legacy by the Kennedy Center/Grammy Museum publicity department: Pete Seeger and the Power of Song: Tribute to a Folk Legend The artist who was blacklisted for seventeen years is in the process of being both canonized and sanitized since passing away January 27 in 2014 at the age of 94. PETE SEEGER AND THE POWER OF SONG: TRIBUTE TO A FOLK LEGENDĪmerica’s Tuning Fork, folk singer Pete Seeger, was a cultural pariah long before he was a cultural hero-but you would never know it from the most recent major tribute being planned-at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.
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