His great-grandfather was an abolitionist. His great-great grandfather came to America seeking self-determination after reading the Declaration of Independence. You could say Seeger inherited his activism. He was murdering people and was ready to go to war.” “… But this was 1937 and Hitler had taken power. The only thing you can do is study it,'” Seeger said. “The sociology professor said, ‘Don’t think that you can change the world. Other than the canes and snowy beard, Seeger hasn’t changed much since he began singing out against fascism in the mid-1930s after dropping out of Harvard in frustration. “Hope that there are many, many small leaders.”

“Be wary of great leaders,” he said Sunday in a phone interview full of songs and stories when asked what he identifies with in the Occupy Wall Street message. He found himself attracted to the studied inorganization of the Wall Street protesters. Seeger still takes delight in lending his presence to important things, even if his voice doesn’t carry like it used to. In middle age, he was a key figure in the folk revival that produced Dylan and, later, the protests that helped shape modern America. Joseph McCarthy and endured a blacklisting he simply shrugged away. He met Woody Guthrie, Alan Lomax and Lead Belly, and began to advocate for migrant workers and miners in the 1940s. Seeger’s voice first rose in the 1930s against Hitler. But his presence, in a crowd of nearly 1,000 with guitar players and chanting sign-holders and police swirling around, gave the new protest movement something it seemed to lack over the last month.Ī momentary clarity, longtime friend Guy Davis thinks. This time around, Seeger was carried along by two canes, not the sound of his banjo. King Charles’ coronation is hours away.Head of anti-monarchy group arrested during King Charles’ coronation.What do you give a vinyl fan who has everything? Maybe one of these ultra-weird LPs.IN PHOTOS: The scene-stealing jewels, yawns and opulence of the coronation.

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