Word: incompleat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...similar sort of unobtrusive excellence permeates The Incompleat Folksinger. Most of the book is reprinted, largely from Sing Out magazine, and because it's anthological, it's discursive, repetitious and fun to browse in. It juxtaposes history ("The singingest union America ever had was the old Wobblies..."), memoirs of earlier singers from Joe Hill to Woody Guthrie (with whom Seeger traveled for awhile shortly after he dropped out of Harvard), accounts of the origins of various instruments and of Seeger's travels abroad, an unfortunately cursory version of his confrontation with the House Un-American Activities Committee (the full transcript...
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