BOOKS WRITTEN BY PETE SEEGER, ALONE OR WITH OTHERS
Abiyoyo. New
York: Macmillan, 1985.
American Favorite Ballads, Tunes And Folksongs As Sung By Pete Seeger.
New York: Oak, 1961.
Bantu Choral Folk Songs. New York: G. Schirmer, 1959.
The Bells Of Rhymney And Other Songs And Stories. New York:
Oak, 1964.
Bits And Pieces. New York: Ludlow Music, 1965.
The Carolers Songbook (with the Weavers). New York: Folkways,
1952.
Carry It On: The Story Of America's Working People In Story And Song.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1985; Bethlehem, PA: Sing Out Publications,
1991.
Everybody Says Freedom. New York: W. W. Norton, 1991.
The Folksinger's Guitar Guide. New York: Oak, 1967.
The Foolish Frog (with Charles Louis Seeger). New York:
Macmillan, 1973.
The Goofing Off Suite. New York: Hargail, 1961.
Hard Hitting Songs For Hard Hit People (with Woody Guthrie and Alan
Lomax). New York: Oak, 1967; Lincoln: University of Nebraska
Press, 1999.
Henscratches and Flyspecks: How To Read Melodies From Songbooks In
Twelve Confusing Lessons. New York: Berkeley Books, 1973.
How To Make And Play A Chalil. Self-published, 1955.
How To Play The Five-String Banjo. Self-published, 1948; New
York: Oak, 1962.
The Incompleat Folksinger (edited by Jo Metcalf Schwartz).
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1972.
Oh Had I A Golden Thread. New York: Sanga Music, 1968.
Pete Seeger On Record. New York: Ludlow Music, 1971.
Pete Seeger Sings Songs Of The American People. Moscow: State
Publishers Music, 1965.
Songs For Peace (edited with Jeff Harris and Cliff Metzler).
New York: Oak, 1966.
The Steel Drums Of Kim Loy Wong. New York: Oak, 1961.
Traveling On With The Weavers (with the Weavers). New York:
Harper, 1966.
The Twelve String Guitar As Played By Leadbelly (with Julius Lester).
New York: Oak, 1965.
The Weavers Sing (with the Weavers). New York: Folkways,
1951.
Weavers Songbook (with the Weavers). New York: Harper, 1960.
Where Have All the Flowers Gone. Sing Out Publications, 1993.
(This is absolutely THE definitive book by and about Pete Seeger for those
who admire him and love his music. It is available from: Sing Out
Publications, P. O. Box 5253, Bethlehem PA 18015-0253 or by calling
1-800-4-WE-SING.)
Pete Seeger's Storytelling Book (with Paul DuBois Jacobs). New York:
Harcourt, 2000.
Pete Seeger's Abiyoyo Returns (with Paul Dubois Jacobs). New
York: Simon and Schuster, 2001.
I Had A Rooster (Laura Vaccaro Seeger). New York, Viking,
2001.
One Grain of Sand: A Lullaby. New York, Little, Brown and
Company, 2002.
Turn! Turn! Turn! New York, Simon and Schuster, 2003.
Some Friends To Feed: Stone Soup (with Paul Dubois Jacobs). New
York, Putnam Juvenile, 2005.
The Deaf Musicians (with Paul Dubois Jacobs). New York, G.
P. Putnam's Sons, 2006.
BIOGRAPHY
How Can I Keep From Singing: Pete Seeger, by David King
Dunaway. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1981.
OTHER IMPORTANT BOOKS
Woody Guthrie: A Life, by Joe Klein. New York: Alfred Knopf,
1980.
Lonesome Traveler: The Life of Lee Hays, by Doris Willens.
New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1988.
Paul Robeson: A Biography, by Martin Duberman. New York: Alfred A.
Knopf, Inc., 1988
The Life and Legend of Leadbelly, by Charles Wolfe and Kip
Lornell. New York: Harper Collins, 1992.
When We Were Good: The Folk Revival, by Robert Cantwell.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996.
Making People's Music: Moe Asch and Folkways Records, by Peter D.
Goldsmith. Washington, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998.
Last Cavalier: The Life and Times of John A. Lomax, by Nolan
Porterfield. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998.
Hard-Hitting Songs For Hard Hit People, complied by Alan Lomax,
notes by Woody Guthrie, music transcribed and edited by Pete Seeger.
Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, 1999. [Reprint of 1967 Oak
Publications edition]
Red Dust and Broadsides: Agnes "Sis" Cunningham and Gordon
Friesen, edited by Ronald D. Cohen. Amherst: University of Massachusetts
Press, 1999.
Rainbow Quest: The Folk Music Revival and American Society, 1940-1970, by
Ron Cohen. Amherst, University of Massachusetts Press, 2002.
Sing Out, Warning! Sing Out, Love!: The Writings of Lee Hays, edited by
Robert Koppelman. Amherst, University of Massachusetts Press, 2003.
Ramblin' Man, The Life and Times of Woody Guthrie, by Ed Cray.
New York, W. W. Norton and Company, 2004.