Det danske Fredsakademi
Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 16 Oktober 2006 / Time Line March 16, 2006
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03/16/2006
PRESS RELEASE: 16 March 2006 (Peggy Seeger)
By Christian Bartolf
Peggy Seeger signed the international ""Manifesto against
conscription and the military system" on 4 March 2006 - only
yesterday we received her airmail letter with deep gratitude!
Together with her late husband Ewan MacColl, her brother
Mike Seeger and her half-brother Pete Seeger, Peggy
Seeger was instrumental in reviving the Anglo-American folk song
tradition, in the footsteps of her parents: the pioneer of
ethnomusicology, Charles Louis Seeger, and his wife Ruth
Crawford Seeger, the first woman to be awarded the Guggenheim
Fellowship Award for Music. Peggy Seeger composed and performed
traditional Anglo-American songs and ballads as well as
contemporary songs about gender issues, nature, ecology, e.g. songs
against the lethal danger of radioactivity and nuclear reactors
("Sellafield Child", "Plutonium Factor", "Wasteland Lullabye"),
e.g. the anthem of the British women civil disobedience campaign
against nuclear weapons and the plutonium industry ("Carry Greenham
Home"), e.g. songs on women's and workers' rights ("I'm Gonna
Be An Engineer", "The Ballad of Springhill") - you find her website
information under: http://www.pegseeger.com - She has been an
outspoken advocate of Peace, Ecology, Justice and Solidarity
throughout her creative life as song poet (since 1959), performing
artist and social activist through her songs and ballads in favour
of the emancipation of the poor and the oppressed.
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