Peter Paul and Mary: Fifty Years in Music and Life

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Synopsis
This carefully crafted and collectible volume tells the intimate story of Peter, Paul, and Mary and their music, in their words and with iconic images that follow their passionate, fifty-year journey to the center of America&’s heart. Photographs, many rare and never before published, taken over five decades by some of the world&’s top photographers, follow them from their earliest performances in the 1960s, when Mary was the most desired, beautiful, and charismatic performer and a new role model for women. Follow the trio as they lead America to discover the passionate soul of folk music. Join the struggle for racial equality, social justice, and freedom in this memorable journey, from the historic 1963 March on Washington with Martin Luther King, Jr., to the trio&’s appearance before a half million people in 1969 to end the Vietnam War, to their singing at the Hollywood Bowl for Survival Sunday in 1978, helping to launch the anti-nuke movement, the world&’s first international environmental movement. Through these images, readers will feel and almost hear the trio&’s songs calling for a more caring, better world as they performed with a courage and conviction that became for so many the embodiment and soundtrack of their generation&’s awakening to conscience, to activism, and to a new dream for all of humankind. Peter, Paul, and Mary&’s songs of defiant hope and a certain unmasked innocence are still a powerful part of our American consciousness, and this book reenacts the history of how the trio marked many lives with their indelible stamp of honesty of the sort we all yearn to recapture and recreate today—for ourselves, our children, and the generations to come.
Copyright:
2015

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:
9781607348016
Related ISBNs:
9781936140329
Publisher:
Charlesbridge
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Peter, Paul and Mary
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Entertainment, Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Education, Music
Submitted By:
Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.
Foreword by:
John Kerry

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