David dunaway pete seeger biography
David King Dunaway has done a wonderful job in updating his classic biography of Pete Seeger....
Author of ten volumes of history and biography, his specialty is the presentation of folklore, literature, and history via broadcasting.
David King Dunaway
American historian
David King Dunaway is an American historian. He is a professor of English at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico; he was previously on the faculty of San Francisco State University in San Francisco.[1] He was also the first consultant to the UNESCO Program on Intangible Cultural Heritage.
Books
David Dunaway's first book, How Can I Keep From Singing, the first biography of folk musician and social activist Pete Seeger, was based on his doctoral dissertation at the University of California, Berkeley, and first released in 1981.
Since then, it has been translated into Japanese and Spanish and been through six printings. Working with Seeger, Dunaway completed a revised, updated version of the biography in 2008 from Villard Books/Random House.
In addition, Dunaway is also the editor of Oral History: An Interdisciplinary Anthology (with Willa Baum; second edition, Rowman & Littlefield, 1996), and the
