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American Icons: This Land is Your Land

This is the national anthem we actually know the words to. Americans sing it at school and summer camp; Bruce Springsteen sang it at President Obama’s inauguration. Yet Woody Guthrie’s song was once branded anti-American, even Communist. Pete Seeger tells Kurt Andersen how Guthrie wrote it as a sarcastic response to “God Bless America,” and […]

An Afternoon with Pete Seeger

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American folk singer Pete Seeger is being honored in Sweden today as part of Music Freedom Day. Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with Seeger’s grandson, Tao Rodriquez-Seeger, a musician in his own right.

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