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Peter, Paul, and Mary : fifty years in music and life

Title
Peter, Paul, and Mary : fifty years in music and life / by Peter Yarrow, Noel Paul Stookey & Mary Travers ; [foreword by John F. Kerry, US Secretary of State].
Author
Yarrow, Peter, 1938-
Publication
  • Watertown : Imagine, 2015.
  • ©2015

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Additional Authors
  • Kerry, John, 1943-
  • Stookey, Paul, 1937-
  • Travers, Mary, 1936-2009
Description
144 pages : illustrations (some colour), portraits (some colour); 28 x 30 cm
Summary
"Finally. here is the first and only book that visually tells us the intimate story of Peter, Paul, and Mary and their music, with stirring images that follow their passionate, fifty-year journey to the center of America's heart. The very best of thousands of 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, you can feel and almost hear the trio's songs calling for a more caring, better world as you see them performing with a courage and conviction that became for so many the embodiment and sound track 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 our lives with their indelible stamp of honesty of the sort we yearn to recapture and recreate in our own time--for ourselves, our children, and the generations to come"-
Subject
  • Travers, Mary, 1936-2009
  • Yarrow, Peter, 1938-
  • Stookey, Paul, 1937-
  • Peter, Paul, and Mary (Musical group)
  • Folk singers > United States > Biography
  • MUSIC > Genres & Styles > Folk & Traditional
  • MUSIC > Instruction & Study > Appreciation
  • MUSIC > Reference
  • Folk singers
  • United States
Genre/Form
  • Biographies.
  • Biography.
Contents
Fifty years in music and life -- Peter Yarrow -- Noel Paul Stookey -- Mary Travers.
Call Number
JNF 15-6
ISBN
  • 9781936140329
  • 1936140322
LCCN
2014014187
OCLC
897488378
Author
Yarrow, Peter, 1938- author.
Title
Peter, Paul, and Mary : fifty years in music and life / by Peter Yarrow, Noel Paul Stookey & Mary Travers ; [foreword by John F. Kerry, US Secretary of State].
Publisher
Watertown : Imagine, 2015.
Copyright Date
©2015
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Added Author
Kerry, John, 1943- writer of supplementary textual content.
Stookey, Paul, 1937- author.
Travers, Mary, 1936-2009, author.
Research Call Number
JNF 15-6
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