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March 15-16, 2007, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

PROGRAM

Please note that panel presentations and the film screening will take place in the Mumford Room, 6th floor, Madison Building (link to floorplan and campus map) and that advance registration is required to attend.

* Indicates that the participant is still to be confirmed

MARCH 15, 2007 -- THURSDAY

8:00-9:00 pm --
THE PETE AND TOSHI SEEGER FILM COLLECTION
Screening of film clips from the documentary film footage collection of world musical traditions recorded by Pete and Toshi Seeger and their children during their travels around the world in the 1960's. The screening will be followed by a discussion period.


PLEASE NOTE THAT THE TIME FOR THE SCREENING IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE

MARCH 16, 2007 -- FRIDAY

9:00-10:00 am --
WELCOME & INTRODUCTION: Library Officials and Peggy Bulger (Director, American Folklife Center)
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Neil Rosenberg (Professor Emeritus, Memorial University of Newfoundland) -- Family Values Seeger Style [read abstract & bio]
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10:00-11:15 am --
CHARLES SEEGER & RUTH CRAWFORD SEEGER
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Moderator: Peggy Seeger [read bio]
Betty Auman (Music Division) -- Seeger Materials In The Library Of Congress Music Division. [read abstract & bio]
Judith Tick (Northeastern University) -- Ruth Crawford Seeger's Legacy. [read abstract & bio]
Taylor Aitken Greer (Pennsylvania State University) -- The Legacy Of Charles Seeger: Defying And Defining Tradition. [read abstract & bio]

11:30-1:00 pm --
ANOTHER GENERATION OF SEEGERS: PETE, MIKE & PEGGY SEEGER
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Moderator: Michael Taft (American Folklife Center)
Todd Harvey (American Folklife Center) --Seeger Collections At The American Folklife Center Archive. [read abstract & bio]
Jeff Place (Smithsonian Folkways Records)-- Seeger Materials In The Smithsonian Folkways Collection. [read abstract & bio]
David Dunaway (University of New Mexico) -- Documenting The Seegers. [read abstract & bio]

2:30-4:00 pm --
PERFORMING THE SEEGERS
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Moderator: Ray Allen (Brooklyn College, CUNY) [read abstract & bio]
Anthony Seeger (UCLA) -- “Something’s Coming That Stinks” (An Old American Folk Song?): Changing And Exchanging Songs With The Suyá Indians In Mato Grosso, Brazil. [read abstract & bio]
James Durst (Work O' the Weavers) -- Performing Pete In Work O’ The Weavers. [read abstract & bio]
Mike Seeger (Musician And Scholar) w/ Ray Allen (Brooklyn College, CUNY) --   Integrating Documentation, Presentation and Performance. [read abstract & bio]

4:00-5:30 pm --
POLITICS, THEORY & THE FOLK REVIVAL
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Moderator: Joe Hickerson (Folklorist, Performer) [read abstract & bio]
Bill Ivey (Vanderbilt University) -- Theorizing Folk and Country Music. [read abstract & bio]
Robert Cantwell (University of North Carolina) -- The Politics of Pete. [read abstract & bio]
Millie Rahn (Independent Folklorist) -- The "It Changed My Life" Syndrome: The Folk Revival. [read abstract & bio]

5:30-5:45 pm --
CLOSING REMARKS & SING ALONG WITH PETE SEEGER* [View Webcast]
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8:00-9:30 pm --
CONCERT (COOLIDGE AUDITORIUM, JEFFERSON BUILDING)
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Pete, Mike and Peggy Seeger with family and special friends
The Seeger Family concert will begin at 8 pm on March 16 in the Coolidge Auditorium, located on the ground floor of the Thomas Jefferson Building, 10 First Street, S.E.

For further information on the concert and performers, go to the Homegrown Archives 2007 web pages