First time ever : a memoir / Peggy Seeger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Seeger, Peggy, 1935- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Seeger, Peggy, 1935-.

Seeger, Peggy.

Seeger, Peggy 1935-.

Folk singers--United States--Biography.

Folk singers.

Musicians.

United States.

Great Britain.

Musicians--Great Britain--Biography.

Local Subjects:

Seeger, Peggy 1935-.

Musicians--Great Britain--Biography.

Folk singers--United States--Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

xiv, 450 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Faber & Faber, 2017.

Summary:

"Peggy Seeger is one of folk music's most influential artists and songwriters. Born in New York City in 1935, she enjoyed a childhood steeped in music and left-wing politics - they remain her lifeblood. After college, she traveled to Russia and China - against US advice - before arriving in London, where she met the man with whom she would raise three children and share the next thirty-three years: Ewan MacColl. Together, they helped lay the foundations of the British folk revival, through the influential Critics Group and the landmark BBC Radio Ballads series. And as Ewan's muse, she inspired one of the twentieth century's most popular love songs, "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face". With a clear eye and generous spirit, Peggy writes of a roller-coaster life - of birth and abortion, sex and infidelity, devotion and betrayal - in a luminous, beautifully realized account."--Amazon.com.

Contents:

1935-1955. Twice upon a time ; Childhood ; Growing up ; The songs and the singers ; The helpers ; School ; 1953 ; North, west and east

1955-1960s. Europe ; England ; Santa Barbara and Chicago ; Break a leg ; Moscow ; China ; Russia and Poland ; Marking time ; Alf Edwards ; Conversation in France ; A new family ; Folk revival ; Wallpaper and the meaning of music ; The end of the beginning ; Settling down ; The radio ballads ; Charles Parker ; Collector's fever ; The women who came to work

1960s-1989. The critics group ; From overcoat to sandstorms ; The golden years ; Napoleon and me ; The occupants of hell ; Break the other leg ; Living the songs ; The shows go on and on until ; 1989 ; The little wooden box

1990-2016. No spring chickens ; Alone again, naturally ; Personal political progression ; Asheville, North Carolina: Part one ; Asheville, North Carolina: Part two ; Boston, songwriting ; Are lawnmowers and folk music political? ; From there to here ; The first time ever ; Life with Sydney and Big Charlie ; The beginning of the end ; Slow express to eternity ; The last time ever.

ISBN:

9780571336791

0571336795

OCLC:

969970685