Singing for justice.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Freedman, Estelle, director.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Petric, Faith.

Folk singers--United States--Biography.

Folk singers.

Women singers--United States--Biography.

Women singers.

Folk music--Political aspects--United States--History--20th century.

Folk music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (00:59:19)) : sound, color

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Good Docs, 2024.

Language Note:

Closed-captions in English.

Summary:

An American original, Faith Petric (1915–2013) rejected conformity, built musical communities, and refreshingly embraced aging. Through her journey, Singing for Justice shows how committed networks of people sustain resistance to inequality — through speaking up and singing out. Told largely by Petric herself, the film draws upon a treasure trove of sources — creating a seamless narrative in which Faith was not abstractly affected by world events but chose actively to engage with them. Born in a log cabin and radicalized during the Great Depression, Faith Petric discovered folk music in college and in the Greenwich Village folk scene in the 1940s. She began singing for social justice — labor, peace, civil rights, and women's rights — for the rest of her life. After raising her daughter as a single mother, Faith retired at age 55 and reinvented herself as a traveling folk singer. For decades she toured the U.S. and internationally, performing into her 90s. She nurtured the San Francisco Folk Music Club, opening her home to generations of musicians and anyone who wanted to play and sing along. Faith's story encourages us to raise our own voices, find joy in protest, and create lives of meaningful engagement.

Participant:

Director, Estelle Freedman.

Notes:

Description based on XML content.

ISBN:

1-03-625081-4

9781036250812

OCLC:

1584442873

Publisher Number:

302657