Huxley in Hollywood

Aldous Huxley moves through Hollywood during its golden age, surrounded by such luminaries as Charlie Chaplin and Greta Garbo, winning fame as a smart-set novelist and prophet of science, meditation, and mesmerism

Biographies & Memoirs

Dunaway, David King

Arts & Literature

Harpercollins

Seeger's private papers and numerous interviews with his friends, family, and fellow musicians provide material for a detailed portrait of the famous folk singer, tracing his career and influence as singer and surveying his political development

How Can I Keep from Singing: Pete Seeger

Arts & Photography

Music

McGraw=Hill

Singing Out: An Oral History of America's Folk Music Revivals (Oxford Oral History Series)

Intimate, anecdotal, and spell-binding, Singing Out offers a fascinating oral history of the North American folk music revivals and folk music. Culled from more than 150 interviews recorded from 1976 to 2006, this captivating story spans seven decades and cuts across a wide swath of generations and perspectives, shedding light on the musical, political, and social aspects of this movement. The narrators highlight many of the major folk revival figures, including Pete Seeger, Bernice Reagon, Phil Ochs, Mary Travers, Don McLean, Judy Collins, Arlo Guthrie, Ry Cooder, and Holly Near. Together they tell the stories of such musical groups as the Composers' Collective, the Almanac Singers, People's Songs, the Weavers, the New Lost City Ramblers, and the Freedom Singers. Folklorists, musicians, musicologists, writers, activists, and aficionados reveal not only what happened during the folk revivals, but what it meant to those personally and passionately involved. For everyone who ever picked up a guitar, fiddle, or banjo, this will be a book to give and cherish. Extensive notes, bibliography, and discography, plus a photo section.

Beer, Molly

Oxford University Press

How Can I Keep from Singing?: Pete Seeger

Harrap Publishing Group Ltd

How Can I Keep from Singing? is the compelling story of how the son of a respectable Puritan family became a consummate performer and American rebel. Updated with new research and interviews, unpublished photographs, and thoughtful comments from Pete Seeger himself, this is an inside history of the man Carl Sandburg called “America’s Tuning Fork.” In the only biography on Seeger, David Dunaway parts the curtains on his life. Who is this rail-thin, eighty-eight-year-old with the five-string banjo, whose performances have touched millions of people for more than seven decades? Bob Dylan called him a saint. Joan Baez said, “We all owe our careers to him.” But Seeger’s considerable musical achievements were overshadowed by political controversy when he became perhaps the most blacklisted performer in American history. He was investigated for sedition, harassed by the FBI and the CIA, picketed, and literally stoned by conservative groups. Still, he sang. Today, Seeger remains an icon of conscience and culture, and his classic antiwar songs, sung by Bruce Springsteen and millions of others, live again in the movement against foreign wars. His life holds lessons for surviving repressive times and for turning to music to change the world. “This biography is a beauty. It captures not only the life of the bard but the world of which he sings.” –Studs Terkel “A fine and meticulous biography . . . Dunaway has taken [Seeger’s] materials and woven them into a detailed, interesting, and well-written narrative of a most fascinating life.” –American Music “An extraordinary tale of an extraordinary man [that] will intrigue not only his legions of followers but everyone interested in one man’s battles and victories.” –Chicago Sun-Times

How Can I Keep from Singing?: The Ballad of Pete Seeger

Humor & Entertainment

Random House Publishing Group

Sensational and startling, this is the unforgettable story of the brilliant English novelist's life in Hollywood, where he worked as a screenwriter during its Golden Age.

Regional U.S.

Anchor

David King Dunaway has crafted an oral history of Huxley's central place in intellectual history that restores Huxley's reputation during his American years. After a brilliant early career with novels like Antic Hay and Chrome Yellow, Huxley's reputation suffered with his exile to California, which he undertook partly for the sake of his failing sight, partly out of disappointment with the European peace movement and partly in search of a new spiritual direction. This wide-ranging study includes interviews with Huxley's family, Isherwood and other key figures in British and American letters, with such sources as his FBI file and his newly discovered film scripts for Jane Eyre and Pride and Prejudice. In addition, never-before published interviews trace Huxley's pioneering steps into the world of meditation and psychoactive drugs. In a chronological exploration of Huxley's life, the book portrays the intimate side to Huxley's shift from a satiric novelist to a prophet of science, sociology and mysticism.

Aldous Huxley Recollected: An Oral History

Carroll & Graf Pub.

Pete Seeger is one of the most recorded artists in American history, and his recording catalog tells us not just the story of his career but the story of our culture and its political and social history. A Pete Seeger Discography: Seventy Years of Recordings is a comprehensive listing of the 45s, 78s, LPs, and CDs recorded by Seeger in his various incarnations: with the Almanac Singers, with the Weavers, as a solo artist, and with other musicians and contributors. David King Dunaway provides information, with easy to use cross-references, on rare recordings and archival collections. The discography offers details on Seeger's recording history, including the album title, song(s), other artists on the recording, the publisher and number, and the year or exact recording date if known, as well as the original release date and the re-releases of each recording. Structured to make locating details easy for readers, the recordings are organized chronologically and categorized by albums, singles, private pressings, and foreign releases. Readers can easily cross-reference through album and song title indexes and a contributing artist index. An appendix listing the unreleased archival holdings of the Smithsonian Folkways collection under Moe Asch completes the volume, and a photospread with more than 30 of Seeger's album covers convey a pictorial recording history of this well-loved artist. The authors gratefully acknowledge Furthermore: a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund, for their funding assistance in preparing this discography.

A Pete Seeger Discography: Seventy Years of Recordings (Volume 14) (American Folk Music and Musicians Series, 14)

Scarecrow Press

Writing the Southwest

First published in 1995, this assemblage of interviews, bibliographies, excerpts, and criticism on fourteen of the Southwest's most important authors has been updated and expanded. The accompanying 74-minute compact disc provides excerpts from the authors. Tony Hillerman discusses how blindness in the army helped shape his writings; Terry McMillan explains her start as a writer and why she thought, when she was young, that African-Americans didn't write books. Each recorded interview ranges from 4 to 10 minutes.
 Reviews of the first edition:
 "Much more than an ordinary compilation. . . . A vivid composite of the region's best-known writers, Writing the Southwest is an excellent sampling of unique viewpoints and deep roots."-Publishers Weekly
 "The writers included here . . . represent the vital ethnic mixture of the Southwest past and present. . . . For modern literature students, as well as those who are curious about the backgrounds of some of their favorite writers, this is a good choice."--Kliatt

Literature & Fiction

Spurgeon, Sara

United States

University of New Mexico Press

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Huxley in Hollywood

How Can I Keep from Singing: Pete Seeger

Singing Out: An Oral History of America's Folk Music Revivals (Oxford Oral History Series)

Singing Out: An Oral History of America's Folk Music Revivals (Oxford Oral History Series)

How Can I Keep from Singing?: Pete Seeger

How Can I Keep from Singing?: The Ballad of Pete Seeger

Huxley in Hollywood

Aldous Huxley Recollected: An Oral History

A Pete Seeger Discography: Seventy Years of Recordings (Volume 14) (American Folk Music and Musicians Series, 14)

Writing the Southwest