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Chargement... Peter Paul and Mary: Fifty Years in Music and Life (2014)par Peter Yarrow, Noel Paul Stookey (Auteur), Mary Travers (Auteur)
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"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"-- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Some of this magic is recalled in “Peter, Paul and Mary: Fifty Years in Music and Life” (2015). Although Mary died six years before this photographic biography was published, it is written in first person plural, as if all three of them participated in the writing.
The book covers the folk trio's entire career, but the best part of the book, like the best part of their career, comes early. They tell how they found each other, how they rehearsed for long hours in Mary's tiny Greenwich Village apartment and how their act soon exploded, coming on the scene at the perfect time when folk music became mainstream. The first song they ever sang together — just to see how their voices blended — was “Mary Had a Little Lamb.”
Photographs occupy nearly every page, with the text used as filler around the edges. Some of these images, especially one taken by Annie Leibovitz taken late in their career, are stunning.
The latter half of the book mostly concerns the group's many progressive political and social causes. The book notes that despite their leftist views, which they never tried to hide, their fans included many people on the right and center of the spectrum. The book even includes a letter from a Warner Brothers Records executive who tells them how much he enjoys their music, while at the same time urging them to tone down their politics. The group was so popular they didn't have to listen to his advice. (