2006FOLK MUSIC
INTERVIEW WITH SINGER, SONGWRITER, GUITARIST PETER YARROW FROM THE FOLK GROUP PETER, PAUL AND MARY FILMED BY MURRAY LERNER 2006 - DISCUSSES THE EVOLUTION OF 1960'S FOLK MUSIC AND THE NEWPORT FOLK FESTIVAL
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PETER YARROW TALKS ABOUT THE PURISTS LIKE LOMAX AND SEEGER AND THE CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS AND THE DICHOTOMY THAT EXISTED AT NEWPORT FOLK FESTIVAL BATTLE OF ESTHETICS - THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE PURISTS WHO WANTED THE OLDER FOLK ARTISTS RATHER THAN THE 1960'S FOLK REVIVALISTS
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PETER YARROW - "ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE DOES NOT ACKNOWLEDGE THE IMPORTANCE OF THE FOLK REVIVALISTS LIKE PETER, PAUL AND MARY - HOW BOB DYLAN GETTING TOGETHER WITH THE BEATLES CHANGED THINGS
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PETER YARROW TALKS ABOUT FOLK MUSIC AS BEING POLITICALLY CHARGED WITH ISSUES OF SOCIAL JUSTICE, SOCIAL AWARENESS - HOW THE 1960'S FOLK ARTISTS WERE ON THE FOREFRONT OF THAT - TALKS ABOUT THE EVOLUTION OF 60'S FOLK MUSIC FROM WOODY GUTHRIE AND THE WEAVERS ON UP AND HOW ROCK N' ROLL WAS NOT SOCIALLY CONSCIOUS LIKE FOLK MUSIC WAS AT THE TIME - THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE MESSAGE OF FOLK MUSIC AND ROCK MUSIC - HOW FOLK MUSIC WAS MORE SOCIALLY CONSCIOUS AND POLITICAL THAN ROCK MUSIC IN THE 1960S - UNTIL BOB DYLAN GOT TOGETHER WITH THE BEATLES
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THE NEWPORT FOLK FESTIVAL WAS THE ULTIMATE PLATFORM WHEN FOLK MUSIC FOUND ITSELF AT THAT TIME - FOLK MUSIC WAS A CULTURAL EXPLOSION AND NEWPORT WAS THE PLATFORM THAT PRESENTED IT NEWPORT WAS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT AND THE PERFORMERS DID NOT GET Paid " NEWPORT FOLK FESTIVAL WAS A CULTURAL EXPLOSION OF DELIGHT, RECOGNITION AND SPIRITUAL GROWTH "
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THE NEWPORT FOLK FESTIVAL HAS TO BE LOOKED UPON AS THE QUINTESSENTIAL REALITY OF THE MEETING OF MUSIC WITH SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE 1960S "AMERICANS WERE GOOD, BUT IF YOU ARE GOOD AND BLIND YOU WILL ALLOW BAD THINGS TO HAPPEN" - PETER YARROW DISCUSSES THE IMPORTANCE OF THE NEWPORT FOLK FESTIVAL AS A PLATFORM FOR 1960'S FOLK MUSIC - THE ULTIMATE STAGE FOR IT
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THE CONCISENESS OF THE 1960'S WAS EPITOMIZED AT THE NEWPORT FOLK FESTIVAL
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PETER YARROW TALKS ABOUT MUSIC IN THE 1960'S - AM RADIO IF YOU HAD A HIT PLAYED THE RECORD CONSTANTLY - FOLK MUSIC IN THE EARLY 60'S WAS PLAYED CONSTANTLY - AND BECAME PART OF THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE ERA -
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| 01:23:16 1396.57 |
YARROW TALKS ABOUT HOW AS PERFORMERS THEY OWE A DEPT TO PETE SEEGER, WOODY GUTHRIE AND THOSE WHO INSPIRED HIM AND CAME BEFORE HIM
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YARROW TALKS ABOUT THE SONGS HE AND THE GROUP SANG THAT HAD THE BIGGEST REACTIONS - "WHEN PP&M SANG FOR SOMETHING WE BELIEVED IN IT EFFECTED US AND OFTEN BROUGHT US TO TEARS
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PETER YARROW
WHERE HAVE ALL THE FLOWERS GONE?
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SINGS A FRAGMENT OF CLASSIC PETE SEEGER WRITTEN FOLK SONG AND TALKS ABOUT HOW EMOTIONAL IT CAN BE TO THE GROUP AND AUDIENCE BECAUSE OF THE SONG'S MEANING
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| 01:27:17 1637.52 |
YARROW TALKS ABOUT THE 60'S AS A TIME WHEN PEOPLE WERE WILLING TO GIVE THEIR LIVES TO FURTHER THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT - TALKS ABOUT MATHEW SHEPARD WHO WAS KILLED FOR BEING A HOMOSEXUAL
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PETER YARROW
LIGHT ONE CANDLLE
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SINGS VERSE OF SONG WRITTEN FOR MATHEW SHEPARD
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| 01:31:35 1895.36 |
PETER YARROW
THERE BUT FOR FORTUNE
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YARROW TALKS ABOUT TALKING FOLK MUSIC TRADITIONS AND MODERNIZING WITH NO RELEVANT LYRICS - TALKS ABOUT WHAT FOLK MUSIC IS "MUSIC OF THE PEOPLE" - LETTING A SONG COME THROUGH YOU
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| 01:36:46 2206.77 |
YARROW TALKS ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF THE NEWPORT FOLK FESTIVAL AND WHAT IT WAS
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| 01:38:33 2313.7 |
PETER YARROW
PUFF THE MAGIC DRAGON (EXPLAINED)
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YARROW TALKS ABOUT THE SPIRIT OF THAT ERA - SINGS A BIT AND EXPLAINS "PUFF THE MAGIC DRAGON" AND TALKS ABOUT WHAT TRADITIONAL FOLK MUSIC SHOULD BE
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PETER YARROW TALKS ABOUT HUMAN SOCIAL TRADITIONS
ARE DIFFERENT FORM OTHER TRADITIONS OF HUMAN BEINGS IN THEIR NATURAL ENVIRONMENT - HUMAN TRADITIONS |
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PETER YARROW TALKS ABOUT THE SONG " BLOWING IN THE WIND " AND TALKS ABOUT THE SONG " COME AND GO WITH ME TO THAT LAND" AS IT APPEARS IN THE FILM "FESTIVAL"
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| 01:44:54 2694.7 |
PETER YARROW ON THE BOB DYLAN SONG " THE TIMES THEY ARE A CHANGING"
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