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Reminiscent of Charles Seeger

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 February 2019

Mantle Hood
Mantle Hood*
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Honolulu, Hawaii
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Over a span of twenty-five years, I had the privilege of an extraordinary association with Charles Seeger. It began with an introduction by Jaap Kunst, in 1954, and ended with a letter dictated by Seeger and typed by his secretary (but still unsigned), a few days before his death in February, 1979. In our first meeting he was a teacher. In his last letter he was a warm concerned friend, and still a teacher. To say he is missed would be as redundant as saying one misses a brother, a father, a comrade-in-arms, a colleague, a best friend.

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Yearbook of the International Folk Music Council , Volume 11 , 1979 , pp. 76 - 82
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Copyright © 1979 By the International Folk Music Council 

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The Writings of Charles Seeger: A Selection

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