Peter Paul and Mary: Fifty Years in Music and Life (SIGNED)

Yarrow, Peter; Stookey, Noel Paul; Travers, Mary

ISBN 10: 1936140322 / ISBN 13: 9781936140329

Published by Imagine / Charlesbridge, Watertown, Massachusetts, 2015

About this Item

144 pages, Folio. SIGNED by Peter Yarrow and Paul Stookey on tipped in bookplate adhered to front endpaper. Shelfwear to DJ: light scuffing along edges and covers. DJ in mylar. Tightly bound, no marks. Volume is in Very Good condition.

Seller Inventory # 57062

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Peter Paul and Mary: Fifty Years in Music and Life (SIGNED)
• Publisher: Imagine / Charlesbridge, Watertown, Massachusetts
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1936140322
• ISBN 13: 9781936140329
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Printing.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Music and Dance
  • Signed Editions

About this title

Synopsis

"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 sound 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 antinuke 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 pwerful 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."

About the Author

Peter, Paul, and Mary came into being at the dawn of John F. Kennedy's presidency, as America entered one of its most dramatic periods of social and political change. With music being one of the great forces that brought them together, Americans united in unprecedented ways to create a more just and peaceful society. Folk music, with its ability to reach people's hearts, became the sound track of this remarkable quest, and Peter, Paul, and Mary became standard-bearers of America's new hopes and dreams.