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Political Songs
Pete Seeger
Line drawing of Pete Seeger, ca. 1950s. Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress (091.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0091]
Program for New York Society for Ethical Culture, Folk Song Festival series, January 29, 1955. American Folklife Center, Library of Congress (092.02.00)
[Digital ID # bhp0092_02]
Music and Controversy
People’s Songs. Pete Seeger sings with Henry Wallace in an airplane during a Southern campaign tour, September 1948. Reproduction. Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress (088.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0088]
Defendant-Appellant’s Brief. United States of America v. Peter Seeger. U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, submitted February 15, 1962. Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress (092.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0092]
“Should Pete Seeger Go to Jail?” Flyer, ca. 1961. American Folklife Center, Library of Congress (092.01.00)
[Digital ID # bhp0092_01]
A Topical Song Writer
Myra Buttle. “An Interview with Phil Ochs.” Hootenanny, July 1964. Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress (091.01.00)
[Digital ID # bhp0091_01]
Mainstream Folk Music
Robert Shelton (1926–1995). “Judy Collins/Why I Quit the A.B.C. Show.” Hootenanny, March 1964. Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress (093.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0093]
An Open Letter to Bob Dylan
Irwin Silber. “An Open Letter to Bob Dylan.” Sing Out! November, 1964. Courtesy of Joe Hickerson (093.01.00)
[Digital ID # bhp0093_01]
Music and the Civil Rights Movement
Photograph of Newport Folk Festival, July 1963, (from left): Peter Yarrow, Mary Travers, Noel Paul Stookey, Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, The Freedom Singers (Bernice Johnson, Cordell Reagon, 1943–1996, Rutha Harris, b. 1940, Charles Neblett, b. 1941), Pete Seeger, Theodore Bikel. Hootenanny, May 1964. Reproduction. Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress (090.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0090]
“We Are the World”
Garry Trudeau. Doonesbury, March 12, 1985. Drawing. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (094.00.00)
Causes and Controversies
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Satire in Song and Dance
“Dance Is a Weapon”
Alfredo Valente, photographer. “Van der Lubbe’s Head,” 1934. Copyprint. New Dance Group Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (059.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0059]
Musical Theater and Satire
George (1898–1937) and Ira Gershwin (1896–1983). “Who Cares?” from Of Thee I Sing. New York: New World Music, 1931. Sheet music. Gershwin Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (060.00.00)
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Ira Gershwin. “Who Cares?” Lyric sheet for Of Thee I Sing, 1952 revival. Gershwin Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (200.00.00)
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George and Ira Gershwin. Ink doodles of heads by George Gershwin with lyric by Ira Gershwin from “No Comprenez, No Capish, No Versteh!” in “League of Nations Finale,” from Let ’Em Eat Cake, 1933. Gershwin Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (201.00.00)
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Bob Hope’s Satire on the Stage
Bob Hope, Eve Arden, and Hugh O’Connell (1898–1943). Ziegfeld Follies of 1936. Copyprint. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (198.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0198]
Advertising flyer for Red, Hot and Blue! Alvin Theatre, New York, 1936. Copyprint. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (057.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0057]
The Cradle Will Rock
Marc Blitzstein with cast. The Cradle Will Rock, 1937. Copyprint. Federal Theatre Project Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (062.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0062]
Marc Blitzstein. Script for The Cradle Will Rock, 1937. Federal Theatre Project Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (061.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0061]
Marc Blitzstein. Script for The Cradle Will Rock, 1937. Federal Theatre Project Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (061.00.01)
[Digital ID # bhp0061p1]
Marc Blitzstein. Script for The Cradle Will Rock, 1937. Federal Theatre Project Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (061.00.02)
[Digital ID # bhp0061p2]
Sing for Your Supper
Poster for Sing for Your Supper. Adelphi Theatre, New York, 1939. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (196.01.00)
[Digital ID # ppmsca-31186]
South Pacific
Oscar Hammerstein II. Lyric sheet for “You’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught,” 1949. Richard Rodgers Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (058.01.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0058_01]
Richard Rodgers. “You’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught.” Manuscript score, 1949. Richard Rodgers Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (199.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0199]
“Call South Pacific Racial Propaganda,” New York Herald-Tribune, March 1, 1953. Newspaper clipping. Oscar Hammerstein II Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (058.03.00)
[Digital ID # bhp0058_03p00]
The Origins of West Side Story
William Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet. Boston: Ginn and Company, 1940. Edited by George Kittredge. Leonard Bernstein Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (196.00.00)
[Digital ID # bhp0196]
Help from a Presidential Speechwriter
Letter from Joshua Logan to Theodore Sorensen, October 23, 1962. Joshua Logan Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (203.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0203]
Letter from Joshua Logan to Theodore Sorensen, October 12, 1962. Joshua Logan Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (203.01.00)
[Digital ID # bhp0203_01]
Purlie
Purlie. Playbill, 1970. Lucy Kroll Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (204.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0204]
Causes and Controversies
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A Climate of Fear
House Committee on Un-American Activities
Gary Cooper testifying before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in Washington, D.C. October 23, 1947. Acme Photo. New York World-Telegram and Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (063.00.00)
[Digital ID# ppmsca-24369]
Walter Albertin, photographer. Lionel Stander, with attorney Leonard Boudin (1912–1989), testifying before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in New York. May 6, 1953. New York World-Telegram and Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (064.00.00)
[Digital ID# ppmsca-24370]
Blacklisting in Radio and Television
Red Channels: The Report of Communist Influence in Radio and Television. New York: Counterattack, 1950. Reproduction. General Collections, Library of Congress (065.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0065_01]
An Actor Protests Blacklisting
Letter from Sam Jaffe to Nate Spingold, May 22, 1953. Sam Jaffe Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (066.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0066]
Letter from R. Lawrence Siegel to Edward Cheyfitz, June 6, 1952. Sam Jaffe Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (066.01.00)
[Digital ID # bhp0066_01]
Letter from R. Lawrence Siegel to Sam Jaffe, November 1, 1951. Sam Jaffe Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (066.02.00)
[Digital ID # bhp0066_02]
Bob Hope Jokes about McCarthy
Letter from John Chapple to NBC, November 27, 1951. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (067.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0067]
Telegram from Senator Joseph McCarthy to Bob Hope, September 22, 1953. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (068.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0068]
Jokes on Senator McCarthy for show sponsored by General Foods, May 11, 1954. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (067.02.00)
[Digital ID # bhp0067_02]
Jokes on Senator McCarthy for show sponsored by General Foods, June 1, 1954. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (067.01.00)
[Digital ID # bhp0067_01]
Letter from James M. Docherty to Bob Hope, June 11, 1954. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (068.02.00)
[Digital ID # bhp0068_02]
Letter from Irene B. Seccor to Bob Hope, June 2, 1954. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (068.03.00)
[Digital ID # bhp0068_03]
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