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Guy Carawan
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American musician and musicologist (1927-2015)
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Within Vinony's link graph, Guy Carawan is referenced by 560 other articles, and connects out to civil rights movement, New York City and Mahatma Gandhi.
Vinony files it under 1927 births, 2015 deaths and 20th-century American guitarists.
Its subject is documented across 6 Wikipedia language editions.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 17
Top works
- Freedom is a constant struggle
- Guy Carawan sings something old, new, borrowed, and blue
- Songs by Guy Carawan
- This little light of mine
- Sing for Freedom
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1927-07-27
- Active to
- 2015-05-02
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 2,018
- Total plays
- 8,518
Tags
Guy Carawan ( July 27, 1927 - May 2, 2015) was an American folk musician and musicologist. He served as music director and song leader for the Highlander Research and Education Center in New Market, Tennessee. Carawan is famous for introducing the protest song "We Shall Overcome" to the American Civil Rights Movement, by teaching it to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in 1960. A union organizing song based on a black spiritual, it had been a favorite of Zilphia Horton (d. <a
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Los Angeles
- Occupation
- guitarist
- Educated at
- Occidental College
- Notable work
- We Shall Overcome
- Image
- Guy carawan photo.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1927-07-27
- date of death
- 2015-05-02
- start of work period
- 1950-00-00
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