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Pete Seeger’s Rainbow Quest: televisual old age, intergenerationalism, and US folk music

Simon H. BuckDepartment of Arts and Humanities, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UKCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 69-94 | Published online: 18 Apr 2019

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