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Guy Carawan
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American musician and musicologist (1927-2015)
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
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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
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
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- Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis
· 2022 · cited 13,134x
- Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
· 2012 · cited 10,740x
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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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