Pete Seeger wants you to save SingOut!

Subject: RE: Pete Seeger wants you to save SingOut
From: Bill D
Date: 23 Nov 09 - 05:07 PM

I was able on Sat. eve. to look thru, at a friend's, several issues from 2005-2006... (nothing newer..I believe she no longer subscribes).

Yes... I do see articles and content I'd like to have access to, and if money were no object I'd do it for the 30% or so I really care about. At about 60% I'd find the money, no matter what.
It really is tedious being 70 and on a fixed income and since I'm a picky old curmudgeon about content, I just balk. That is sort of irrelevant to the current issue, but I had opened my mouth earlier....so....


I really DO hope it works out...it would be sad to see an institution fail, like I have watched many local bookstores fail for 20 years.

Subject: RE: Pete Seeger wants you to save SingOut
From: Joe Offer
Date: 08 Nov 12 - 01:34 AM

Sing Out! Magazine arrived today, Volume 55, No. 1, dated Autumn 2012. The magazine is greatly reduced in size - 48 pages, instead of the 136 pages in the previous issue - Volume 54, No. 4, dated Fall 2011 / Winter 2012. The current issue has no reviews, no obituaries, no Joe Hickerson "Songfinder" column or Faith Petric parodies section. The opening letter from Editor Mark Moss says that magazine has had serious financial problems, and had to cut back severely. What's left is still a very good magazine. Let's hope these changes will allow the magazine to survive.
Keep up the good work, Mark.

-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Pete Seeger wants you to save SingOut
From: Wesley S
Date: 08 Nov 12 - 07:41 AM

Ditto from me. Let's hope Sing Out makes it. To lose this resource would be unthinkable.

Subject: RE: Pete Seeger wants you to save SingOut
From: kendall
Date: 08 Nov 12 - 07:46 AM

Change is inevitable. Resistance to change is also inevitable.

Subject: RE: Pete Seeger wants you to save SingOut
From: GUEST,Desi C
Date: 08 Nov 12 - 08:34 AM

I strongly reccomend Pete's Sing Out book, one of the best selection of songs ever, most with chords, worth every penny

Subject: RE: Pete Seeger wants you to save SingOut
From: Charley Noble
Date: 08 Nov 12 - 09:22 AM

I'll ante up again but it's probably hopeless. Sing Out! would do better going to a digital format.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Pete Seeger wants you to save SingOut
From: Stringsinger
Date: 08 Nov 12 - 12:48 PM

When I was younger in the early Fifties I couldn't wait to get my little copy of Sing Out!, an exciting controversial, argumentative, politically aware, and highly musical and honest mag.

I collected them all and always had one at the bottom of my guitar case.

Then, I think it was browbeaten by those who didn't like the political content.
The name of the magazine comes from Pete and Lee's song, "If I Had a Hammer,
I'd sing out danger and I'd sing out a warning". If this were the goal of Sing Out!
I would support it in a heartbeat or a New York minute. Irwin was irascible, hard hitting, sometimes rubbing people the wrong way and I loved every minute of it.
I loved the dialogue between Irwin and Izzy Young and when SO became more of
a scholarly fanzine, I lost interest. I want Sing Out! to be its noisy, controversial,
non-commercialized, hot headed self again without the emphasis on insider star folkies who I really don't care about (which Irwin went after) or long winded dissertations.. I want to see it agitate like it used to because there is so much that needs to be said today as the US slips into a corporate state. I don't want SO to go there. I liked it when it was "street" and people spoke out against injustice. Yes, times change and people get complacent. SO was a beacon of light in the political darkness and I wish it were feisty again.

Subject: RE: Pete Seeger wants you to save SingOut
From: Mark Ross
Date: 08 Nov 12 - 01:16 PM

I sure agree with you Frank. That was the SO I loved way back when.

Mark Ross

Subject: RE: Pete Seeger wants you to save SingOut!
From: Joe Offer
Date: 24 Apr 21 - 08:06 PM

Sing Out! hasn't been in print for quite a while - it published sporadically at the end, and its last print issue was Volume 55 #4, Spring 2014 - marking the death of Pete Seeger. It's still coming out with occasional online articles at https://singout.org/ and as a podcast at https://singout.podomatic.com/


I'd still like to see online PDF copies of the entire run of the magazine. The Sing Out! Website hosts the run of Broadside Magazine, but doesn't have its own back issues online. I wrote to editor Mark Moss, offering to underwrite the posting of back issues, but I never heard back from him.

Apparently, the archives of Sing Out! are at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill:

https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/20550/

Subject: RE: Pete Seeger wants you to save SingOut!
From: Phil Cooper
Date: 24 Apr 21 - 10:42 PM

I had a subscription from High school in the early '70's till they went digital. I did pay for an online subscription, I got the first issue for the year, but had difficulty actually accessing. The next issue, I could just see the cover and not even get to the table of contents. When I wrote, I got an answer about making sure Zinio had my correct email address. I made sure it did. I never got more issues of the magazine. But I still get junk emails from zinio.