Guy Carawan
Guy Hughes Carawan Jr., born on July 28, 1927, in Los Angeles, California, was
an American folk musician and musicologist. He earned a bachelor's degree in
mathematics from Occidental College and a master's degree in sociology from UCLA
before moving to New York City and becoming involved with the American folk
music revival in Greenwich Village during the 1950s. He played the banjo,
guitar, hammered and Appalachian dulcimers, and recorder. He served as music
director at the Highlander Research and Education Center in New Market,
Tennessee, where he introduced "We Shall Overcome"...
