Fact #144264
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In a letter to author Ray M. Lawless, Pete Seeger states that he is "not a folksinger in the musicological or anthropological sense of the term". Seeger also denies that he is "authentic", arguing that the term is "so debated as to be almost meaningless without elaborate definition". (Lawless is compiling a book entitled Folksingers And Folksongs in America)