page_title: Ruth Crawford Seeger
section_title: Family
hierarchical_section_title: Ruth Crawford Seeger / Family
caption_attribution_description: Peggy Seeger in 2011 at the University of Salford, where she was awarded an honorary doctorate.
context_page_description: Ruth Crawford Seeger, born Ruth Porter Crawford, was an American modernist composer active primarily during the 1920s and 1930s and an American folk music specialist from the late 1930s until her death. She was a prominent member of a group of American composers known as the "ultramoderns," and her music influenced later composers including Elliott Carter.
context_section_description: In 1932, she married Charles Seeger. Their children, including Mike Seeger, Peggy Seeger, Barbara, Penny, and older stepson Pete Seeger, knew their mother as "Dio". Several of the children as musical artists themselves became central to the American folk revival, but they had little knowledge of their mother's former life as a beacon of American ultramodernism (Robin 2017).
caption: Crawford Seeger passed on folk music to daughter Peggy Seeger – still influential in folk music
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