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	Folk music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		During the 20th and 21st century, a revival of folk began and the term folk music took on a second meaning: it describes a particular kind of popular music which is culturally descended from or otherwise influenced by traditional folk music.
		Folk music is still extremely popular among some audiences today, with folk music clubs meeting to share traditional-style songs, and there are major folk music festivals in many countries, eg the Port Fairy Folk Festival is a major annual event in Australia attracting top international folk performers as well as many local artists.
		Folk music is easy to parody because it is, at present, a popular music genre that relies on a traditional music genre.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Folk_music (5710 words)

	Roots revival - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In most cases, the folk music being revived were not quite extinct, though some hadn't been played for years or were moribund; such cases include the Celtic music of Cornwall and the Isle of Man, for example.
		With such a vague and variable definition, roots revival could be seen as referring to the creation of any kind of pop music industry, though there are countries with well-developed pop traditions that have not had a period referred to as a roots revival (such as Jamaica, India, Cuba and Kenya).
		By the mid-1960s, a folk revival was blossoming, led by Edgar Jofré.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roots_revival (2375 words)

	Folk Lore
		Folk music was deemed "naive" and relegated to the place it remains today -- in the margins of popular culture.
		Folk music is pure and noble, they claimed, and offers us a way to get back in touch with the roots of America.
		The revivalists claimed that folk had a political and moral authority from 'the people,' but in fact the leaders of the movement were for the most part white, middle-class, and college-educated.
	www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/1998/03.12/FolkLore.html (926 words)

	THE SIXTIES - Folk Music
		Folk music historian Robert Cantwell explains the new trend as a reaction to the end of the Red Scare, when the political folksingers of the left had been driven underground by Senator McCarthy's hunt for communists.
		Two things made the folk revival culturally and artistically significant and not just a fit of nostalgia for simpler times and a simpler life.
		While Seeger was mining the folk music of the recent American past, carrying on the tradition of Woody Guthrie who had finally died in 1961 after a long illness, the young Joan Baez was mining a deeper past, and one that was to have a tremendous influence on the new generation of writers.
	www.balladtree.com /folk101/a_60s1a.htm (637 words)

	ECHO IV/2:Symposium Intro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Taken as a package, it seems we are in the midst of a “folk revival”—a period when popular (and corporate) culture looks to music, art, and other cultural forms that are seen as “folkloric,” treated as if created by communities of music-makers without the interference or mediation of technology.
		Like its predecessors, this folk revival comes at a time of dramatic demographic change, the centralization of large corporations, and the rapid rise of new technology (the internet, in particular) that effects the way we relate to one another, to our communities, and to our nation on the most fundamental levels.
		“Folk music,” constructed in various ways, has long been an arena of imagining nationhood, and, we believe, it is vital that we interpret this phenomenon to understand the nation we are imagining.
	www.humnet.ucla.edu /humnet/musicology/echo/volume4-issue2/folk/folk1.html (1120 words)

	Folk Music Revival: American Folklife Center
		The Folk Archive includes recordings and other material from the National Folk Festival, an annual event now coordinated by the National Council for the Traditional Arts (NCTA) of Silver Spring, Maryland.
		The Folk Archive also houses a major collection of recorded music and other material concerning the “folk revival” that occurred in the 1950s and 1960s, when many college students learned to play the guitar and the coffeehouse was a favorite social venue.
		Many women performers are associated with the folk revival, both as individuals, such as folksinger and musician Jean Ritchie, and as members of groups, such as Ronnie Gilbert of the Weavers.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /ammem/awhhtml/awafc11/revival.html (259 words)

	The Politics of the Folk Music Revival
		Folk music was deemed "naive" and relegated to the place it remains today in the margins of popular culture.
		Emily has decided to use the folk revival as a means to look at larger issues involving race and class in grass roots movements.
		According to Emily, the first traces of a folk music "revival" can be found in the 1930s and 1940s, when American socialist and communist groups championed the music as the true art of the proletariat.
	www.seo.harvard.edu /news/1997-12.html (982 words)

	Folk Revival Downloads - Download Folk Revival Music - Download Folk Revival MP3s
		Ironically, the folk revival's popularity dipped sharply in the mid-'60s, after the British Invasion took over America, but the folk revival remains a pivotal moment in 20th century pop music.
		During the folk boom of the late '50s and early '60s, the NLCR introduced the authentic string-band sound of the 1920s and '30s, in the process educating a generation that had never heard this uniquely American sound of old-time music.
		In 1961, the folk duo got together and recorded their debut album, Gibson & Camp at the Gate of Horn, which turned out to be a landmark folk release that influenced a generation of musicians.
	www.mp3.com /genre/226/subgenre.html (5021 words)

	Rockument Radio - Roots - Folk Songs in Rock Pt. 1
		It shows how folk arrangements were hastily converted to rock, and points the way to the wild, uninhibited musical forms based on conservative roots, such as "country rock" and "folk rock".
		But one thing is certain: news of the disgruntled folk heavyweights swept through the pop and folk music press, setting the expectation of booing so that, at subsequent shows in 1965 and 1966, many of folk-oriented audience members booed.
		This sad folk song by Marijohn Wilkins and Dunny Dill was covered by a lot of folk groups, including the most popular folk group of the early 1960s folk revival, the Kingston Trio.
	www.rockument.com /roots_folksongs1.html (3058 words)

	Folk File: M
		By 1951 she was singing on a local radio station, and with the coming of the folk revival, she made recordings for Folkways, and is now in demand at major festivals.
		In Western folk music, we tend to get locked to the notes of the scale, but microtones are still used as expressive devices by singers, by whistle players, or by players of continuous-tone instruments like the violin.
		In folk music, it's common for the melody to spend a lot of time around the dominant note, which is a fifth above the starting note of the mode (which is called the "final" note, because the song usually ends on it).
	www.folklib.net /folkfile/m.shtml (8632 words)

	Traditional Folk Downloads - Download Traditional Folk Music - Download Traditional Folk MP3s
		On one side was the newly identified topical folk audience, principally younger college students and more serious high-school students, augmented by older activist-oriented types who had kept their heads down and their profiles low for most of the late '50s.
		Peter, Paul & Mary were part of the 1960s folk revival, but they can trace their roots and inspiration back to music and events from the late '40s, and the founding of the Weavers.
		One, deriving from their success, was a modest folk song revival, in some small clubs and especially on college campuses, mostly as entertainment; and the other, a byproduct of their fllisting, was the coalescing of newly vital, very politically focused branch of folk music.
	www.mp3.com /traditional-folk/genre/222/subgenre.html (8493 words)

	Folksy Links - Folk Bands and Musicians On Line
		Kepa Junkera, is a folk music icon in the Basque region and an innovator on the diatonic accordion known in the region as trikitixa.
		Nagual, their aim is to deepen their knowledge about music origins, modern trends, shaping of folk cultures, relations among people, since these factors directly influence the group's creativity.
		Myrdhin, is considered to be one of the most eminent traditionnel performers in the Breton tradition and one of the actor of the Celtic Harp revival in Brittany during the 70's.
	www.folksylinks.it /folksy_b.html (4888 words)

	BBC - Music - A quick guide to Folk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		By the early 1960s though, the second Folk Revival (the first had been around the time Sharp had his Road to Oxford conversion) was underway.
		Shetland Folk with its emphasis on fiddle virtuosity (and one of the few folk forms to use the piano as a prominent instrument) is often seen as a separate development from mainland Scottish music.
		While a strong folk tradition had flourished in the Southern Appalachians since shortly after the Civil War, modern Folk music in America emerged in the Great Depression, with Woody Guthrie and countless other songwriters developing an individual American voice in the dustbowls of Arizona.
	www.bbc.co.uk /music/folkcountry/guide_folk.shtml (946 words)

	BBC - Radio 2 - Folk and Acoustic
		To those who arrived at folk music via the '60s revival, it seemed initially that the most arresting lyrics were accompanied by acoustic guitars.
		Any study of the Folk Revival is to be welcomed, and Brocken certainly covers the waterfront: Topic Records, skiffle, the English Folk Dance & Song Society, Workers' Music Association, Fairport But, ultimately, however rigorous the analysis, he somehow misses the heart of the story.
		With a background of five generations of folk practitioners and performers in my family, I started collecting, recording and broadcasting folk music in Britain in the very year of 1944 that Michael Brocken thinks the Revival began, and I was one of the main protagonists for a Post-War or Second Revival.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio2/r2music/folk/reviews/britfolkbook.shtml (903 words)

	White Folk Music
		Because the period 1954-1965 coincided with the Folk revival in America, because of the grass-root nature of most of the Movement activities and because most protest songs were based on folk songs, many white folk musicians rallied to the cause.
		Werner explains that the Folk revival movement, as represented by Baez, Seeger or the group Peter, Paul and Mary, tended to create images of nostalgia, comfort and ultimately passivity (53-54) which clashed with the call to action and resolve of African-American song leaders.
		Like Joan Baez and other folk singers, his music lacked the rhythmic bounce present in the African-American tradition but his peculiar voice and loose delivery added to his heartfelt lyrics to offer a somewhat convincing tie to the acoustic blues tradition.
	www.artsci.wustl.edu /~jscamal/civilrights/WhiteFolk.htm (732 words)

	Folk File: G
		Though it has a centuries-old history, being a relative of the lute, it was seen as a sort of front-parlor diversion in North America until the turn of the century, with the then-dominant instruments being the fiddle and the banjo.
		The folk version is almost always the six-string acoustic with steel strings, and usually the neck joins the body at the 14th fret for easier access to higher frets.
		It was relatively unknown outside of country blues until the folk revival, being played mainly by performers such as Leadbelly, Blind Willie McTell, and Fuller, Jesse.
	www.folklib.net /folkfile/g.shtml (5526 words)

	Bringing It All Back Home: The Folk Music Revival
		Folk and protest music as we know it in the 1960s had its roots at the turn of the 20th century.
		The International Workers of the World (IWW), whose members were known as Wobblies, first wrote protest songs as part of their drive to equality for American workers.
		Folk music began to reappear in 1960, and came back in a big way by 1961, embraced by the new generation of college students.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/1960s_music/112800 (449 words)

	OakStoneClassics.co.uk - Blog - Folk - Accoustic Roots - Pete Seeger
		He was a major contributor to folk and pioneer of protest music in the 1950s and the 1960s.
		He was a founding member of the folk groups The Almanac Singers with Woody Guthrie and The Weavers with Lee Hays and Ronnie Gilbert.
		To describe the new crop of folk singers, many of whom were politically minded in their songs, he coined the phrase "Woody's children", alluding to his former bandmate Woody Guthrie, who by this time had become a legendary figure.
	www.oakstoneclassics.co.uk /Blog/tabid/671/EntryID/212/Default.aspx (1421 words)

	FolkWorld Article: The revival of German folk music
		Just like the folk revivals in most European countries, the main influence for the German folk scene came from the USA and their protest folk singers of the 60s.
		When a folk band would sing a traditional emigration song of the 19th century, they would officially present it as a documentation of the poverty of the last century, but normal folk would directly know the relation to the governmental prohibition to travel out of the country.
		The 80s CD is for collectors of Celtic and anglo-american folk music already interesting because of two unusual collaborations: The Sands Family, Dick Gaughan and Eastern German band Wacholder sing together "Es ist an der Zeit/Green Fields of France"; and Dick Gaughan joining forces with Eric Bogle to sing "Which side are you on".
	www.folkworld.de /14/e/germany.html (1739 words)

	'The British Folk Revival' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Our most recent Article, on Topic Records and the WMA is, in fact, but one chapter of Mike Brocken's PhD thesis on the folk music revival as part of the wider popular music genre.
		The whole work is likely to be published in commercial book form later this year or next, but he has given us permission to publish it here, first, in its original form.
		I also think that - while I don't agree with all of them - his insights into the sociological and philological aspects of the wider world of music are both fascinating and thought provoking.
	members.tripod.com /folkrootsnewroutes/id9.html (359 words)

	Southern Folk Cultural Revival Project Collection Inventory (#20004)
		Founded in 1966 by Anne Romaine and Bernice Johnson Reagon, the Southern Folk Cultural Revival Project (SFCRP), based in Nashville, Tenn., worked to present traditional musicians from fl and white cultures in performance together at a time when this was considered controversial.
		Preservation of and access to the Southern Folk Cultural Revival Project Collection were made possible through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
		The Southern Folk Festival and related tours the Appalachian Music Festival, the Oldtime Mountain Music Show and its inheritor the Southern Grassroots Music Tour are the original projects of the organization that became the SFCRP.
	www.lib.unc.edu /mss/inv/htm/20004.html (6431 words)

	Bob Gibson
		Gibson co-wrote such folk classics as "Abilene," "Well, Well, Well," and "You Can Tell The World." His songs were recorded by many prominent folk artists, including Peter, Paul and Mary, the Kingston Trio, Glenn Yarbrough, and Joan Baez.
		Bob Gibson was there at the forefront of the folk movement and he was, and is a modern day troubadour.
		He should have been folk music's biggest star, yet his name and story are sadly unknown by most.
	www.folkera.com /bobgibson (377 words)

	Packaging's Folk Revival
		As folk art grows in popularity, marketers are using folk imagery to sell goods ranging from cookies to CDs.
		Experts say folk imagery is also ending up on store shelves because it implies wholesomeness -- plus, it's distinctive.
		Among the first to employ folk art were the Talking Heads and R.E.M., who used Howard Finster paintings as album covers.
	www.inc.com /magazine/20030601/25504.html (412 words)

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		This book, first published in 1968, is still widely respected as the pioneering and most comprehensive study of the history of country music from its pre-commercial folk roots through the development of the modern country music industry.
		There are also entries for folk festivals and venues, publications, and terms and genres such as "bluegrass," "Cajun music," and "Folk process." Bartis, Peter T. and Fertig, Barbara C. Folklife Sourcebook: A Directory of Folklife Resources in the United States and Canada.
		There is a lengthy article on folk music by Bruno Nettl, and general articles about folk instruments, such as the banjo, folk music collectors, such as John Jacob Niles, and folk music genres such as field hollers, gospel and shape-note singing.
	library.music.indiana.edu /tech_s/mla/wgpms/wgpms.cou (2446 words)

	Harvard University Press: When We Were Good: The Folk Revival by Robert S. Cantwell
		Cantwell shows how a body of music once enlisted on behalf of the labor movement, antifascism, New Deal recovery efforts, and many other progressive causes of the 1930s was refashioned as an instrument of self-discovery, even as it found a new politics and cultural style in the peace, civil rights, and beat movements.
		In Washington Square and the Newport Folk Festival, on college campuses and in concert halls across the country, the folk revival gave voice to the generational tidal wave of postwar youth, going back to the basics and trying to be very, very good.
		Taking up some of the more obdurate problems in cultural studies--racial identity, art and politics, regional allegiances, class differences--he shows how the folk revival was a search for authentic democracy, with compelling lessons for our own time.
	www.hup.harvard.edu /catalog/CANWHE.html (304 words)

	FolkWorld Article: Folk Revival in Holland
		This is indeed the sign of a new revival, while the background seems to be quite different in both countries.
		Eltjo Toorn emphasises that the previous folkrevival was a subculture of students, while the new revival in the Netherlands is not a revival carried by young people, but by "older people and older young-people".
		Another distinction of the Dutch revival is that it is located in smaller towns and villages, mainly in the South of the Netherlands; most new folk festivals are located there.
	www.folkworld.de /13/e/holland.html (2512 words)

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