The great folksong revival of the 1940s through 1960s made rural white and African American artists and their music favorites of audiences everywhere. While key figures associated with the American ...

Folk music is traditional music that belongs to a particular culture or group of people. Most folk music includes singing and musical instruments. It is music created by ordinary people within a ...

In the Mountain Strings, Celtic and American Ensembles, BYU students explore various types of music from around the world, from Ireland and Scotland to Russia and Macedonia.

"American" music includes much more than the western classical music ... Cramer and Grace Cramer Small, pioneers, folk singers, folk song collectors. Includes tape recorded interview. Ballad operas ...

Music creators who provide the soundtracks for movements championing social justice today are living the legacy of the American Folk Revival. Frank Hamilton, the youngest member of the music ...

As the civil rights movement gained momentum in the 1960s, folk music gave voice to a new generation longing for equality and justice. "We Shall Overcome" is particularly well-known as a civil rights ...