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The critical role played by Freedom Songs in the voter registration drives, freedom rides, and lunch counter sit-ins during the Civil Rights Movement of the late 1950s and early '60s in the South gave folk music tremendous new visibility and prestige. [18]
The 2003 film A Mighty Wind is a tribute to (and parody of) the folk-pop musicians of the early 1960s. A six-hour public television series, The Music of America: History Through Musical Traditions, appeared in 2010. PBS series Country Music by Ken Burns, 8 episodes. "Explore the remarkable stories of the people and places behind a true American ...
First recorded in the 1920s, Appalachian musicians were a key influence on the early development of old-time music, country music, bluegrass, and rock n' roll, and were an important part of the American folk music revival of the 1960s.
Cindy (folk song) City of New Orleans (song) Cluck Old Hen; Coal Black Rose; Collide (Howie Day song) The Colorado Trail (song) Come Follow Me (To the Redwood Tree) Comet (song) Cotton Fields; Cotton-Eyed Joe; Count On Me (Bruno Mars song) Crawford's Defeat by the Indians; The Cuckoo (song) Cups (song)
The Harry Smith Anthology, as some call it, was the folk music Bible during the late 1950s and 1960s Greenwich Village folk scene. As the liner notes to the 1997 reissue say, musician Dave van Ronk had earlier commented that "We all knew every word of every song on it, including the ones we hated." [35]
Protest songs in the United States are a tradition that dates back to the early 18th century and have persisted and evolved as an aspect of American culture through the present day. Many American social movements have inspired protest songs spanning a variety of musical genres including but not limited to rap , folk , rock , and pop music.
Folk songs have been recorded since ancient times in China. The term Yuefu was used for a broad range of songs such as ballads, laments, folk songs, love songs, and songs performed at court. [136] China is a vast country, with a multiplicity of linguistic and geographic regions.
Peter Seeger (May 3, 1919 – January 27, 2014) was an American folk singer-songwriter, musician and social activist. He was a fixture on nationwide radio in the 1940s, and had a string of hit records in the early 1950s as a member of The Weavers, notably their recording of Lead Belly's "Goodnight, Irene," which topped the charts for 14 weeks in 1950.