Harry Smith’s 1952 Anthology of American Folk Music ... war blues and helped spawn the Folk Blues revival of the 1960s; both Bob Dylan and Joan Baez covered songs included on the Anthology.

The Smithsonian's collections and archives are a rich source of information on American folk music and its many genres. Smithsonian Folkways is home to a significant collection of folk music ...

Many of the songs that people marched to in the '60s have retained their relevance, with people singing "We Shall Overcome" in the streets as recently as 2020. And people are still adding new songs to ...

this song is referential to an entire genre: Appalachian folk. To round out the reference, the band adopted a folkier sound than they usually allow. Much like Croce’s entry on this list ...

"American" music includes much more than the western classical music that has traditionally dominated music study in the United States. The AMRC is working to reflect that diversity in our collections ...

Episode 2 takes the story of American folk music from the 1930s through the 1950s. The list below includes songs especially filmed for the documentary and commercially available recorded music.

Lomax’s love for American music inspired his son Alan Lomax, who dropped out of Harvard at the age of 17 and joined his father in collecting songs. Together, the Lomaxes travelled to prisons, museums, ...