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 ...

Harry Smith’s 1952 Anthology of American Folk Music is the most important music collection ever issued, introducing Americans in the 60s to Mystical Gods. In 1950 the long-playing album was ...

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 ...

The American folk music legend died Monday at age 94 of natural causes. His wife of 70 years, Toshi, died last year. As with all influential musicians and songwriters, Seeger's music will live on.

For example there's English folk music, Scottish folk music, American folk music, Russian folk music and so on. Each type of folk music is very different and can teach us things about a particular ...

We can now reveal the shortlist for the prestigious Album of the Year Award at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2017. Voting was open from 1900 on Wednesday 8th February until 2359 on Friday 17th February.

In the below list ... Folk Acts That Deserve More Respect. Without these people – and frankly this is just the tip of the iceberg — its possible there may not have been a Dylan or a folk ...

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The soft-spoken, 6-foot-3, pole of a man with a banjo, was a giant in the history of the American fight for social ... off as a dust-covered relic of folk music history, an obstacle to Dylan ...