Folk Music

Like so many types of music, folk music has undergone considerable changes over the years. The folk music of the early 20th century was not widely popular. It consisted mostly of rural based singers and their songs about everyday life. Pete Seeger was one of the earliest folk singers to achieve success with his innovative blend of spirituality … Keep Reading → and social awareness. Woody Guthrie was another of the early folk singers who helped to bring the style popularity with his focus on social causes and political awareness. Seeger and Guthrie laid the foundation for later artists such as Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, and Joni Mitchell. It is the poetic works of Dylan that many people associate with the revolutionary folk music of the 1960’s. Artists such as Simon and Garfunkel as well as The Mamas & The Papas brought elements of folk music to their contemporary styles to create some of the most popular music of the 1960’s and 1970’s.

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