"This book is partially meant to be a visual companion to Ronald D. Cohen, Rainbow Quest: The Folk Music Revival and American Society, 1940-1970 (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2002) and ...

This year's Gamble Rogers Folk Festival covered all the bases of roots music in honor of the legendary Florida troubadour.

Covers the development of American folk music from African music, English ballads and other sources, the origins of folk instruments and folk influences on gospel, blues, bluegrass, jazz, country ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The story of America can be told through the lyrics of folk music – songs of the Great Depression, the civil rights era, and the ...

Country music’s soul has always been rooted in folk traditions — from heartfelt storytelling to melodies born of shared history. Over time, these roots have blended with other influences, creating a ...

Brian Chartrand’s first encounter with the sounds of Laurel Canyon happened far from the sunny hills of Southern California. Rather, he was growing up in western Massachusetts when his parents brought ...

Library of Congress archivist Joe Hickerson has died at 89. For decades, he worked to preserve America's collection of folk music and served as director of the library's American Folklife Center. Joe ...

To borrow the title of an iconic Townes Van Zandt album, folk music is “a far cry from dead.” Many people view the folk music genre as a thing of the past, antiquated and rendered obsolete. But in ...

Prepare for an eclectic journey through The Old, Weird America. Rani Singh's new documentary film tracks the history of Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music from its initial compilation of ...

The story of America can be told through the lyrics of folk music – songs of the Great Depression, the civil rights era, and the social revolutions of the 1960s. As folk singer Pete Seeger put it in ...