THe Revival of Folk Music

Slobin Chapter 5

Folk music has evolved from the countryside to mediated music due to internal needs and from external pressures. Folk music started as a use to many kinds of movements like religious, radical, and progressive. These songs types were expressed throughout the world eventually moving from the countryside to the city.

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Lornell Chapter  10

The folk rival describes how folk musicians reverted back to the music tradition always. These musicians come from different regional, racial, and ethnic backgrounds.  In the early 1960’s musicians went through the red roots phase which was a politicized folk song movement. Musicians like Mike Seeger played Appalachian mountain music.  

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