These rock musicians from the 1960s got a taste of fame, and then promptly disappeared. Let's learn more about what happened ...

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 ...

A number of instruments played by famous folk artists, along with those of less-known and unknown artists, are housed at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. National Museum of ...

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.

Sometimes it takes a foreign source to represent your own music back to you… I'm looking forward to this new compilation of groovy American 1960s folk rock recordings, brought to you by a ...

Youngbloods frontman Jesse Colin Young, whose old band was best known for the classic 1960s peace anthem “Get Together,” has died at age 83.

Louis W. Ballard paved the way for a booming generation of artists. But his works have been too little performed and recorded.

and research and teaching materials on American music, folklore, and psalmody. Collegiate song books collected by Walter S. "Wally" Collins (1926-1997), including extensive research materials on the ...

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 ...

The Library of Congress had just release recordings of American folk music, and these recordings captivated Copland and his friends. This was music of the people, and Copland wanted to find a way ...