In the 1950s, 303 researchers travelled through Poland and gathered over 46,000 recordings of folk music. It was one of the largest campaigns of its kind in Poland. It’s 1934. Two young ...

A Complete Unknown documents Bob Dylan’s history in New York, but the singer spent an influential month in Chicago before ...

Lead Belly is another important figure in the early stages of folk. You might recognize one of his trademark songs " Where Did You Sleep Last Night ." The song dates back to the 1800s, but was sung by ...

In 1950, he was named in the infamous Red Channels ... Pete Seeger was a tireless and passionate advocate for the preservation of American folk music. His renditions of classics like “Goodnight ...

I was 21, so you can imagine what that meant to me.” Born in 1935, Seeger grew up in New York, part of American folk music royalty. Her father was a pioneering musicologist. Seeger’s half ...

There were three main musical styles that influenced reggae. This style of Jamaican folk music was popular in the 1950s. Like calypso it is strophic in form and has light-hearted lyrics ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Peter Yarrow, the singer-songwriter best known as one-third of Peter, Paul and Mary, the folk-music trio whose impassioned harmonies transfixed millions as they lifted their ...