 Pete Seeger at age 88 photographed on 6-16-07 at the Clearwater Festival 2007 by Anthony Pepitone Image by Dxede5x Photo taken by Anthony Pepitone, via Wikimedia Commons. Licensed CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Contemporary Folk GroupContemporary folk music Contemporary folk music Genre of popular music centered around Anglophonic folk revivals Contemporary folk music refers to a wide variety of genres that emerged in the mid-20th century and afterwards which were associated with traditional folk music. Starting in the mid-20th century, a new form of popular folk music evolved from traditional folk music. This process and period is called the (second) folk revival and reached a zenith in the 1960s. The most common name for this new form of music is also "folk music", but is often called "contemporary folk music" or "folk revival music" to make the distinction.[1] The transition was somewhat centered in the United States and is also called the American folk music… (Source: Wikipedia)
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