MUSI 401 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Dalton Trumbo, Folk Music, English Folk Dance And Song Society
Document Summary
Music 405: study guide for chapter 11 and urban folk revival lectures. Radio, recordings, and publications of folk music and recordings helped to preserve american music. Radio programs allowed people all over the usa to hear folk music; books about folk music and publications of written music (often anthologies) also helped disseminate music. Be able to describe the work of francis james child, cecil sharp, and john and alan lomax. Urban folk revival: was centered in new york city and primarily consisted of anglo- However, some songs from the african american tradition, including. Musicians performed old folk songs and also wrote new songs that reflected what. Folk singing groups were also popular and some of the most important were the. Weavers, peter, paul and mary, and the kingston trio. Popularity of folk music on college campuses in mid-1950s 1960s. Folk music was easy to learn, did not have to buy expensive equipment to perform folk music.
