Folk Music
The late 1940s and the early 1950s saw the beginning of popular folk music with groups like The Weavers. The Kingston Trio, Pete Seeger, Woodie Guthrie, Odetta, and several other performers were instrumental in launching the folk music revival of the 1950s and 1960s.
Read more about this topic: Music History Of The United States (1940s And 50s)
Famous quotes containing the words folk and/or music:
“the yonge sonne
Hath in the Ram his halfe cours yronne,
And smale foweles maken melodye,
That slepen al the nyght with open eye—
So priketh hem nature in hir corages—
Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages,”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)
“If you really believe music is dangerous, you should let it go in one ear and out the other.”
—José Bergamín (1895–1983)