Folk

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Folk

JOURNEY THROUGH 400 FOLK SONGS

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Folk

Folk is the expression of popular music as performed in all regions and each era without the aid of enhanced instruments and media. Styles are as diverse as the underlying local cultures and compositions include both traditional themes and songs by identified authors. North American singer-songwriters are emblematic of the international folk scene of the 1950-70 period. They include Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Simon & Garfunkel, Leonard Cohen, Neil Young and many others.

10 peculiar folk themes from the 60s

When he delivers a song that later becomes popular, the singer-songwriter is just its creator and first performer. He has no control over how others will fix it and the song's later life is quite another story. The secondary fate experienced by each of the ten folk themes below is instructive in this regard:

Folk

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