A number of instruments played by famous folk artists, along with those of less-known and unknown artists, are housed at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. National Museum of ...
The great folksong revival of the 1940s through 1960s made rural white and African American artists and their music favorites of audiences everywhere. While key figures associated with the American ...
"American" music includes much more than the western classical music ... Cramer and Grace Cramer Small, pioneers, folk singers, folk song collectors. Includes tape recorded interview. Ballad operas ...
Most folk music includes singing and musical instruments. It is music created ... For example there's English folk music, Scottish folk music, American folk music, Russian folk music and so ...
Sam Amidon mines the ‘intensity & strangeness’ of tradition to make music uniquely his own Sam ... mostly known for recasting traditional American folk songs into vibrant contemporary soundscapes.