Michael Hurley, the eccentric singer and songwriter who pioneered the "freak-folk" movement and inspired generations 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 ...

(The prize recognized her work “reclaiming African American contributions to folk and country music and bringing to light new connections between music from the past and the present,” the ...

He was such an important figure. You can tell by the way he assembled his box set, the “Anthology of American Folk Music” (1952), he wasn’t looking for ethnographic trends. He was looking ...

The Mountain Strings, Celtic and American Ensembles keep the spirit of folk music alive and well on campus and beyond. The Daily Universe is an educational lab tied to the curriculum of the ...

In this conversation, she discusses her love for the landmark 1952 compilation “Anthology of American Folk Music,” her career documenting and performing traditional folk music in the South and ...

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.

the famed label home to Woody Guthrie and Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music. Hurley expanded his skills beyond singing and playing guitar to also include fiddle and banjo ...

For example there's English folk music, Scottish folk music, American folk music, Russian folk music and so on. Each type of folk music is very different and can teach us things about a particular ...