For a brief period from the late 1950s to the mid-1960s, folk music
captured a mass audience in the United States, as college students
and others swarmed to concerts by the likes of Peter, Paul &
Mary, Joan Baez, and Bob Dylan. In this comprehensive study, Ronald
D. Cohen reconstructs the history of this singular cultural moment,
tracing its origins to the early decades of the twentieth century.
Drawing on scores of interviews and numerous manuscript
collections, as well as his own extensive files, Cohen shows how a
broad range of traditions -- from hillbilly, gospel, blues, and sea
shanties to cowboy, ethnic, and political protest music -- all
contributed to the genre known as folk. He documents the crucial
work of John Lomax and other collectors who, with the assistance of
recording companies, preserved and distributed folk music in the
1920s. During the 1930s and 1940s, the emergence of left-wing
politics and the rise of the commercial music marketplace helped to
stimulate wider interest in folk music. Stars emerged, such as
Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly, Pete Seeger, Burl Ives, and Josh White.
With the success of the Weavers and the Kingston Trio in the 1950s,
the stage was set for the full-blown "folk revival" of the early
1960s.
Centered in New York's Greenwich Village and sustained by a
flourishing record industry, the revival spread to college campuses
and communities across the country. It included a wide array of
performers and a supporting cast of journalists, club owners,
record company executives, political activists, managers, and
organizers. By 1965 the boom had passed its peak, as rock and roll
came to dominate the marketplace, but the folk revival left an
enduringmusical legacy in American culture.
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