Listen to these famous songs from the 1960s that shaped music history, featuring timeless classics that capture the energy ...

But Guthrie and his contemporaries were more than folk singers — they were blacklisted radicals, shaping American music while ...

As the civil rights movement gained momentum in the 1960s, folk music gave voice to a new generation longing for equality and justice. "We Shall Overcome" is particularly well-known as a civil rights ...

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 ...

Despite music’s generally timeless nature, there are some 1960s and ‘70s folk songs that sound exactly like the decade from whence they came. From the slight tape distortion on vocal lines to ...

Folk music became popular with youth in the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s. As alcohol-free third spaces, coffeehouses were key to that ...

The voice of an iconic 1960s folk-rock song is dead at age 83 ... A cause of death was not announced. Young was a singer-songwriter and bassist in The Youngbloods, which he co-founded in 1965 ...