The Smithsonian's collections and archives are a rich source of information on American folk music and its many genres. Smithsonian Folkways is home to a significant collection of folk music ...

2. “Going Down To Mississippi” by Phil Ochs Phil Ochs knew his way around political protest songs in the 1960s, the most well-known being the 1965 folk song “Going Down To Mississippi”.

Hiding somewhere between psychedelic rock and folk music, freak folk is an oft-overlooked genre of the 1960s and 1970s that we believe is worth revisiting. Freak folk was certainly a byproduct of ...

But the violinist is known for… Folk legend Joan Baez reflects on a life in music and activism After six decades performing, folk legend Joan Baez is saying farewell to music with a tour this ...

Folk music is traditional music that belongs to a particular culture or group of people. Most folk music includes singing and musical instruments. It is music created by ordinary people within a ...

So, if you are someone who’d like to know more about your culture, here we mention the folk music of different Indian states. The folk music of Baul is a mystical and spiritual form of music ...

But “Tell It To the Wind,” out Friday on Ani DiFranco’s Righteous Babe Records, is the New Orleans singer, songwriter and ...

Music has the incredible power to do that. For University of Delaware senior Alondra Gonzalez, an honors music education major from Bensalem, Pennsylvania, Mexican folk music has been a part of her ...

A fan of folk songs from the Zhuang ethnic group livestreams her performance in a park in Liuzhou, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, on Aug 25. [Photo/Xinhua] NANNING — For thousands of years ...

Yet even at their annual worship conference, there’s room for multiple styles of music to declare the stories of the Bible.

African humanists, atheists, freethinkers, secularists, and other nonreligious individuals and groups are organizing a ...