But Guthrie and his contemporaries were more than folk singers — they were blacklisted radicals, shaping American music while staring down the Red Scare. In 1960, a young Robert Zimmerman ...

Her first songs were sung by Pete Seeger and the group that evolved into The Weavers, and she has been supplying the folk-singing boom ever since. Some of her work, like Bury Me in My Overalls ...

With primal percussion, hypnotic harmonies and immersive ethno-drama performances, Ukrainian folk group YAGÓDY brings its ...

there weren’t many Black women representing the genre except blues and jazz singers like Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith, along with Elizabeth Cotten who bridged into folk more. This was the album ...