60s Folk Revival
tagStarted 1960Peak 1960–1965Last big hit 1968From United States
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60s folk revival is the commercially and culturally explosive center of the revival era: dry acoustic guitars, banjo rolls, earnest harmony singing, and lyrics that made private feeling and public conscience feel equally singable.
History
Centered in Greenwich Village, college campuses, festivals, and the civil-rights and antiwar years, this phase brought folk to pop visibility without fully surrendering its acoustic code.
Defining artists
Essential listening
Sources
- Britannica
- Library of Congress
- Smithsonian Folkways. citeturn10search2turn9search2turn0search16