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 ...

We take a look at four musical superstars of the 1960s who helped launch the careers of other future stars in the industry.

The story of how a new generation of Japanese musicians found a voice through an unlikely blend of Western folk and Japanese lyricism.

Smartlap, which blends element of pop, chanson and folk music with sentimental lyrics about everyday life, became popular in the 1960s. “I saw the beauty in it,” Straat said, adding that it ...

Hear the final episode in our two-part series celebrating the life and music of Barbara Dane, a legendary, folk, blues, and ...

Timothée Chalamet stars as Bob Dylan, who arrived in New York in the early 1960s and became a folk music star, in the biopic "A Complete Unknown." ...