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Folk Music and the Protest Music
i think it's interesting to think about the concept of protest as it emerges as an idiom, especially around this moment. There is a growing kind of relationship here between folk music and what was sometimes just call protest music. What's going on back in britain in the first half of the sixties? Well, really, what's happenend with people lite dillan and oaks by ars are theyre extending possibilities of singer song writer model developed byy woodi gutrey. And i'd say it's probably around 19 90 that that shift finally occursit occurs. The idea of folk music as radical music sort of dies at the moment when the concept of Protest