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Song , song. Short vocal comp., acc. or solo. Song is the natural human means of mus. self-expression (as it is for most birds). There are various types of… Folk Song , folk song, music of anonymous composition, transmitted orally. The theory that folk songs were originally group compositions has been modified in rec… Woody Guthrie , Guthrie, Woody
Singer, songwriter, guitarist
“Woodrow Wilson Guthrie was a short, wiry guy VV with a mop of curly hair under a cowboy hat, as I first… Folk Music , Before the twentieth century, a dichotomy prevailed between cultivated music, by educated, formally trained musicians and composers, and folk music,… Lomax, Alan , Alan Lomax
No individual has done as much to catalog and preserve traditional American music as American folklorist Alan Lomax (1915–2002). A folklor… Cecil James Sharp , Sharp, Cecil
Cecil Sharp
British musicologist Cecil Sharp (1859-1924) made an invaluable contribution to the history of folk music in his travels thr…
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