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Folger, Henry Clay 1857-1930 , folk / fōk/ (also folks) • pl. n. 1. inf. people in general: some folk will do anything for money an old folks' home. ∎ a specified group of people:… Folk Song , folk song, music of anonymous composition, transmitted orally. The theory that folk songs were originally group compositions has been modified in rec… 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… Odetta , Folksinger, songwriter, guitarist
The name Odetta is probably unfamiliar to most people in the generation raised on MTV, yet she is one of the pillar… Pete Seeger , Seeger, Pete
Singer, songwriter, banjo player
The indomitable Pete Seeger has weathered a number of storms to become, at age seventy, the most influe…
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