Folk Music: The Basics

Ronald Cohen is Emeritus Professor of History at Professor of History at Indiana University Northwest. He is the author of several books on traditional music, including Rainbow Quest: The Folk Music Revival and AmericanSociety, 1940-1970 (Univ. of Massachusetts Press, 2002), and the editor of Alan Lomax: Selected Writings,1934-1997 (Routledge, 2003).

• Chapter 1: Folk music in the British Isles and the U.S. in the 19th centuryChapter 2: This chapter will discuss the advent of collecting folk music in the 19th century and into the 20th century, with some reference to similar collecting in Europe.Chapter. 3: This chapter will cover the spread of folk festivals, beginning in the late 19th century and escalating by the 1930s.Chapter 4: The development of commercial folk music from the 1940s--1960sChapter 5: The complex story of folk music since the 1960sBibliography, discography, videography