Word: folke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Appalachian music may not be big in the marketplace, but old and young devotees keep it alive, witness the second annual "Folk Festival of the Smokies" from Gatlinburg, Tenn...
...music has been generally recognized, there is a return to the basics, a rediscovery of roots. This period of retrenchment is necessary before a new form can take over. It happened about seven years ago, when the initial momentum of R&R died and was temporarily replaced by "folk music," à la early Dylan. Now that the excesses of the Gilded Age of psychedelia have become boring, the same thing is going on, with a revival of Country music. But just as the purist's folk music (Lonnie Johnson; Bukka White, Sleepy John Estes) never quite made...
Upheld Obscenity. Two conservative Republican Senators, Paul Fannin of Arizona and Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, launched their own attacks last week on the liberal maverick who has sat on the high bench for 30 of his 70 years. Fannin noted solemnly that Douglas had written an article on folk singing for Avant Garde magazine after the Supreme Court upheld an obscenity conviction against its publisher, Ralph Ginzburg. Douglas, who collected only $350 for the piece, was one of four dissenters to the decision. Declared Thurmond: "Justice Douglas is the next one who must...
...performer who has successfully dipped into the Hair repertory is Nina Simone, whose soulful Ain't Got No/ I Got Life for a time was the top pop hit in Britain. Last month, the gospel-oriented Staple Singers came out with a lively version of Aquarius in "soul-folk." Peter Duchin, Barbra Streisand, Lester Lanin and Nelson Riddle have all taken Hair to heart. Next, Lawrence Welk...
...that flashy stuff.") Nothing but a minimum of talk and then down to the substance of Johnny Cash and his show: singing songs. One regular singing session that Cash conceived and is particularly proud of: "Ride This Train," a wandering medley of folk songs and film clips through times and places in American history...