Title: Folk music and the new left in the sixties /
Authors: Cain, Michael Scott
Year: 2019
Subjects: Folk music Political aspects United States History; Protest songs United States History and criticism.; Social movements United States History; Nineteen sixties; Nineteen sixties; Protest songs; Social movements; United States
Abstract: "Artists have often provided the earliest demonstrations of conscience and ethical examination in response to political events. The political shifts that took place in the 1960s were addressed by a revival of folk music as an expression of protest, hope and the courage to imagine a better world"--