Folk Music and the New Left in the Sixties
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
ISBN-13: 9781476674728
Subjects: Folk music; Protest songs; Social movements; Twentieth century
Description: "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"--