Folk songs have a particular place in the world. Unlike many other genres, folk songs are meant to be meditated on. Listeners are meant to chew on the lyrics to gain some understanding of the world ...

Woody Guthrie changed folk music forever on this day in 1940. Woody Guthrie wrote "This Land is Your Land" in 1940 as a response to "God Bless America." The song contrasts American ideals with 1940s ...

Singles by Glen Campbell, David Bowie, America, Queen, Led Zeppelin, and other incredibly notable groups and musicians from the decade saturated the music market in 1975. That being the case, the ...

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“Of all nations,” wrote Walt Whitman, “the United States with veins full of poetical stuff most need poets and will doubtless have the greatest and use them the greatest.” This prediction in ...

Two best friends sing a famous American folk song on the street in Nashville. This shy girl is performing for the first time. Surprising One Nation twist in the polls Miley Cyrus drops famous last ...

Long before the Revolutionary War, numerous traditions of Indigenous music flourished in places later incorporated into the United States. European music was heard in the New World from the earliest ...