Lead Belly is another important figure in the early stages of folk. You might recognize one of his trademark songs " Where Did You Sleep Last Night ." The song dates back to the 1800s, but was sung by ...

Folk singer Peter Yarrow — writer of the timeless ... at the 1963 March on Washington when the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech.

I confess to a bias. I am proudly an intellectual product of the Dust Bowl and Great Depression. One of the more trenchant cartoons of the period was an elephant dancing clumsily among a flock of ...

The Desert KATS from Barmer, Rajasthan enchant with Rajasthani folk melodies. They are brilliant musicians and singers from the Langa community in western Rajasthan. The trio (they are a quartet ...

dress and sing in the tune of Morocco’s most celebrated 20th century women folk singers. It is also the subject of Morocco’s submission for this year’s Academy Awards, “Everybody Loves ...