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Thread #171369 Message #4145190
Posted By: GUEST
23-Jun-22 - 05:18 PM
Thread Name: When was the last folk music revival?
Subject: RE: When was the last folk music revival?
https://www.jstor.org/stable/657909 This article counts a twenty year gap between the revivals of the 30's and 60's. How do you count it? How do you account for the 90's revival. There certainly was a folk revival then, sparked by interest in Dylan and the Dead and artists who inspired them (Doc Watson, Guthrie, Ledbelly...)
There is some talk that the pandemic sparked a new movement. I'm quite interested in the oddities like this statement by Lomax concerning Louis Armstrong and also this kind of pop-folk icon, Tiny Tim. TT played at Monterrey Pop in 1967. He seems to have culled his folk repertoire almost completely from old music hall and Tin Pan Alley tunes (not very folk in '67.)
In the series of songs, he seems to be using these old pop lyrics to make some social statements about contemporary times. He seems to have been overlooked by the folkies. Does he appear on any lists of 1960 folksingers?