Folk rock songs like Bob Dylan's 1963 Masters of War and A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall articulated the dread caused by the threat of nuclear war.

* 1965 – Bob Dylan goes electric as he plugs in at the Newport Folk Festival, signaling a major change in folk and rock music.

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Category: Folk rock groups

Folk rock is a musical genre combining elements of folk music and rock music.

Dylan's July 25, 1965 appearance at the Newport Folk Festival with an electric backing band is also considered a pivotal moment in the development of folk rock.

Folk rock may lean more toward folk or toward rock in its instrumentation, its playing and vocal style, or its choice of material ; while the original genre draws on music of Europe and North America, there is no clear delineation of which folk cultures music might be included as influences.

He was met with derisive booing and jeering from the festival's purist folk music crowd, but in the years since the incident, Dylan's 1965 Newport Folk Festival appearance has become widely regarded as a pivotal moment in the synthesis of folk and rock.

Folk rock musician Cat Stevens performing in 1976

In Italy many songwriters imported American models, such as Folk beat n. 1 by Francesco Guccini or to Edoardo Bennato, who mixes country, rock and tarantella.

Folk rock roots can be found in two Italian songwriters: Fabrizio De André and Angelo Branduardi.

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Another hit from the 1940s was " Guitar Polka ", which entered Billboard's list as the " Most Played Juke Box Folk Record " for 16 weeks running in 1946.

That summer, they also entered the National Rock / Folk Contest at the New Grange Club in Hull with a set entitled This Machine Kills Music ; a parody of the slogan " this machine kills fascists ".

Bearded Lady entered the National Folk And Rock Contest in 1974 and won the first heat only to come second to Curly ( later to be Q-Tips ) in the finals.

At the 1974 National Folk Festival in Brisbane, Bogle entered another song in a songwriting competition.

Shrine, Folk, and Imperial Shinto again became separate, and Sect Shinto further distanced itself from mainstream Shinto.

The capital was home to the Folk-Song Society and the English Folk Dance Society from the late 19th century, but the most distinctive genre of London music, its many street cries, were not considered folk music by mainstream collectors and were recorded and published by figures such as Andrew White in Old London Street Cries ; and, The Cries of To-day ( 1885 ).

The group's use of the word " queer " in its name and slogan was at first considered shocking, though the reclamation has been called a success, used in relatively mainstream television programs such as Queer Eye and Queer as Folk.

Folk rock can be seen an attempt to broaden the language of mainstream pop by incorporating the more " serious " lyrical approach and political awareness of postwar acoustic folk with the mass-market appeal of pop-rock instrumentation and production.

Folk punk achieved some mainstream success in that decade.

Music festivals held in the Northwest Territories include Folk on the Rocks, typically held in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories in the middle of July and the Great Northern Arts Festival, which is held annually in Inuvik, Northwest Territories to celebrate the culture of the northern peoples of Canada.

Like Mississippi John Hurt, he was welcomed into the music scene of the 1960s and played at the Newport Folk Festival in 1964, the New York Folk Festival in July 1965, and the October 1967 European tour of the American Folk Festival along with Skip James and Bukka White.

The mods and rockers conflict led sociologist Stanley Cohen to develop the term moral panic in his study Folk Devils and Moral Panics, which examined media coverage of the mod and rocker riots in the 1960s.

One key factor in developing the popularity of the music in the UK and across Europe in the early 1960s was the success of the American Folk Blues Festival tours, organised by German promoters Horst Lippmann and Fritz Rau.

Slim first appeared outside the United States in 1960, touring with Willie Dixon, with whom he returned to Europe in 1962 as a featured artist in the first of the series of American Folk Festival concerts organized by Dixon and promoter Willie Dixon that brought many notable blues artists to Europe in the 1960s and 1970s.

Folk singer-songwriters ( τραγουδοποιοί ) first appeared in the 1960s after Dionysis Savvopoulos ' 1966 breakthrough album Fortighó.

However British and American archaeology since the 1960s had been sceptical about prehistoric migration in general, so the idea of " Bell Beaker Folk " lost ground.

Despite this neglect there was an active folk scene in the region, which produced several key artists of the second revival from the 1960s, including Anne Briggs from Nottinghamshire, The Settlers from the West Midlands and from Birmingham one of the most influential groups of the period, the Ian Campbell Folk Group, which numbered among its members later electric folk musicians Dave Swarbrick and Dave Pegg.

In the late 1960s, The Folk Crusaders became famous and the underground music around that time became called fōku.

By the 1960s, radio and television had begun to help disseminate French folk songs, especially after the 1967 foundation of the Centennial Collection of Canadian Folk Songs, including recordings of Quebec performers like Yves Albert and Jacques Labrecque, as well as Acadian Edith Butler.

The concept of the folk devil was introduced by sociologist Stanley Cohen in 1972, in his study Folk Devils and Moral Panics, which analysed media controversies concerning Mods and Rockers in the United Kingdom of the 1960s.

In the last half of the 1960s, Vigneault started to perform outside of Quebec, notably in France, but also elsewhere in Canada, including appearances at the Mariposa Folk Festival and at Massey Hall, in Toronto.

* Jones, Mark-Bristol Folk: a Discographical History of Bristol folk music in the 1960s and 1970s, Bristol Folk Publications 2009

The Newport Folk Festival fell on hard times in the late 1960s, even closing its doors for a number of years beginning in 1971, but was revived in 1985, and has since become one of the major folk music festivals in the United States, alongside the Philadelphia Folk Festival, which began in 1960 and is now the longest continual running music festival in North America, and the Kerrville Folk Festival which began in 1972.

Geritol was often used in the 1960s as a punch line for a joke in sitcoms or in comedy routines ; comic singer Allan Sherman satirized Geritol on his 1962 album My Son, the Folk Singer, singing " Yasha got a bottle of Geritol " to the tune of " Joshua Fought the Battle of Jericho ".

A leading writer on Criminology and Sociology, Cohen is credited with coining the term moral panic in his 1972 study ( Folk Devils and Moral Panics ) of the popular UK media and social reaction to the Mods and Rockers phenomenon of the 1960s.

Shirley Elizabeth Collins MBE ( born 5 July 1935 ) is a British folksinger who was a significant contributor to the English Folk Revival of the 1960s and 1970s.

* Ian Campbell Folk Group, a folk group of the British folk revival of the 1960s

Folk clubs were primarily an urban phenomenon of 1960s and 1970s Great Britain and Ireland, and vital to the second British folk revival, but continue today there and elsewhere.

A third generation Central Ostrobothnian master pelimanni ( Mestaripelimanni ); in the 1960s Konstas band Konsta Jylhä ja Purpuripelimannit became a mainstay of the Kaustinen Folk Music Festival, and iconic both in popular culture, and within the generation of master pelimanni to follow in his footsteps.