FOLK REVIVAL

FOLK REVIVAL (c. 1958–1965) For a brief period in the late 1950s and early 1960s, folk music was tremendously successful on the pop music charts. Granted, these hits were mostly produced by professional or at least semiprofessional musicians (not the folks themselves), and were often watered-down versions of the true folk styles. Nonetheless, the folk revival had a profound impact on the future direction of pop and country music styles. There has always been a fascination in the city with the…