Folk Rock

Folk Rock Folk rock fused the commercial folk tradition of the early 1960s with the rock songcraft and sound best exemplified by the Beatles. Its most notable features included the eclectic blending of strummed electric and acoustic instruments, a rock-steady beat, group harmonies, and poetic—often political with a pronounced antiestablishment message— song lyrics. The genre, which reached its commercial and artistic zenith for a brief period during 1965–1966, was a product of experiments by…