American Folk Music Revives

With the social climate during the ’60s, music had inevitably become an avenue to discuss and comment on matters. That decade saw folk songs getting picked up again to be mixed with other older genres like Cajun and blues. Singers like Joan Baez and Bob Dylan (in photo), as well as Dave Van Ronk, led that revival.

Songs that came out mirroring the communities at the time were We Shall Overcome (Joan Baez) and Turn! Turn! Turn! (The Byrds). Some of the United States’ issues at the time were civil rights violations and the Vietnam War.