Pete Seeger could be called the King of the Protest Song, in the words of folk musician Tony Trischka.

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Bhangra music is an ancient form of folk music from the Punjab area of India and Pakistan.

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You can hear the influence of these experiences in his music,a mix of folk,blues, rock and fusion.

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Like his father, Alan Lomax went to work for the Library of Congress, where he directed the Folk Archive.

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In any case,John and Alan Lomax were very dedicated to locating these what they thought of as folk geniuses.

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Today we have the first of two programs about how the Lomax family helped keep American folk music from being lost.

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I'm Barbara Klein. This week on our program, we explore American folk music, the music of the people.

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The Lomaxes went to Washington to examine the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress.

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In nineteen thirty-four, John Lomax became honorary consultant and curator of the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress.

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The Lomaxes found one of these "folk geniuses" at the state prison in Angola, Louisiana,in nineteen thirty-three.

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the thirty-four year old performer continues to combine the sounds of jazz, folk music and the blues.

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That could include people like the Lomaxes who copyrighted a new arrangement of an old folk song.

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When he heard Woody sing, Lomax knew he had found a true singer of American folk music.

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Copland's music included parts of American folk songs and songs popular during the American Civil War.

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Some of his music sounds like feel good folk and some sounds like down home blues.

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He was one of the first promoters to include rock,jazz,blues and folk on the same show.

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This band's mix of jazz,world music, folk and rock is a perfect fit for the festival.

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Chesley Sullenberger "The Ballad of Casey Jones" is a folk song about a train engineer who saved the lives of his passengers in a wreck.

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The band mixes the sounds of psychedelic music with pop, indie rock and "freak folk."

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He used parts of many old traditional American folk songs in his work.

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Later,some members of the group formed the folk singing group called the Weavers.

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Faith Lapidus has more. As a boy,Ben Harper spent a lot of time at his grandparents' record store called The Folk Music Center and Museum in California.

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