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Renowned Folk Singer Odetta Dies at 77

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2008-12-04 09:22:49 by WMCNewsDept. in World Music Central
Odetta, one of the most respected in American folk music died Tuesday, December 2, 2008, of heart disease. Odetta was born on New Year's Eve in 1930 as the United States of America entered the second year of the Great Depression, segregation and disfranchisement remained in place, and the droughts of the Dust Bowl forced poor families off the...
 
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Folk Singer, Civil Rights Activist Odetta Dead at 77

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2008-12-03 20:37:00 by Bob Marovich in The Black Gospel Blog
Odetta (Holmes) Gordon, known to the world as simply "Odetta," died of a heart attack in New York yesterday, December 2. She was 77 years old Odetta sang folk songs, ballads, blues, Civil Rights anthems, spirituals, showtunes, gospel...really just about any style of music was fodder for her straightforward delivery. Her booming contralto could...
 
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Folk Legend Odetta Dies At 77

2008-12-04 09:00:15 by admin in Rock Opinions
 
Odetta, the folk singer with the powerful voice who moved audiences and influenced fellow musicians for a half-century, has died. She was 77. Odetta died Tuesday (Dec. 2) of heart disease at New Yorks Lenox Hill Hospital, said her manager of 12 years, Doug Yeager
 
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Subgenre Coverfolk: Freak Folk (Devandra Banhart, Joanna Newsom, Animal Collective, Vetiver)

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2008-05-28 09:20:00 by boyhowdy in Cover Lay Down
In a MySpace age of hypenated multiple genre designation, the term folk is increasingly used by artists and promoters as a call to a specific approach to musicmaking usually characterized by acoustic instrumentation, and/or a sort of lo-fi confessional sensibility If we were cynics, we might suspect that the term is used primarily not to...
 
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Prog Folk

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2007-12-01 22:28:00 by nasti in Progressive Rock
In the wake of the 60s, a Folk revival started on both sides of the Atlantic, and got quickly linked with a protest movement, not always, but often linked to more left-wing tendencies, which did not sit well with the authorities. BOB DYLAN, JOAN BAEZ, WOODY GUTHRIE, JOHN DENVER, BUFFY STE-MARIE, but also the FARINA couple Richard and Mimi for...
 
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Covered In Folk: Classical Music (Bela Fleck, Chris Thile, David Wilcox, Brooks Williams, etc.)

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2008-03-26 00:05:00 by boyhowdy in Cover Lay Down
Most people think of modern folk music as inherently coupled with the singer-songwriter movement. And it is true that, once upon a time, those who would grow up to become the folk troubadors of their own tomorrows learned their songs the traditional way, at the knees of their elders, that they, too, might pass old songs on to a new generation,...
 
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Covered In Folk: Classical Music (Bela Fleck, Chris Thile, David Wilcox, Brooks Williams, etc.)

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2008-03-26 07:05:00 by boyhowdy in Cover Lay Down
Most people think of modern folk music as inherently coupled with the singer-songwriter movement. And it is true that, once upon a time, those who would grow up to become the folk troubadors of their own tomorrows learned their songs the traditional way, at the knees of their elders, that they, too, might pass old songs on to a new generation,...
 
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WOMEX 2008 Educational Institution Award Goes to Folk Music Department of the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki

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2008-07-31 19:19:02 by WMCNewsDept. in World Music Central
Berlin, Germany - WOMEX announced today the winner of the WOMEX Award for Professional Excellence: the Folk Music Department of the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland. " Without the Folk department of the Sibelius Academy, there would be nothing like the folk scene there is in Finland. It's amazing the way it has allowed so many flowers to...
 
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Covered in Folk: David Bowie (Dar Williams, The Gourds, M. Ward, Natalie Merchant and more!)

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2007-12-01 21:52:00 by boyhowdy in Cover Lay Down
The recent penchant towards folk interpretations of songs from the popworld is really nothing new. After all, though modern folk music has turned its eye towards confessional songwriting and urban poetry, and quite often away from its agrarian roots, traditionally, folk music is not so much about the rural as it is populated by the music of the...
 
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