The most famous musicians they are Bob Dylan and the mama's and the papa 's
The mama's and the papa's are Michelle Phillips, Cass Eliot, Denny Doherty y John Phillips
Music copyright
Folk music was famous in Europe and Latin America from the late 1960s.
Contemporary folk music
The term folk, as well as music folk or he dances folk, is a rather recent term
Is term uses William Thoms used, in 1846, to describe the traditions, customs and superstitions of the
uncultivated classes
It was applied by Johann Gottfried Herder to the popular and national music one century before.
The music folk took characteristics as the following ones:
It was transmitted across the oral tradition
For memorization or other one forms
Recordings or the mass media
But not across books of music
The folk this one related to the national culture.
Historical and personal events, as the Easter, the Christmas, and other important days, as marriages
The music folk has influenced to other more popular kinds,
managing to create subkinds of the music folk
Hundreds of songs exist of before the 19th century, which they do not have a known author. From 1970,
this situation already almost does not repeat itself.
The country music, which descends from traditional American music, though it has evolved