Folk/Protest

Question 1

30s style

Answer 1

• lyrics are simple, repetitive, meaningful
• simple chords and consistent repetition
• not many dynamics
• consistent tempo
• singer with guitar
• songs passed down through oral tradition

Question 2

30s-50s political events

Answer 2

• Great Depression
• WWII
• civil rights movement
• Vietnam war

Question 3

30s-50s notable composers

Answer 3

• woody Guthrie

- Pete Seeger

Question 4

60s - style

Answer 4

• very lyric focused

- someone singing and playing guitar

Question 5

60s - topics

Answer 5

• Vietnam war
• civil rights movement
• labour conditions
• social unrest
• setting poetry to music

Question 6

Folk revival

Answer 6

• end of 50s-1965
• reaction to Red Scare
• place for youth counterculture/politically aware youth

Question 7

Kingston trio

Answer 7

• started folk revival
• defined pop-folk
• Tom Dooley

Question 8

Pete Seeger

Answer 8

-organized Newport Folk Festival (very popular)

Question 9

-Joan Baez

Answer 9

• sang protest songs everywhere

- made many musicians popular

Question 10

Peter, Paul, and Mary

Answer 10

• most popular folk group

- made many artists famous with covers

Question 11

Bob Dylan

Answer 11

• most influential musician of 60s
• made folk protest rock protest
• blowin’ in the wind

Question 12

Impact of blowin in the wind

Answer 12

• asking questions instead of statements
• anthem of folk protest movement
• made bob Dylan famous

Question 13

Joni Mitchell

Answer 13

• interesting harmonies

- folk breakthrough at end of 60s

Question 14

Rock protest

Answer 14

• started with bob Dylan
• like a rolling stone at Newport 1965
• end of 60s: rock music replaces folk music as protest music hub

Question 15

90s - style

Answer 15

• hard rock protest bands
• drifting away from folk sound
• more crude/uncensored/emo/raw lyrics
• more instrumentation (thicker)

Question 16

Topics - 90s

Answer 16

• third-wave feminist + riot grrrl movements
• 9/11
• Iraq wars and president Bush
• black lives matter + police violence

Question 17

Rage against the machine

Answer 17

-popular social commentary band

Question 18

And DiFranco

Answer 18

• forefront of feminist movement

- lost woman song tackles abortion

Question 19

Green Day

Answer 19

-anti-bush songs in American Idiot (2004)

Question 20

Neil Young

Answer 20

• lets impeach the president goes back to folk style
• instruments indicate rock style
• repetitive and easy to get a sense of melody
• anti-bush

Question 21

70s

Answer 21

• Simon and Garfunkel
• James Taylor
• brought folk music to a wider audience with huge record sales

Question 22

General timbre

Answer 22

• acoustic guitars
• banjos
• fiddles
• harmonicas