American folk music revival

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cultural movement music movement

The American folk music revival was a mid-20th-century cultural movement that popularized traditional and socially conscious folk music, profoundly influencing popular music and political protest in the United States.

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Label	Occurrences
American folk music revival canonical	21
American folk revival	9
American folk revival (contemporary)	1

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This entity first appeared as the object of triple T150355 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.

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Target entity: American folk music revival
Context triple: [Bob Dylan, movement, American folk music revival]

A. Native American Renaissance
The Native American Renaissance was a late 20th-century literary movement marked by a surge of works by Indigenous authors in the United States that foregrounded Native histories, cultures, and identities within contemporary American literature.
B. Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was a flourishing African American cultural, artistic, and intellectual movement centered in Harlem, New York, during the 1920s and early 1930s.
C. Federal Music Project
The Federal Music Project was a New Deal initiative that employed musicians and supported orchestras, concerts, and music education across the United States during the Great Depression.
D. American Renaissance
American Renaissance refers to the mid-19th-century flourishing of American literature and arts, marked by figures like Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, and Whitman, who helped define a distinct national cultural identity.
E. American Romantic nationalism
American Romantic nationalism was a 19th-century cultural and artistic movement in the United States that celebrated the nation’s revolutionary past, heroic leaders, and unique landscape to foster a distinct American identity.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

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Target entity: American folk music revival
Target entity description: The American folk music revival was a mid-20th-century cultural movement that popularized traditional and socially conscious folk music, profoundly influencing popular music and political protest in the United States.

A. Native American Renaissance
The Native American Renaissance was a late 20th-century literary movement marked by a surge of works by Indigenous authors in the United States that foregrounded Native histories, cultures, and identities within contemporary American literature.
B. Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was a flourishing African American cultural, artistic, and intellectual movement centered in Harlem, New York, during the 1920s and early 1930s.
C. Federal Music Project
The Federal Music Project was a New Deal initiative that employed musicians and supported orchestras, concerts, and music education across the United States during the Great Depression.
D. American Renaissance
American Renaissance refers to the mid-19th-century flourishing of American literature and arts, marked by figures like Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, and Whitman, who helped define a distinct national cultural identity.
E. American Romantic nationalism
American Romantic nationalism was a 19th-century cultural and artistic movement in the United States that celebrated the nation’s revolutionary past, heroic leaders, and unique landscape to foster a distinct American identity.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (93)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	cultural movement ⓘ music movement ⓘ
aim	popularization of traditional folk music ⓘ revival of interest in American roots music ⓘ use of music for social change ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	American folk music revival ⓘ surface form: American folk revival folk revival ⓘ
associatedWith	New Left ⓘ surface form: American left-wing politics Cambridge, Massachusetts ⓘ Greenwich Village Historic District ⓘ surface form: Greenwich Village San Francisco Bay Area ⓘ anti–Vietnam War movement ⓘ American civil rights movement ⓘ surface form: civil rights movement labor movement ⓘ peace movement ⓘ
characteristic	audience sing-alongs ⓘ coffeehouse performances ⓘ college campus concerts ⓘ emphasis on traditional songs ⓘ political protest themes ⓘ socially conscious lyrics ⓘ use of acoustic instruments ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
endTime	early 1970s ⓘ late 1960s ⓘ
genre	folk music ⓘ
hasNotableEvent	Monterey Folk Festival ⓘ Newport Folk Festival ⓘ Philadelphia ⓘ surface form: Philadelphia Folk Festival University hootenannies ⓘ
hasNotableFigure	Bob Dylan ⓘ Buffy Sainte-Marie ⓘ Doc Watson ⓘ Harry Belafonte ⓘ Hootenanny television show ⓘ Ian and Sylvia ⓘ Joan Baez ⓘ Judy Collins ⓘ Lead Belly ⓘ Malvina Reynolds ⓘ Odetta ⓘ Pete Seeger ⓘ Peter, Paul and Mary ⓘ Phil Ochs ⓘ Ramblin' Jack Elliott ⓘ Richie Havens ⓘ The Clancy Brothers ⓘ The Kingston Trio ⓘ The New Lost City Ramblers ⓘ The Weavers ⓘ Tom Paxton ⓘ Woody Guthrie ⓘ
hasPart	Cambridge folk scene ⓘ Greenwich Village Historic District ⓘ surface form: Greenwich Village folk scene San Francisco Bay Area folk scene ⓘ college campus folk scene ⓘ urban folk revival ⓘ
historicalContext	Cold War ⓘ surface form: Cold War era United States McCarthyism ⓘ postwar prosperity in the United States ⓘ rise of youth culture in the 1960s ⓘ
influenced	1960s popular music in the United States ⓘ American political protest culture ⓘ American rock music ⓘ anti–Vietnam War protest music ⓘ civil rights movement music ⓘ contemporary folk music ⓘ country rock ⓘ folk rock ⓘ protest music of the 1960s ⓘ singer-songwriter movement ⓘ
influencedBy	African American folk traditions ⓘ Anglo-American traditional music ⓘ Appalachian music ⓘ Great Depression protest music ⓘ Popular Front culture ⓘ World War II era folk music ⓘ blues ⓘ labor movement songs ⓘ left-wing politics in the United States ⓘ
mediaFormat	LP records ⓘ live performance ⓘ radio programs ⓘ television programs ⓘ
notableWork	Blowin' in the Wind ⓘ Goodnight Irene ⓘ If I Had a Hammer ⓘ This Land Is Your Land ⓘ Tom Dooley ⓘ We Shall Overcome ⓘ Where Have All the Flowers Gone? ⓘ
startTime	1950s ⓘ late 1940s ⓘ

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Referenced by (31)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Bob Dylan → movement → American folk music revival ⓘ

American folk music revival → alsoKnownAs → American folk music revival ⓘ

this entity surface form: American folk revival

Woody Guthrie → movement → American folk music revival ⓘ

Phil Ochs → movement → American folk music revival ⓘ

Ramblin' → genre → American folk music revival ⓘ

this entity surface form: American folk revival

Appalachian music → influenced → American folk music revival ⓘ

this entity surface form: American folk revival

Pete Seeger → movement → American folk music revival ⓘ

Monterey Folk Festival → partOf → American folk music revival ⓘ

Lead Belly → movement → American folk music revival ⓘ

The New Lost City Ramblers → associatedMovement → American folk music revival ⓘ

Hootenanny television show → contributedTo → American folk music revival ⓘ

subject surface form: Hootenanny

Where Have All the Flowers Gone? → associatedMovement → American folk music revival ⓘ

Tom Dooley → associatedWith → American folk music revival ⓘ

this entity surface form: American folk revival

Dave Van Ronk → movement → American folk music revival ⓘ

Ramblin' Jack Elliott → movement → American folk music revival ⓘ

Mimi Fariña → movement → American folk music revival ⓘ

Clearwater Festival → associatedWith → American folk music revival ⓘ

Odetta → movement → American folk music revival ⓘ

Richard Buckner (singer-songwriter) → artisticMovement → American folk music revival ⓘ

subject surface form: Richard Buckner

this entity surface form: American folk revival (contemporary)

Old Dan Tucker → usedIn → American folk music revival ⓘ

this entity surface form: American folk revival

Pay Me My Money Down → popularizedIn → American folk music revival ⓘ

this entity surface form: American folk revival

Woody → movement → American folk music revival ⓘ

subject surface form: Woody Guthrie

Pastures of Plenty → associatedWithMovement → American folk music revival ⓘ

Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos) → movement → American folk music revival ⓘ

So Long, It’s Been Good to Know Yuh → associatedWith → American folk music revival ⓘ

this entity surface form: American folk revival

Cisco Houston → movement → American folk music revival ⓘ

Peter Yarrow → movement → American folk music revival ⓘ

Alan Lomax → movement → American folk music revival ⓘ

Moses Asch → influenced → American folk music revival ⓘ

Love Me, I'm a Liberal → movement → American folk music revival ⓘ

this entity surface form: American folk revival

Power and the Glory → associatedWith → American folk music revival ⓘ

this entity surface form: American folk revival

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