Urban Folk Music and the Folk Revival, 1950s

Question 1

During the 1950s, some college students reacted against the _ and _ of rock ‘n’ roll?

Answer 1

Superficiality, commercialism

Question 2

They began to listen to and play folk music, which they viewed as the what?

Answer 2

Opposite commercial rock ‘n’ roll

Question 3

The commercial rock ‘n’ roll gave rise to what?

Answer 3

Folk Revival and Urban Folk Music

Question 4

Renewal of interest in older generation of traditional musicians who played old styles of folk music

Answer 4

Folk Revival

Question 5

New music in those styles by a younger generation of college-educated, urban musicians

Answer 5

Urban Folk

Question 6

Their music was mostly acoustic, strongly melodic, and featured what?

Answer 6

Little studio production

Question 7

Their songs were often topical (dealing with current events) and featured what?

Answer 7

Serious lyrics

Question 8

Sometimes explicitly political in nature

Answer 8

Tied to civil rights and anti-war movements

Question 9

Centered where in New York City?

Answer 9

Greenwich Village

Question 10

Why was it a paradox by the the 1960s for urban folk music to become what?

Answer 10

Commercially successful