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Black Folk Musicians Are Reclaiming the Genre

In returning to a songbook that is decades — if not centuries — old, a new generation of performers is expanding the definition of what their traditional art form can be.

By Adam Bradley and Justin French

Folk Music Race and Ethnicity

This Is Our Music

The folk musicians Dom Flemons, Kara Jackson, Amythyst Kiah and Tray Wellington discuss the complications of being a Black performer working in a genre now commonly associated with whiteness.

By Justin French

Content Type: Personal Profile Documentary Films and Programs Folk Music Joan Baez I Am a Noise (Movie)

What Fuels the ‘Manic Creativity’ of Joan Baez

The 82-year-old singer and subject of a new documentary sleeps in a tree, has come to terms with not being a reader and is more interested in upside down than right side up.

By Kathryn Shattuck

Canada Canadian Broadcasting Corp Folk Music Indigenous People Sainte-Marie, Buffy (1941- )

Buffy Sainte-Marie’s Indigenous Parentage Is Questioned

An investigation by the CBC disputed a key part of Sainte-Marie’s story, saying that a birth certificate shows she was born to a white family in Massachusetts.

By Christopher Kuo