Who are some popular folk artists today?
Answer Hi Chad, Having established the reasons for the death of folk music as a creative process within the community, we now have to look at what happened to it in modern times. First there came the collectors. Collecting folk songs and tales has been going on among the learned for centuries – Bishop Percy of Northumberland is among the earliest names we have, but even he was drawing on the work of earlier people both named and unnamed, when he published “Percy’s Reliques” in 1765. In the 19th century Professor Francis James Child published the ten volumes of his seminal work “The English and Scottish Popular Ballads” (now printed in five paired volumes). In the late 19th and early 20th century, Cecil Sharp was very active in rural areas, collecting from an increasingly small number of song carriers who still survived in the community. The collectors were mostly doing their thing as an academic exercise. What came after World War Two, however, was largely political in nature. This is
