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The American folk music revival was a phenomenon in the United States that began during the 1940s and peaked in popularity in the mid-1960s. Its roots went earlier and performers like Josh White Burl Ives Woody Guthrie Lead Belly Big Bill Broonzy Richard Dyer-Bennett Oscar Brand Jean Ritchie John Jacob Niles Susan Reed Paul Robeson and Cisco Houston had enjoyed a limited general popularity in the 1930s and 1940s.
