Use this History of Music and American Folk Music video entitled Folk Music in History to study the role folk music played in American history during the colonial era the Civil War, the Great Depression, the two world wars, the civil rights movement of the 1960's, and the Vietnam War.
Use this K12 educational video to study and understand the role folk music played in American history from the days of Christopher Columbus, through to the colonial era and the the Civil War. Listen to ballads and marching songs written to tell the stories of the day.