Michael Cain offers an informal social history that describes Americana as both a musical genre and a movement, showing what it is, where it came from and where it is going.  Meer

Artists have often provided the earliest demonstrations of ethical examination in response to political events. This work explores the relationship between the cultural and political ideologies of the 1960s and the growing folk music movement, with a focus on musicians Phil Ochs, Joan Baez, Peter, Paul and Mary, Carolyn Hester and Bob Dylan.  Meer