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Artists in Action

Changing the World One Song at a Time

By Ron Cooke

POLITICAL FOLK

The River of Songs Keeps Flowing

By Jackie Morris

BRINGING IT ALL BACK HOME:

The Meaning of Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize in Literature

By David Nigel Lloyd

The Aging Audience

Solving the Problem of the Aging Folk Audience

By Ron Cooke

Folk Festivals

Summer Means the Music Moves Outside

By Ron Cooke

Mutiny on the Bounty and in the Soul: The Hunted and Haunted of Pitcairn Island

Or the tragic unimportance of a ship's fiddler

By David Nigel Lloyd

NEVENKA- When Marigolds Sing

By Joel Okida

The Singers of Tristan da Cunha

At the Still Point of the Turning World

By David Nigel Lloyd

Race and Education

A Brief History of the Attack on Education in America

By Ron Cooke

Louder Than the Guns

Music for the New War

By Ron Cooke

TUNE HISTORY: CROOKED STOVEPIPE

By Bill Olson

Tracing the Long Journey of “We Shall Overcome”

Originally published by the Library of Congress, February 6, 2014

By Kate Stewart

Discovering Johnny Cash

A Quintessential American Journey

By Ron Cooke

A Still Small Voice 4U 2021 Songwriting Contest Awards

By Ron Cooke

Protest Songs

By Ron Cooke

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