Editing Roots revival (section)

==History==
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The [[British folk revival]] was an academic movement to transcribe and record traditional British songs during the late 19th and early 20th century. Pioneers of this movement were the [[Harvard University|Harvard]] professor [[Francis James Child]] (1825–96), compiler of ''[[The English and Scottish Popular Ballads]]'' (1882–92), [[Sabine Baring-Gould]] (1834–1924), [[Frank Kidson]] (1855–1926), [[Lucy Broadwood]] (1858–1939), and [[Anne Gilchrist (collector)|Anne Gilchrist]] (1863–1954).<ref name="Sweers2005">B. Sweers, ''Electric Folk: The Changing Face of English Traditional Music'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), pp. 31–8.</ref> The [[English Folk Dance and Song Society|Folk Song Society]] was founded in 1898 to promote this new endeavour. A major figure in this movement was [[Cecil Sharp]] who was the most influential on the repertoire of subsequent performers and defining the nature of folk song.<ref name="Sweers2005"/> His lectures and other publications attempted to define a musical tradition that was rural in origin, oral in transmission and communal in nature.<ref name="Sweers2005"/>

The [[American folk music revival]], which focused on culture and entertainment, began in the 1930s and 1940s. During the [[Great Depression]], folk music styles were disseminated around the country, as [[Delta blues]], Latino and [[Cajun music]]ians, and itinerant [[honky tonk]] singers spread to cities like Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York City.  The growth of the [[music industry]] in the same period was also important; higher potential profits from music placed pressure on artists, songwriters, and label executives to replicate previous hit songs.  This meant that musical fads, such as Hawaiian [[slack-key guitar]], never died out completely, since a broad range of rhythms, instruments, and vocal stylings were incorporated into disparate popular genres.

The movement became global in the 1960s and 1970s. In most cases, the [[folk music|folk songs]] being revived were not quite extinct, though some had not been played for years or were moribund; such cases include the [[Celtic music|Celtic songs]] of [[Cornwall]] and the [[Isle of Man]], for example. In other cases, such as [[Cameroon]] and the [[Dominican Republic]], no revival was necessary as the music remained common, and was merely popularized and adapted for mainstream audiences at home and abroad.