[Ads-l] Antedating of "Folk Rock"

[Shapiro, Fred]

I should have typed "developing in contemporary pop music."

Fred Shapiro

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From: Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu>
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Subject: Antedating of "Folk Rock"

I have discovered the earliest known occurrences of "jazz," "ragtime," and the names of almost every other genre of popular music.  Here's another one:

folk rock (OED 1965 [17 Sept.])

1965 _Billboard_ 12 June 1/1 (ProQuest)  With Bob Dylan as the stimulus and the Byrds as disciples, a wave of folk-rock is developing for contemporary pop music.

Fred Shapiro

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