In “The Sixties between the Microgrooves: Using Folk and Protest Music
to Understand American History, 1963-1973.” Jerome Rodnitzky tries to pinpoint the origin of what is known as “folk” music, and how to go about defining this such genre. Rodnitzky especially focuses on the music created in the sixties and it’s close relation to political and social forces during that era. There has been little disagreement in defining the sixties era as highly historical and controversial. Rodnitsky covers The Civil Rights movement which gave way to many debates and challenged the more traditional ways of