(460) FOLK ROCK : A SYNERGY OF FOLK MUSIC and COUNTRY and ROCK AND ROLL

Country music, Folk music, Rock Music... In the mid 1960's music by the Turtles and the Byrds was recognized as something called FOLK ROCK.  Some say Bob Dylan's song "Mr. Tambourine Man," was the song that began the Folk Rock "revolution."

Let's go to the Encyclopedia Brittanica, where we got our definition for HARMONY, and see how the term is officially explained:

BRITANNICA : FOLK ROCK Link! 

The definition begins :  "As the American folk music revival gathered momentum in the 1950s and ’60s, it was inevitable that a high-minded movement that prided itself on the purity of its acoustic instrumentation and its separation from the commercial pop mainstream would be overtaken and transformed by pop music’s rapidly evolving technology. Rock music also was transformed by its intersection with folk. Although rock previously had been perceived and created almost exclusively as entertainment, it now began to take on folk music’s self-conscious seriousness of intent...