The Byrds
American folk rock band the Byrds (from left): David Crosby, Chris Hillman, Gene Clark, Michael Clarke, and Roger McGuinn.
folk rock
music
folk rock, hybrid musical style that emerged in the United States and Britain in the mid-1960s. 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....
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