Weissman considers the folk music revival in various genres, first looking at folk song collectors like John Lomax and Cecil J. Sharp, and protest music before the sixties, including Charles Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Josh White, and the Almanac Singers. He summarizes the folk-pop revival and the music of Pete Seeger, the Weavers, the Kingston Trio, Peter, Paul, and Mary, Simon and Garfunkel, and Laura Nyro. The survey also describes urban revivalists in New York and other cities from 1950-64, the civil rights movement and artists such as Odetta, Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, and Judy Collins. Other genres detailed are folk-rock, country-rock, singer-songwriters, women's music, the blues, bluegrass, gospel, cajun, zydeco, klezmer, and the music of Mexican-Americans and Native Americans. Weissman, formerly of the pop-folk group the Journeymen, is a musician and writer. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)