ABSTRACT
Many American Indian peoples continue to live today in rural areas or on reservations, often in very depressed economic conditions, while others, especially during the latter half of the twentieth century, have migrated to large urban areas to find work. Furthermore, the social and critical rhetoric of the time, found in newspapers, music journals, and other publications, began to reveal a European bias that still exists in some quarters today. Folk singers, such as Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, and the Kingston Trio, became not only national singing stars, but also national heroes to a younger generation of idealistic "flower children". Classical music traditions in the United States during the twentieth century also developed in unique ways. Collectors such as Sir Francis James Child and Cecil Sharp (British American ballads and folk materials), Frances Densmore, and Alan and John Lomax contributed greatly to the people understanding of music as human social behavior as well as beautifully organized sound.
