CHAMPION OF THE FOLK MUSIC REVIVAL * R.I.P. Irwin Silber

Irwin Silber, a founder and the longtime editor of the folk-music magazine Sing Out!, who was one of the prime movers behind the folk-music revival of the 1950s and 1960s and, on a famous occasion, treated Bob Dylan to a public scolding for abandoning his political songs, died on Wednesday in Oakland, Calif. He was 84.

Read article by William Grimes in The New York Times.

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