1. From the Beginning: Folksong Collectors and Collections2. The Beginnings of Mass Distribution: Radio, Records and pre-World War Two Artists3. Regional Music Styles: Mountain Music, Ballad Singers, the Blues, Cajun and Other Roots Music Styles4. The Beginnings of Protest Music: The Industrial Workers of the World The Coal Miners, the Cotton Mills, and the Communist and Socialist Agitators5. The Almanac Singers, the Weavers, the Beginnings of Folk-Pop and the Blacklist6. The Folk-Pop Revival, 1959-1964: Harry Belafonte, the Kingston Trio, and Peter, Paul and Mary7. Meanwhile Back in Canada: Canadian Regional Styles and Folksingers8.

The New York Scene: Greenwich Villager and Artists, Record Companies, Managers and Agents9. The Problem of Authenticity: How Pop-Folk Singers Related to, Glossed Over or Ignored Traditional Music10. Beyond the Big Apple: The Coffeehouses, Folk Music Organizations, Folk Instrument Stores in Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia San Francisco, Texas, and the Pacific Northwest11. The Civil Rights Movement and Folk Music. The Invisible or Scarcely Present African-American Folksinger12. Folk Rock and the British Invasion Decimate the Pop-Folk World: Why and How This Happened13. The Seventies: How the Singer-Songwriters evolved from the Folk-Pop Revival And the Women's Music Movement Emerged with the Feminist Movement14. Folk Festivals in the United States and Canada: How They Developed and Evolved in terms of today's "Americana" Genre15.

Instrumentalists: The Development and Expansion of Musical Possibilities from Billy Faier and John Hartford to Bela Fleck and Chris Thile16. Folk Music Business17. Folk Music in Today's Pop Music18. Freak Folk: Joanna Newsom, Sufjan Stevens, Iron and Wine19. Looking Back An Evaluation of the Major Figures in North American Folk Music: "What's Been Did and What's Been Hid"20. What's Next? Speculations About the Future of North American Folk MusicIndex.