did any other music genre absorb this genre?
Yes, Ethnic folk music
Ethnic folk music
Ethnic folk music from other countries also had a boom during the American folk revival. 
who is the original singer of you're gonna miss me when i'm gone Over the years, the original has been recorded by many artists, most notably by Charlie Monroe. Lulu and the Lampshades were the first to use the cup game for percussion when performing the song who is this mentioned person? He  was an American country and bluegrass music guitarist. does he have siblings? Yes, Bill Monroe, Bertha, Birch what are his single works? UNANSWERABLE among the above three brothers; was the first one part of any band? Yes,  Blue Grass Boys was he also a guitarist? No, he was a mandolinist. was he into folk music? Yes, Monroe's fortunes began to improve during the American folk music revival, associating his style more with traditional folk music than with the country-and-western genre with which it had previously been identified. when did this revival touch its highest peak? 1959
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 Ironically, the roots of the British Invasion were in American folk, specifically a variant known as skiffle as popularized by Lonnie Donegan; however, most of the British Invasion bands had been extensively influenced by rock and roll by the time their music had reached the United States and bore little resemblance to its folk origins.
 After Bob Dylan began to record with a rocking rhythm section and electric instruments in 1965 (see "Electric Dylan controversy"), many other still-young folk artists followed suit. Meanwhile, bands like The Lovin' Spoonful and the Byrds, whose individual members often had a background in the folk-revival coffee-house scene, were getting recording contracts with folk-tinged music played with a rock-band line-up. Before long, the public appetite for the more acoustic music of the folk revival began to wane. The British Invasion of the mid-1960s helped bring an end to the mainstream popularity of American folk music as a wave of British bands overwhelmed most of the American music scene, including folk. Ironically, the roots of the British Invasion were in American folk, specifically a variant known as skiffle as popularized by Lonnie Donegan; however, most of the British Invasion bands had been extensively influenced by rock and roll by the time their music had reached the United States and bore little resemblance to its folk origins.
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American folk music revival [SEP] Ethnic folk music
Ethnic folk music from other countries also had a boom during the American folk revival. The most successful ethnic performers of the revival were the Greenwich Village folksingers, The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, whom "Billboard Magazine" listed as the eleventh best-selling folk musicians in the United States. The group, which consisted of Paddy Clancy, Tom Clancy, Liam Clancy, and Tommy Makem, predominantly sang English-language, Irish folk songs, as well as an occasional song in Irish Gaelic. Paddy Clancy also started and ran the folk-music label Tradition Records, which produced Odetta's first solo LP and initially brought Carolyn Hester to national prominence.