By 1941 Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger and the Almanac Singers were part of the new generation of folksingers. What made their approach to music significantly different from from their predecessors was that: They embraced Tin Pan Alley songs as the foundation of their music They approached folk music as a living force in the present rather than just music coming from the past. They were the first African-American folk musicians to gain national exposure on radio. All of the above