Robert Elms Folk (born March 5, 1949) is an American film and television composer and conductor who has written over 80 film and television scores, as...
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folk in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Folk or Folks may refer to: Nation People Folklore Folk art Folk dance Folk hero Folk horror Folk music Folk...
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Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk...
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Robert "Bob" Louis "Luigi" Folk (September 30, 1925, Cleveland, Ohio – June 4, 2018) was an American geologist and petrologist, specializing in sedimentology...
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Robert E. Lee Folkes (June 20, 1922 – January 5, 1945) was an African American man who was convicted and executed in 1945 for the murder of Martha James...
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Folklore (redirect from Folk Culture)
customary lore, taking actions for folk beliefs, and the forms and rituals of celebrations such as Christmas, weddings, folk dances, and initiation rites....
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In China, folk Protestantism had its origins with the Taiping Rebellion. Chinese folk religion, folk Christianity, folk Hinduism, and folk Islam are examples...
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Folk rock is a fusion genre of rock music with heavy influences from pop, English and American folk music. It typically combines elements of folk and...
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Neofolk (redirect from Apocalyptic folk music)
Neofolk, also known as apocalyptic folk, is a form of music blending elements of folk and industrial music, which emerged in punk rock circles in the 1980s...
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The Folklore Society (redirect from Folk-Lore Society)
Thoms, the editor of Notes and Queries who had first introduced the term folk-lore, seems to have been instrumental in the formation of the society: as...
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latest example of "folk horror"—think Robert Eggers' The Witch or Ari Aster's Midsommar. But Southeast Asian horror has always been folk horror. It's our...
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Folk art covers all forms of visual art made in the context of folk culture. Definitions vary, but generally the objects have practical utility of some...
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Robert Sarazin Blake is an American singer-songwriter hailing from Bellingham, Washington. Blake is generally considered a folk musician, though his music...
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Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (category Films scored by Robert Folk)
Ventura: When Nature Calls is a 1995 soundtrack on this film by composer Robert Folk. "Africa (What Made You So Strong)" - 3:28 (Johnny Clegg and Savuka)...
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hiring composer Robert Folk to write a few new pieces of score that would give the action greater heft. Despite his contributions, Folk ultimately went...
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In folkloristics, folk belief or folk-belief is a broad genre of folklore that is often expressed in narratives, customs, rituals, foodways, proverbs...
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Folk saints are dead people or other spiritually powerful entities (such as indigenous spirits) venerated as saints, but not officially canonized. Since...
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best known for his role as Ben Bruckner on the Showtime series Queer as Folk. At age ten, Gant began acting in television commercials in Florida and became...
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The Folk Implosion is an American band founded in the early 1990s by Lou Barlow and John Davis. It was initially a side-project started by Barlow to explore...
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What Are Little Boys Made Of? (category Robert Southey)
19th century. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 821. The author of the rhyme is uncertain, but may be English poet Robert Southey (1774–1843). Here...
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Contemporary folk music refers to a wide variety of genres that emerged in the mid-20th century and afterwards which were associated with traditional folk music...
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A Troll in Central Park (category Films scored by Robert Folk)
The music for A Troll in Central Park was composed and conducted by Robert Folk, who previously provided the soundtrack for Rock-a-Doodle (1991), and...
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Eliza Gilkyson (category American folk singers)
author Robert Jensen. Gilkyson is a two-time Grammy Award nominee, receiving a nomination for Best Contemporary Folk Album in 2004 and Best Folk Album...
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Country blues (redirect from Folk blues)
Country blues (also folk blues, rural blues, backwoods blues, or downhome blues) is one of the earliest forms of blues music. The mainly solo vocal with...
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Queer as Folk is a 1999 British television series that chronicles the lives of three gay men living in Manchester's gay village around Canal Street. Initially...
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Traditional medicine (redirect from Folk medicine)
indigenous medicine or folk medicine) comprises medical aspects of traditional knowledge that developed over generations within the folk beliefs of various...
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Folk memory, also known as folklore or myths, refers to past events that have been passed orally from generation to generation. The events described by...
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Robert McGregor or MacGregor may refer to: Robert Roy MacGregor (1671–1734), Scottish folk hero and outlaw Robert MacGregor (engineer) (1873–1956), British...
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British folk rock is a form of folk rock which developed in the United Kingdom from the mid 1960s, and was at its most significant in the 1970s. Though...
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Poor Folk (Russian: Бедные люди, Bednye lyudi), sometimes translated as Poor People, is the first novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky, written over the span of...
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