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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Folk rock is a fusion genre of rock music with heavy influences from pop, English and American folk music. It arose in the United States, Canada, and...
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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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folk music encompasses numerous music genres, variously known as traditional music, traditional folk music, contemporary folk music, vernacular music...
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folk music in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Folk music is a genre of music. Folk music may also refer to: Traditional folk music Contemporary folk...
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The folk music of England is a tradition-based music which has existed since the later medieval period. It is often contrasted with courtly, classical...
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Russian folk music specifically deals with the folk music traditions of the ethnic Russian people. Russian folk music is used as the basic foundation...
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Indian folk music is diverse because of India's enormous cultural and traditional diversity. It is sung in various languages and dialects throughout the...
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Irish traditional music (also known as Irish trad, Irish folk music, and other variants) is a genre of folk music that developed in Ireland. In A History...
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Hungarian folk music (Hungarian: magyar népzene, pronounced [ˈmɒɟɒr ˈneːbzɛnɛ]) includes a broad array of Central European styles, including the recruitment...
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the United Kingdom has been a major music producer, drawing inspiration from church music and traditional folk music, using instruments from England, Scotland...
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Turkish folk music (Turkish: Türk Halk Müziği) is the traditional music of Turkish people living in Turkey influenced by the cultures of Anatolia and...
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The American folk music revival began during the 1940s and peaked in popularity in the mid-1960s. Early folk music performers include Woody Guthrie, Lead...
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folk traditions" or "lowland Christianized folk traditions"; and American Influenced Traditions, including western-influenced art and popular music,...
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Nordic folk music includes a number of traditions of Nordic countries, especially Scandinavian. The Nordic countries are Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark...
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Chinese music theory, or the languages of China. It includes traditional classical forms and indigenous folk music, as well as recorded popular music and...
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nations' folk music see: Albanian folk music Bosnian folk music Bulgarian folk music Croatian folk music Macedonian folk music Montenegrin folk music Serbian...
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Scottish folk music (also Scottish traditional music) is a genre of folk music that uses forms that are identified as part of the Scottish musical tradition...
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AM radio in the United States. Folk-pop developed during the 1960s folk music and folk rock boom. Key example of folk-pop artists include the Kingston...
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celebratory music, were all popular on the island. Okinawan folk music differs from mainland Japanese folk music in several ways. Okinawan folk music is often...
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Mormon folk music is primarily composed of folk music which was sung by Mormon pioneers in present-day Utah from the mid-19th century through the early...
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development of old-time music, country music, bluegrass, and rock n' roll, and were an important part of the American folk music revival of the 1960s. Instruments...
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Alpine folk music (German: Alpenländische Volksmusik; German's Volksmusik means "people's music" or as a Germanic connotative translation, "folk's music")...
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Canadian folk music has a long history, dating from the 16th and 17th centuries, mostly derived from the music of early settlers and much earlier from...
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Australian folk music is the traditional music from the large variety of immigrant cultures and those of the original Australian inhabitants. Celtic,...
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Neofolk (redirect from Apocalyptic folk music)
Neofolk, also known as apocalyptic folk, is a form of experimental music blending elements of folk and industrial music, which emerged in punk rock circles...
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Folk music is one of the major divisions of music, now often divided into traditional folk music and contemporary folk music. There are many styles of...
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Music can be divided into genres in numerous ways, sometimes broadly and with polarity, such as for popular music, as opposed to art music or folk music;...
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A folk instrument is a traditional musical instrument that has remained largely restricted to traditional folk music, and is not usually used in the classical...
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Ukrainian folk music includes a number of varieties of traditional, folkloric, folk-inspired popular music, and folk-inspired European classical music traditions...
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