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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Country-Folk is a studio album by American country music artist Waylon Jennings featuring the Kimberlys on vocals. It was released in 1969 on RCA Victor...
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Folk-Country is the major-label debut album by American country music artist Waylon Jennings, released in 1966 on RCA Victor. It is his first collaboration...
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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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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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cities, as in Northumbria, or the West Country. Cultural interchange and processes of migration mean that English folk music, although in many ways distinctive...
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A folk dance is a dance that reflects the life of the people of a certain country or region. Not all ethnic dances are folk dances. For example, ritual...
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specifically country in nature, usually bordering more on the folk or Celtic genres. Canadian country pop star Shania Twain is the best-selling female country artist...
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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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List of music genres and styles (section Folk)
Irish Country blues Country en Español Country folk Country pop/Cosmopolitan country Country rap/Hick-hop Country rock Cowboy pop Dansband Gulf and Western...
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Progressive folk is a style of contemporary folk that adds new layers of musical and lyrical complexity, often incorporating various ethnic influences...
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success. Folk punk is related to and/or influenced by various styles such as Celtic punk, gypsy punk, anti-folk, and alternative country. Folk punk is...
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A folk costume (also known as regional costume, national costume, traditional clothing, traditional garment or traditional regalia) expresses a national...
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1960s in music (redirect from 1960s folk)
rock, beat, psychedelic rock, blues rock, and folk rock, which had grown in popularity. The country- and folk-influenced style associated with the latter...
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Irish Country blues Country en Español Country folk Country pop/Cosmopolitan country Country rap/Hick-hop Country rock Cowboy pop Dansband Gulf and Western...
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Cowpunk (redirect from Country-punk)
late 1970s and early 1980s. It combines punk rock or new wave with country, folk, and blues in its sound, lyrical subject matter, attitude, and style...
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"Take Me Home, Country Roads", also known simply as "Country Roads", is a song written by Bill Danoff, Taffy Nivert and John Denver. It was released as...
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Southern rock, progressive country, outlaw country, neotraditional country, Texas country, Red Dirt, roots rock, indie folk, folk rock, rockabilly, bluegrass...
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Folklore (redirect from Folk Culture)
Cinderella Country music Cowboy poetry Creation stories Curses English similes Epic poetry Fable Fairy tale Folk belief Folk etymologies Folk metaphors Folk poetry...
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either played country with a rock & roll attitude, or added a country feel to rock, or folk, or bluegrass. There was no formula". The term country-rock had...
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Americana music (category American folk music)
Americana Music Association (AMA) in 2020 as "…the rich threads of country, folk, blues, soul, bluegrass, gospel, and rock in our tapestry." A previous...
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Weyes Blood, and Zella Day. Chemtrails over the Country Club is described as a folk, country folk, and Americana record. According to Del Rey, the album...
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Charles Wesley Godwin (category Country musicians from West Virginia)
Charles Wesley Godwin (born May 18, 1993) is an American country-folk musician from West Virginia. Godwin was born in Morgantown, West Virginia. He played...
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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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Cotton-Eyed Joe (category American folk dances)
(also known as "Cotton-Eye Joe") (Roud 942) is a traditional American country folk song popular at various times throughout the United States and Canada...
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"Best Selling Retail Folk Records". An airplay chart – started 10 December 1949, as "Country & Western Records Most Played By Folk Disk Jockeys". The juke...
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The Be Good Tanyas (category Canadian indie folk groups)
The Be Good Tanyas are a Canadian folk music group formed in Vancouver in 1999. Their influences include folk, country, and bluegrass. The style of music...
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country performers alphabetically by period, with each listing followed by a description of the artists' work. The Carter Family, rural country-folk from...
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Music of the United Kingdom (redirect from Folk music in the United Kingdom)
music and traditional folk music, using instruments from England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Wales. Each of the four countries of the United Kingdom...
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Native North America, Vol. 1 (redirect from Native North America (Vol. 1): Aboriginal Folk, Rock, And Country 1966–1985)
Native North America, Vol. 1: Aboriginal Folk, Rock, and Country 1966–1985 is a compilation album, released in 2014 on Light in the Attic Records. Compiled...
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