Folk songs have been recorded since ancient times in China. The term Yuefu was used for a broad range of songs such as ballads, laments, folk songs,...

Folk songs include ballads, lullabies, love songs, mourning songs, dance songs, work songs, ritual songs and many more. A sporting song is a folk song...

Folk Songs is a song cycle by the Italian composer Luciano Berio composed in 1964. It consists of arrangements of folk music from various countries and...

include industrial work songs. Awareness that older kinds of song were being abandoned prompted renewed interest in collecting folk songs during the 1830s and...

G., Lucy E. Broadwood, Frank Kidson. (1915.) "Songs Connected with Customs". Journal of the Folk-Song Society 5(19):204–220, p. 216–220. Highfill, Philip...

vernacular music, or roots music. Many traditional songs have been sung within the same family or folk group for generations, and sometimes trace back to...

Pamulinawen is a popular old Ilocano folk song possibly from the pre-Spanish era. It is about a girl with a hardened heart. who does not need her lover's...

This is a list of songs by their Roud Folk Song Index number; the full catalogue can also be found on the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library website. Some...

the final movement is based on four "Folk Songs from Somerset". It originally had a fourth movement, "Sea Songs", which was played second, but the composer...

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...

its roots in traditional English folk song. It is listed as number 6393 in the Roud Folk Song Index. Like many folk songs, "The House of the Rising Sun"...

songs". Alongside contemporary pop songs, groups like Pochonbo Electronic Ensemble have recorded arrangements of Korean folk songs. The Korean folk song...

Welsh Folk-Songs is the first album by Welsh folk music singer and collector Meredydd Evans, consisting of a cappella renditions of traditional Welsh-language...

of folk dances, people watching the dance sing the songs in the same way that cheerers chant in a game. This is very evident especially in songs where...

Playground songs Ball-bouncing rhymes Rhymes Riddles Ring a Ring o Roses Jump-rope rhymes Stickball Street games A case has been made for considering folk history...

events. Lithuanian folk music includes romantic songs, wedding songs, as well as work songs and archaic war songs. Traditional songs are performed either...

American Folk Songs is a 1948 album by Jo Stafford. The original release featured six songs on three 78-RPM discs. It was released as a long-playing record...

from traditional folk music, it often shares the same English name, performers and venues as traditional folk music; even individual songs may be a blend...

Folk Song 2: Utahime Aishouka (フォーク・ソング2 〜歌姫哀翔歌) is a covers album by Japanese singer Akina Nakamori. Although the original release was scheduled on 22...

Butcher’s Boy" or "The Butcher Boy" (Laws P24, Roud 409) is an American folk song derived from traditional English ballads. Folklorists of the early 20th...

albums of political and traditional songs, writing many songs referring to industrial and working conditions. Folk or folk-rock performers including Steeleye...

the 'KIDS' Soundtrack". www.vice.com. 2 October 2016. Retrieved 2020-09-10. "The Folk Implosion Songs • Top Songs / Chart Singles Discography • Music VF...

Australian Folk Songs (Decca DL 8749) is a 1958 album by Burl Ives. During his visit to Australia in 1952, invited there by the Australian Broadcasting...

traditional blues, spirituals, and songs by Lead Belly. Belafonte had hits with Jamaican calypso material as well as the folk song-like sentimental ballad "Scarlet...

Irish folk music has changed slowly. Most folk songs are less than 200 years old. One measure of its age is the language used. Modern Irish songs are written...

"Cindy" ("Cindy, Cindy") is a popular American folk song. According to John Lomax, the song originated in North Carolina.[citation needed] In the early...

Negro Folk Songs (or Negroe Folksongs Sung by Lead Belly) is an album by Lead Belly, recorded in 1943 and released as an album in early 1946.: 179  By...

(Greek: παραδοσιακή μουσική, "traditional music"; also δημοτικά τραγούδια, "folk songs") includes a variety of Greek styles played by ethnic Greeks in Greece...

Psychedelic folk (sometimes acid folk or freak folk) is a loosely defined form of psychedelia that originated in the 1960s. It retains the largely acoustic...

Gregory Dane Brown (born July 2, 1949) is an American folk singer-songwriter and guitarist from Iowa. Brown was born into a musical family, and his father...