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5 days ago · Explore the world of folk and acoustic music with BBC Sounds. Listen to live shows, podcasts and mixes from various hosts and artists, featuring traditional and contemporary folk songs from around the world.
6 days ago · February 19, 2024 • The folk music ceremony takes place Wednesday, Feb. 21, in Kansas City. Maggie Rogers' new song, "Don't Forget Me," is a folksy, yet fierce singalong.
May 23, 2024 · 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 of Irish Music (1905), W. H. Grattan Flood wrote that, in Gaelic Ireland, there were at least ten instruments in general use.
May 18, 2024 · Ballad, short narrative folk song, whose distinctive style crystallized in Europe in the late Middle Ages and persists to the present day in communities where literacy, urban contacts, and mass media have little affected the habit of folk singing. The term ballad is also applied to any narrative.
May 27, 2024 · blues, secular folk music created by African Americans in the early 20th century, originally in the South. The simple but expressive forms of the blues became by the 1960s one of the most important influences on the development of popular music —namely, jazz, rhythm and blues, rock, and country music —throughout the United States. Form.
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- The blues is a form of secular folk music created by African Americans in the early 20th century, originally in the South. Although instrumental ac...
- In the 19th century the English phrase blue devils referred to the upsetting hallucinations brought on by severe alcohol withdrawal. This was later...
- The origins of the blues are poorly documented, but it is believed that after the American Civil War (1861–65), formerly enslaved African Americans...
- In the early 20th century the blues (among several other popular genres of music) was considered seductive and destructive by parents and clergy wh...
- The blues has a distinct melancholic and somber tone, which is achieved through vocal techniques such as melisma, rhythmic techniques such as synco...
May 17, 2024 · Dive into the rich tapestry of global folk music with World Folk Tunes. Discover the stories behind the songs, explore diverse musical traditions, and find your next favorite track among our curated selection of folk music from around the world.
6 days ago · Classic Folk is unique. It mines a rich seam of wonderful folk and roots music and song from around 75 years of recordings. From the great source singers to the legends of folk rock, the travellers to the protesters, the ballads to the blues, from the far north to the deep south and all around the English speaking world, the songs live again.
