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"folk music" Definitions
  1. the traditional music of a country or community

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The songs themselves are less alien, carrying the distorted echoes of other songs that makes folk music folk music.
To say that folk music is different from whatever we wanna call pop music—it's all folk music in the end.
I can't explain it with folk music because in folk music they only talk about love but here is no love, only war.
Before Beeley teamed up with his wife to transport frozen cryogenics across the country, he made folk music; deeply felt, little heard, folk music.
And it's why folk music continues to connect with people.
I'm just down to play folk music for the people.
But we found Appenzell and its folk music festival endearing.
Even folk music played a key role in Diamond's development.
While folk music was blowing up, soul music was too.
To him, folk music glittered like a mound of gold.
Lots of classical and folk music resides in the public domain.
Throughout the 1960s and 70s, Milanese folk music was hugely popular.
It perfectly combines that beautiful orangey color palette and folk music.
She was often surrounded by forms of folk music growing up.
" Salsburg: "Lomax's focus was hardly specific to rural American folk music.
So somehow the punks in Galicia are very into folk music.
Essays on moonshine, the borscht belt and folk music are included.
Bartok used one during his field research into Hungarian folk music.
He played polkas, jazz, romantic songs, show tunes and folk music.
It is Grieg who gave him a taste for folk music.
"There's complete normality here — there's peace and folk music," he said.
Genuine fans of folk music won't like his mangling of the classics.
His influence continues to permeate through rock, pop and folk music today.
The tradition of folk music tends to lean a little more political.
"America has just got incredible folk music, especially this traditional harmony singing."
You still like animals and reading and folk music and eating steak.
Leo Fender and Les Paul turned the old blues into folk music.
The albums still stand as extreme examples of acid-tinged folk music.
"We had a klezmer band who play Israeli folk music," she said.
He is young, charming and sings vallenato, a type of Colombian folk music.
Segarra got into folk music the traditional way—by hitchhiking across the country.
Folk music both fit the landscape she was traveling through and her lifestyle.
Even prior to the Byrds, our background was folk music and country music.
Fans of traditional British folk music used to find Shirley Collins's voice angelic.
Would you say folk music can transform into pop and reach more people?
A married man, he loved local history and enjoyed rock and folk music.
Stravinsky crossed boundaries — he was embracing folk music from Russia and popular music.
Her first husband, Paul Carter, was deep into England's nascent folk music scene.
El Playón is a clutch of huts and bars blasting out vallenato folk music.
He spoke fluent Zulu and mixed it into his traditional folk music, or 'mbaqanga'.
Woody was part of the fabric of folk music, like Pete Seeger and Odetta.
"We're very inspired by old American country music and new folk music," Mooney said.
Vince Clarke: Actually, I was more interested in folk music when I was younger.
Galician folk music became the music of people against the empire and against oppression.
The dance was driven by a warbling clarinet melody, inspired by Scottish folk music.
The bar showcases many types of folk music, jazz, salsa, cumbia and other genres.
The Georgians learned to sing three-voiced chants from existing polyphonic folk music traditions.
Paul taught Angela to love English folk music, thereby giving her a great gift.
But 10 years later, the folk music group the Kingston Trio picked it up.
Pedro Cameron, 29, who makes folk music as Man of the Minch started it up.
I guess in folk music it's a little more accepted or understood or thought about.
She writes songs as vignettes that are what have, historically, defined country and folk music.
"There's something to what people say about folk music," says Mr. Potts in a recording.
Let's move on to the Monday puzzle with a bit of folk music: Your thoughts?
They become Animal Collective, a group that sit somewhere in-between electronic and folk music.
At certain points in your life have you listened to a lot of folk music?
There's a portrait of Harry Smith, who recorded the Smithsonian American anthology of folk music.
The following year, the foundation launched a program to archive Carpathian Basin folk-music recordings.
Then check out Rabu, a midnight black folk duo makes folk music for Javanese funerals.
Mr. Mulherin often plays with an arid electric guitar tone redolent of lonely folk music.
For a time, he was an editor and writer at the folk-music magazine Caravan.
It reminded me of Irish folk music, but instead of a fiddle, you've got a khaen.
He is known to voters thanks to his popular folk music band and his family ranch.
But "Four Dances Based on American Folk Music" gives us sides of Shawn I'd never seen.
What we play with Sangre is just a small part of what Galician folk music is.
The singer was Laura Muenala, a blind accordionist who has recorded six volumes of folk music.
Saturday's concert had a similarly instructive angle, this time focused on Bartok's appetite for folk music.
He'd also made eight mostly neglected albums of gloomy folk music under the name J. Tillman.
Tappeser was thinking of what it might mean to create a folk music of the Arctic.
The dances led him to folk music, and he was soon collecting books on the subject.
Horse and lamb were served as musicians played traditional folk music, to which government officials danced enthusiastically.
At Holyrood House, there's also a "ceildh," a traditional Scottish celebration with folk music, dancing and storytelling.
And today we have a new generation of classically trained musicians who can also do folk music.
His piece also weaves in traditional Spanish folk music, an homage to the ex-sherry casks used.
Country has a connection to Scotch-Irish and English folk music that is very apparent to me.
His electro-dabke, an "updated" form of traditional Middle Eastern folk music, has drawn a cult following.
Celtic Appalachian Celebration (Saturday) This event, now in its fifth iteration, showcases Irish-influenced American folk music.
A Durham folk music preservationist, Fussell lovingly respects and reinterprets these historic off-the-beaten path numbers.
Other queer parties demand an über-German sound: think folk music, oom-pah-pah, and very bad pop.
One night Danish folk music legend Lars Lilholt played live at the camping area we were staying at.
McGUINN: That was a Woody Guthrie song; we were mixing folk music in there with the country songs.
Friday's program centers on folk music, including works by Stravinsky, Villa-Lobos, Juan Carlos Núñez and Paul Desenne.
MASCOTS Christopher Guest has shown us the absurdities in dog shows, community theater, folk music and movie awards.
Bulgarian folk music played from a sound system while a friendly tabby cat walked up to demand affection.
Sawyer Gebauer is a Wisconsin-born, California-based artist, with a knack for making haunting, minimal folk music.
"It can be considered as the equivalent of folk music here in the United States," Mr. Sahraoui said.
He would say only that he wanted to make something rooted in tap dancing and American folk music.
For a time, he also taught at Chicago's Old Town School of Folk Music, on North Lincoln Avenue.
There are elements of American folk music, early rock 'n' roll, and a heavy helping of acoustic guitar.
James Vincent McMorrow is a singer/songwriter whose first albums fell somewhere on the folk music side of things.
Gohil was at the forefront of modern bhangra, mixing western synth-pop with Punjabi folk music to great effect.
Last year, Mr. Barsky and his wife, Deborah, attended the Mid Winter Ball of the Baltimore Folk Music Society.
The film's rakish, middle-aged hero, Wiktor (Tomasz Kot), is forming a state-sponsored folk-music ensemble in 1949.
Although it has roots in Indonesian folk music, for the past two decades dangdut has become ever more raunchy.
"Folk music," he wittily captioned it, making sure to leave the capital 'M' off music to seem more nonchalant.
The music, mostly for a chorus of female voices, skillfully blends busy counterpoint and evocations of ethnic folk music.
Halfway through the show, she was joined by a band playing jarocho, a style of folk music from Veracruz.
Eve Owen "So Still For You" The English coastline and folk music go together like my anxiety and chocolate.
Mr. Coleman, a pianist, sources his inspiration widely: from Jewish folk music, free jazz and Western minimalism, among others.
U.F.O.F. and Two Hands are beautiful and painful albums, animated by an emotional rawness that's rare in folk music.
In July, however, an appellate court lifted the ban, and the park was once more awash in folk music.
Stacks of CDs and vinyl stretch from wall to wall as smoky folk music warbles loudly from the speakers overhead.
With the right sequence, it recreates "House of the Rising Sun," the folk music classic that's probably about a brothel.
Bernie Sanders talked about his folk music album, his tiny red Chevrolet, his 27-year marriage to his wife Jane.
Folk music, he thinks, endures because people 200 years ago aren't too different, at their core, from people in 2017.
But it was folk music—and artists like Joan Baez, Mike Dillon, and Joni Mitchell—that inspired her to sing.
Mariachi is like folk music for mexicans, but narco-corrido banda is mariachi's bastard step-child with a cocaine problem.
That Galician folk music—rich in political and cultural imagery, and traditional instrumentation—has seeped into Sangre De Muerdago's music.
He started listening to Russian folk music, and to a recording of the "Great Comet" score, trying to play along.
The First, indebted to Bartók, exhibits traces of Argentinean folk music, such as the loping rhythm of the gato dance.
The singer-songwriter John Prine has been playing his distinctive country-folk music on the road for nearly 50 years.
"It was clear this wasn't going to be a regular, earnest folk-music tour," he said in a phone interview.
At 21-years-old, Beau makes you nostalgic for retro folk music and everything that came along with the 70s.
The deafening silence of a man using folk music to try and hook up with someone via a dating app.
Drone has appeared in traditional folk music around the world for centuries, from the tanpura, an Indian instrument, to Scottish bagpipes.
"We specialize in folk music here, and we try and put on as much live music as possible," JP told me.
Labess is a very traditional sounding band, or at least as traditional as any folk music from the '60s and '70s.
She has conservatory bona fides by way of Oberlin but left opera to carve an idiosyncratic, celebrated niche in folk music.
You'll occasionally notice coiled rhythms and minor scales that recall Jewish folk music, but chatter in the patois of contemporary jazz.
The first book they illustrated, the "Fireside Book of Folk Songs" (1947), was a hit, catching the emerging folk-music wave.
In the 1963-64 season, Mr. Weintraub was the talent coordinator for "Hootenanny," a weekly folk music show on ABC-TV.
But, today, New Mexican folk music is regaining its traction, though it remains the least known type of the Hispano music.
Its heavy doses of poetry and folk music recalled the folk revival and beat scene of the 1950s and early '60s.
Today's episode brings a performance from Dom Flemons, a purveyor of old-timey (pre-WWII) folk music rooted in African-American idioms.
It's a sentiment which Traditional Folk music, with its nostalgic songs of virtuous maidens and rolling hills, is a natural fit for.
With their folk music, casual dress, and chill vibe, the Jesus People helped redefine the Sunday morning worship experience across American evangelicalism.
Not the "little boxes on the hillside" of folk-music fame but the crippling confines imposed by limited options and crumbling infrastructure.
His region's traditional folk music, usually featuring an accordion and a violin, had a great deal in common with old Tejano music.
The Stanley Brothers frequently played college campuses, outdoor concert parks and festivals during the folk music revival of the 1950s and '60s.
Noisey caught up with Ursusson to talk about growing up with traditional Galician folk music, and how he navigates this modern world.
He was inspired to start writing, and his horizons were opened to the folk music of a country rich in musical influences.
For the last 20 years, Beth Orton has been making album after album of wonderfully sublime, carefully crafted and melodic folk music.
At this year's Folk Music Festival in Malang, a city in Java, VICE met a 57-year-old security guard named Noldi.
The fun culminates at noon with a rousing concert by Astrograss, a band specializing in bluegrass and folk music for young listeners.
There's so much folk music in fantasy games, especially the ones that are based outdoors and take players around these different landscapes.
This emporium is his second act; its first iteration on Macdougal Street was the epicenter of Greenwich Village's 1960s folk music scene.
He loved nothing more than to get his sons engaged with him in a folk music jam or maybe a string quartet.
For this month's tournament, she tried to study up on categories she knew she was weaker at, like pop and folk music.
Led by the Folk Music Society of New York, this free Staten Island program will teach you to sing like a sailor.
Three headlining shows will represent musical culture, with traditional Scots, Irish and American folk music; Yiddish musical theater; and jazz and blues.
They also put on joint performances with a North Korean marching band that played a mix of Korean folk music and marching songs.
Most of the people that I know that I like that are doing folk music, like Alasdair Roberts, they are doing modern folk.
I come from a folk music background, and Chris is bluegrass, and Gram was from the South, so I think we were fine.
She remains grateful to him, however, for inviting her to a party in 1954 where she met Lomax, the American folk music collector.
Sofia is famous for these clubs, where the city's wealthy dance and drink; they're called chalgoteki , after the pop-folk music they play.
But he made a point, as he wrote in his Times article, of composing his own folk music and spirituals for his score.
This stuff and these things manifested themselves as heavy, angular synths and Oompah-style tuba sounds sprinkled over traditional Bravo-ian folk music.
Like the powerful symphony that brought Price national attention, the concerto draws together African-American folk music and spirituals with a silvery Romanticism.
The show follows the collisions and collusions within a group of Budapestians who devote their leisure time to dancing to Hungarian folk music.
And "So Beautiful or So What" was grounded by infectious shuffling rhythms that made Simon's intricate songs sound as sturdy as folk music.
Ms. Akiyoshi, who also uses instruments and concepts from Japanese folk music, has a knack for tuneful phrasing and braided, two-handed constructions.
At a recent trade fair in the capital, Cubans spontaneously sung along to the folk music played at the opening of Russia's pavilion.
Bennett Konesni traveled to Mongolia and Ukraine as a cultural ambassador, hired directly by the embassies, to introduce the genre of American folk music.
"One morning in my office I can swap between blasting Bach, Bob Dylan, Russian folk music and aggressive rock on my speakers," he said.
If you like plaintive and plainspoken or have a bit of love for good old-fashioned folk music, this is the jam for you.
It made no odds that Michael Nesmith, like fellow Monkee Peter Tork (who died in February), was a product of the folk-music scene.
The folk music legend is set to play an Asia-Pacific tour next year, and Manila was added to the line-up for February.
The simplest of Mr. Johnston's quartets incorporate folk music set in clear harmonies that gain a rosy-cheeked innocence from the meticulously tuned intervals.
Kodo programmes are sometimes interlarded with Japanese folk music on flute and zither, but this time their show will reflect a return to basics.
" The track, which blends techno and trance, traditional Indian and religious folk music, and political sloganeering -- at another point, a voice shouts "Hail Hindustan!
She is the child of two Moldovan folk-music specialists, both of whom joined their daughter at Ojai to play traditional tunes and dances.
That movie definitely introduced a lot of people to that kind of old, eerie pastoral English folk music, which obviously speaks to you too.
We'll see in the future if it resembles more of something like the folk music tradition, or if it resembles more of a religion.
He soon began recording as a solo artist for Odeon, insisting that the producers allow him to sing romantic songs rather than folk music.
It opens in Poland in 1949 with Wiktor (Tomasz Kot, a genius of slow-burning longing), a musician, touring the countryside gathering folk music.
The brand's name, meanwhile, is a nod to the folk music that Iyer heard playing in Tokyo boutiques on recent a trip to Japan.
This track with Tyler, the Creator, has a touch of traditional Malaysian folk music, with its percussion-focused sound, blended with some Bollywood sounds.
His sense of harmony reveals itself in daring melodic extrapolations and in chords that are complex and impressionistic yet as transparent as folk music.
While country is typically associated with white artists and audiences, the genre actually grew out of the black folk music of the American South.
Here, as Saar's words fade, folk music recalling that of the introduction plays again, as the metronome ticks — an ominous beat signaling impending doom.
In the 1960s, the Stanleys were exposed to new audiences on college campuses, in Europe and at music festivals, thanks to the folk music boom.
He blames the lack of global exposure on the pop and folk music industry, which hasn't left much space for the electronic scene to grow.
Before the world caught Bollywood fever, it was folk music and dance from the North Indian state of Punjab that got attention in the West.
Pretty without pandering, it contains fleeting allusions to folk music and sends the cellist on an excursion into the spidery upper harmonics of the instrument.
The 29-year-old singer who is famous in Dangdut circles, a genre of Indonesian folk music, is no stranger to daring on-stage antics.
In the 1970s and 80s, Kim Il Sung preferred staid folk music and orchestral arrangements that glorified Korean history and socialist workers of the world.
Touches of untamed brass notwithstanding, the conductor Joseph Colaneri brought great tenderness to Janacek's tuneful score, teasing out the composer's flourishes of Moravian folk music.
But that said, why wouldn't ASAP Rocky resurrect Moby's "Porcelain" — a grand, sweeping proto-EDM anthem that sounds like modernist folk music — to rap over.
His book, New Mexican Folk Music/Cancionero del Folklor Nuevomexican: Treasures of a People, was published in 2014 and was the inspiration for the exhibition.
Soon I began to realize that this slow, intimate type of folk music mirrored the person sitting in front of me: introverted, cerebral, shy by nature.
" Faso said Friday that the Democrat "should explain what he means" and that "it wouldn't bother me if it was rap or poetry or folk music.
Saga's soundtrack features sounds reminiscent of traditional European and Middle Eastern folk music, merged with synthesizer sounds that give it something of a sci-fi feel.
An early disciple of Elvis Presley in the late '50s, he later graduated to folk music, playing coffee house hootenannies while still a prep school student.
It's just simple folk music, two instruments, two voices in harmony, but it's honest, pretty, and catchy as hell — the sing-along album of the year.
You didn't want to make something that was just purely nostalgic or purely throwback, and this feels completely contemporary, but it also feels like folk music.
Tourists and locals alike can dance to folk music, watch fireworks, or ring in the new year at one of the many town bars and taverns. 
The playlist predominantly includes indie critic-beloved, synth-based dance music, with a few deviations into Billboard 100-charting hip-hop and inoffensive acoustic folk music.
Do stick around for the encores, which these players use to shoot off in unexpected directions with improvised takes on folk music, jazz or the Beatles.
It is filled with spare melodies and rich, intricate three-part harmonies, reminiscent at times of 1970s folk music but very much of the Pacific Northwest.
On Tuesday and Thursday, she is joined by Sotiris Vasiliou and Thibault Lac in "Private Song," which deconstructs gestures, drawing from Greek folk music and dance.thehighline.
Sometimes television programs would invite Quechua speakers, he said, usually only to say a few words to introduce a segment on folk music or a festival.
His parents introduced him to folk music when he was a child; in high school, he listened to Woody Guthrie records and started playing the guitar.
He notes that many different folk-music traditions tend to contain a particular kind of melody or set of notes, "neutral intervals," between major and minor.
The artist works in a style he calls "Ethiopiyawi Electronic," which combines regional folk music and traditional instruments with electronic sounds from all over the globe.
Here, she goes further, mixing her electro-industrial cacophony with elements of classical and English folk music on a jarring, aurally immersive, post-Brexit protest album.
From its inception, the Cornelia Street Café has claimed a liberated identity, equally linked to the worlds of folk music, literature, Off Off Broadway and jazz.
What begins with folk music from nomadic people is transformed by the group's founder, Ibrahim Ag Alhabib, after seeing a film with a Roy Orbison soundtrack.
After stints at the American Conservatory of Music and the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago, he joined the North Texas faculty in 1996.
I expected some kind of spacey, incoherent psychedelic folk music, so I was surprised to find that the music was coherent, and the songwriting and playing accomplished.
Some of it sounded like the Byrds or Buffalo Springfield, other tracks were desolate acoustic folk music—and then there were weird interludes with snippets of dialogue.
La Peligrosa cut her teeth on folk music with a dance bent, but she's gone full Latinx pop star now and it's a strong, primary-colored vibe.
The master percussionist is accompanied by two sons and five of his grandchildren playing rhythmic, fast-tempo folk music on an accordion, violins and a darbuka drum.
I think one of my most engrained musical influences has been South American folk music—everything from Andean to Afro-Limeñan, which I grew up listening to.
Or a beer ad tugging at the heartstrings of Americans who remember folk music and those who only remember crying over those same horses in another winter.
Ms. Mitchell's lovely music and well-turned lyrics are tightly bound together, and recall traditional folk music with a distinctive Southern flavor (although she hails from Vermont).
Greenwich Village then was the epicenter of folk music, though many strummers of hillbilly and bluegrass tunes were the sons and daughters of the Bronx and Brooklyn.
Adding to that rhythmically rich fare, the chamber orchestra Manhattan Camerata opens the program with its "Tango Fado Project," a conversation between Argentine and Portuguese folk music.
EDINBURGH (Reuters) - Scotland's capital kicked off its New Year "Hogmanay" festivities on Monday with a traditional ceilidh folk music dance for kilt-wearing revelers under Edinburgh Castle.
Yet the works of this pivotal Argentine composer, which boldly combine strands of South American folk music with complex contemporary techniques, remain overlooked by many major institutions.
Four repeat songs from Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music and six more select other material by Smith artists, all arduously remastered to augment depth and grain.
And also Celtic music, the bagpipes and fiddle, this beautiful folk music, they all contribute to Nova Scotia being a great place to learn and play music.
To many folk purists, the trio was selling a watered-down mix of folk and pop that commercialized the authentic folk music of countless unknown Appalachian pickers.
The problem is a large number of folks seem to think PDX really is all about honest folk music, quirky coffee shops, and dreaming of the '90s.
Meanwhile in south India, The Casteless Collective, a band put together by Tamil film director Pa.Ranjith, fuses the genres of rap, gana (Tamil folk music), and rock.
With Mountain Man, the North Carolina-based vocal trio, she lends her wispy alto to tender, homey tunes written in the vein of traditional Appalachian folk music.
With Mountain Man, the North Carolina-based vocal trio, she lends her wispy alto to tender, homey tunes written in the vein of traditional Appalachian folk music.
Addison Agen — Team Adam This soulful singer-songwriter may only be 16 years old, but she has already made strides in bringing folk music back into the spotlight.
Segarra's work, like all the best folk music, is committed to expanding the range of that solidarity, and making Americana big enough for everyone who lives in America.
The two meet when she auditions for the Mazurek Ensemble, a group formed in the late 1940s to promote traditional Polish folk music and dance, which he conducts.
For decades, Keita's sound — a hip-shaking yet curiously haunting blend of Mandinka folk music with a percussive jazz- funk — has delighted West African and Western audiences alike.
The orchestrations, by Michael Chorney and Todd Sickafoose, are simultaneously rich and spare, deftly echoing the sounds of traditional folk music while also having an indie-pop flair.
Much has been said by scholars like Christopher Ricks and Sean Wilentz about the way Dylan draws on English ballads, American folk music, minstrel songs, blues, the Bible.
Within a few years, Mr. Dylan was confounding the very notion of folk music, with ever more complex songs and moves toward a more rock 'n' roll sound.
Would going gray require me to listen to folk music, host potlucks featuring casseroles of tempeh and wear fibrous, hand-woven caftans, accented with chunky, hand-forged jewelry?
Early gospel tunes, Mexican folk music and West African griot songs will be interspersed with dramatic readings of texts about slavery by Aristotle, Martin Luther King and others.
After graduating from Scripps College in Claremont and earning a master's in fine arts from Claremont Graduate School, she moved to Manhattan to join the folk music scene.
This track comes from "El Gavilán," Ms. Rei's forthcoming album, composed of eight songs written by Ms. Parra, a leader of Chile's mid-20th-century folk music revival.
The three-day event, which takes place on an ancient mound cemetery on the southern coast of Norway, combines heavy metal and folk music with Old Norse pagan culture.
But there is also the silent majority that might pretend to like folk music but secretly hate it, associating it with forced sing-alongs at summer camp and church.
" Ford says, "I just basically listen to Hawaiian folk music, but my son actually listens to a lot of rock artists, so maybe he has some music for you.
Since 1960, Arhoolie has released hundreds of albums of blues, gospel, Cajun and Mexican folk music that have caught the ear of musicians like Bob Dylan and Ry Cooder.
He was a founding member and the principal songwriter of the Byrds (pictured), who merged their twin loves of folk music and the Beatles into a new hit sound.
It's been nearly thirty years since the Metropolitan Opera staged Gershwin's idea of American folk music, "Porgy and Bess," with its sui-generis blend of opera, jazz, and Broadway.
In the "homey" houses, décor is plain, the residents listen to folk music, and meals are traditional, involving lots of potatoes and avoiding anything too foreign, such as pasta.
My parents were left wing liberal types in the fifties so folk music like Pete Seeger was in my house and then Bob Dylan started when I was twelve.
And the latter has a lot of modern takes on what the music of an imaginary middle Earth may have been like, inspired by British and Irish folk music.
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