Dylan's highly personalized approach toward folk song is still evolving.
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"I'll go anywhere for a folk song," he said jokingly.
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It's a folk song that became a pop song that filtered into social media to become a folk song again — a grass-roots phenomenon that propelled the pop recording to improbable heights of ubiquity.
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SLEEPY HOLLOW "The Great American Folk Song Revival," Caroline Doctorow. Feb.
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But mostly he dwells on the blessing which folk song represented.
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It is instead taken from a recording of a Romanian folk song.
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The 30-year-old skated to the Jewish folk song, "Hava Nagila."
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"Spring Comes to the North," a Japanese folk song, is a favorite.
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The notes of it sounded like a Celtic folk song to me.
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The effect is as calming and heart-opening as a folk song.
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Sonically it's basically a folk song; a hip-hop, folk, psychedelic record.
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They were wrong, as Steve Roud robustly demonstrates in "Folk Song in England".
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He complies and belts out with what sounds like an Irish folk song.
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But the researchers argued against another theory that aligns with the folk song.
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"It was like making a new song from a folk song," she said.
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Eating it is like hearing a folk song after years of jangly pop.
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Lorde performed the 2005 folk song at Osheaga, a star-studded festival in Montreal.
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Pop is the folk song of the modern age, and has been for a while.
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The bus will play a traditional Korean folk song as it passes the Japanese embassy.
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Quotes from German folk song and Gregorian chant coexist with angular remnants of Expressionist angst.
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Before we knew it, it became sort of a folk song by way of Gary Numan.
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The classic folk song "This Land Is Your Land" may literally belong to you and me.
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In it, Rory McCann, AKA The Hound, happily sings a little folk song while playing the guitar.
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His proudest achievement was to have persuaded the government to get folk song into the school curriculum.
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A Reddit user has turned Donald Trump Jr.'s emails into a folk song — yes, those emails.
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The music suggests a wistful folk song, cushioned by plaintive harmonies and restless lines in the instruments.
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She played a beautifully soft-spoken encore: Manuel De Falla's setting of "Nana," a Spanish folk song.
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They embraced one another and chanted folk song Auld Lang Syne after ratifying the terms of Brexit.
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Serious Soviet music brought together Tchaikovsky's lugubrious Romanticism, Pioneer marches, a little Beethoven, folk song strains, tunelets.
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The university band no longer plays "Dixie," a Southern folk song with minstrel roots, at sporting events.
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So Ms. Wolfe inventively juxtaposes a plaintive Yiddish folk song with a lively Italian tarantella-like piece.
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Her 20-minute-long "Book of Evil Spirits" concludes with a lachrymose Greek folk song about drug taking.
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It's a story song, like "Taxi" with Harry Chapin, more of a folk song than a pop tune.
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Their duet, "Oh, rimembranza," is based on a wistful melody so simple it might be a folk song.
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I became aware of Cecil Sharp House, which is the English Folk Song and Dance Society building in Camden.
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Then, after the last song, there's 28 minutes of silence, then a horrific Scottish folk song drenched in feedback.
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FOR YEARS it was said that "Kumbaya", a well-known American folk song, was written by a white man.
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Fortunately, Tom Lehrer did not consider this a restriction when he penned his reimagining of the folk song "Clementine".
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The rest of Mr Roud's book is a fascinating tour d'horizon of folk song in all its multifarious contexts.
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Maclean's memento mori takes the form of a gentle folk song with a yacht-rock pulse and foamy synths.
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At one point, what could be a stirring Russian folk song emerges, scored with cinematic lushness in the orchestra.
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It was captured in 1926 by Robert Winslow Gordon, the first head of the Archive of American Folk Song.
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"Hwages," which is based on a Bedouin folk song, roughly translates from Arabic to mean "concerns," The Huffington Post reports.
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Or could it still exist in a country that celebrates the Christmas tree with a traditional folk song, "O Tannenbaum"?
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At 9PM sharp, she would play her theme music over the phone, a Hmong folk song by Txooj Muas Thoj.
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He did it to retain his rights to the poem, which was adapted into a folk song by Jerry Moore.
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One of the biggest hits from the album was "Day-O" ("The Banana Boat Song"), based on a Jamaican folk song.
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"NYx" opens with a searching solo violin melody, like some mournful folk song, that slips into raunchy bursts of double-stops.
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In Canada the memory of the expedition has been largely kept alive by "Northwest Passage," a popular folk song by Stan Rogers.
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A local folk song even describes a mass pilgrimage to the shrine of a mountain goddess, called Nanda Devi, near the lake.
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These horrors aren't imagined; Mr. Sellars assembled the libretto from historical texts, including journals, poems and folk song lyrics of the time.
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Ms. Carter, jazz's leading mainstream violinist, plays with a thick, warm-molasses tone; she's equally indebted to classical technique and folk song.
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Each episode of Alias Grace, a new television adaptation of Margaret Atwood's 1996 novel, ends with a haunting a cappella folk song.
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Mr. Trudeau also admitted on Wednesday to dressing up in blackface while performing "Day-O," the Jamaican folk song, in high school.
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So there's a song in Cold War that evolves over time — a folk song that comes to be very meaningful to the story.
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That movie's main theme was based on a Scandinavian folk song, drawing on the original roots of many of the film's Dakota residents.
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In that concert, the final encore would see Slowhand tackle "Arirang", a folk-song indispensable to karaoke-singers in both North and South.
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The piece synthesizes searing episodes of modernist music with evocations of Hungarian folk song, Bulgarian dance, hints of Renaissance polyphony — you name it.
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When she started to sing, the number became unlike any version I'd heard before—plaintive, sweet, a folk song about love and desire.
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During the slow movement, which has a wistful theme like a Russian folk song, Mr. Adès drew rich, deep tones from the strings.
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Hugo named the series after the popular folk song about an injured cockroach whose lyrics are often rewritten in Mexico as political satire.
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While apologizing for that image, Mr. Trudeau also admitted to dressing up in blackface while performing a Jamaican folk song in high school.
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It was a pretty sort of country-ish folk song, and I thought that would be funny to do because it's such intense lyrics.
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In "Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues," the melody of a workers' folk song is gradually engulfed by music as ruthlessly propulsive as an industrial engine.
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The Quodlibet, the culminating variation, typically unfolds as a rousing climax to the cycle, its interpolated folk-song airs adding a tone of merriment.
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There was falafel and hummus on the buffet table, and the D.J. was playing a dance remix of "Sidi Mansour," a Tunisian folk song.
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It's glimmering, propulsive music, with hints of elegiac Spanish folk song, cool jazz from the 1950s and the Romantic modern jazz of the 1990s.
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A Mexican folk song, "La Bamba" was propelled to (renewed) fame by the 1987 film of the same name, a biopic of Ritchie Valens.
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Similarly, she can tell you for a fact that three months ago, she sang a rendition of an old English folk song onstage—a solo.
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It's The Giving Tree set to a folk song, with a father and daughter growing old together while their car Pearl silently cements their bond.
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It's a lo-fi folk song about heavy metal, delivered with a warm, comic touch and an empathetic passion from Mountain Goats auteur John Darnielle.
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He apologized on Wednesday and revealed that he also wore blackface and sang the Jamaican folk song "Day O" in a high school talent show.
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He collaborated with a local group called Altai on an incredible version of the classic folk song Wayfaring Stranger, and the results went viral in Mongolia.
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Also, courtesy of podcast producer Tim Barnes, an extra treat for the pod fans out there: our Nier: Automata podcast re-imagined as a folk song.
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Nelsons presided over the Third Symphony, that vast compendium of Alpine tone poetry, roughshod folk song, clashing village bands, boys' choruses, Nietzsche, and post-Wagnerian ecstasy.
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As a cover of a Caribbean folk song, it's sometimes viewed as an oddity — something that doesn't belong on an album that's ostensibly about failed romance.
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When the combined hockey team plays, "Arirang," a folk song popular on both sides of the border, will play in place of either country's national anthem.
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Music reminiscent of the folk song "The Water Is Wide" underscores discussions of marriage; snare drum rolls and vibrant march tunes propel the public debate scenes.
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That didn't stop Benjamin DeJesus, 50, from lugging his Mexican harp onto an A train on a recent weekday and breaking into a lilting folk song.
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Post Malone released his debut single, "White Iverson," a blurry folk song that sounded like a hip-hop song that sounded like a drunken whisper serenade.
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Now, Mahler often evoked everyday music in his symphonies — dance tunes, or the sound of some Austrian villager playing a folk song on a wheezing clarinet.
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All the while music provides an additional emotional barometer, from the evolving refrain of folk song "Dwa Serduszka" ("Two Hearts") to jazz and rock and roll.
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The same is true for "Not Abel," which builds up as an acoustic-based folk song before spinning off into a different dimension in its final third.
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Their discoveries were published in the Journal of the Folk-Song Society, and the craze ran out of steam only with the outbreak of war in 1914.
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The Violin Concerto (1992) unfolds in an episodic, teeming rush of colors, effects and techniques, with echoes of plaintive Transylvanian folk song and bouts of pulsing wildness.
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In the final sequence of the ceremony, Russian opera singer Aida Garifullina performed Russian folk song "Kalinka" accompanied by bagpipes, a children's choir, and a percussion section.
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Three singers then stood on the first-base dugout and did a rendition of "This Land Is Your Land," the famous folk song written by Woody Guthrie.
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The Jem Cohen-directed video accompanies his rendition of "Bella Ciao," a classic Italian folk song that became a revolutionary anti-fascist anthem during the Italian Civil War.
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A federal judge in Manhattan has refused to dismiss a lawsuit claiming that Woody Guthrie's classic 1940 folk song "This Land is Your Land" belongs to the public.
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During the Astros&apos batting practice, Ruehle played the Japanese folk song, "Sukiyaki," in honor of Dodgers starting pitcher Yu Darvish at the suggestion of Japanese media members.
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But it's rare to hear a young singer with such a uniformly beautiful sound and such solid technique in repertory that includes the Baroque and Chinese folk song.
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There's also a lovely folk song, "Passion and Love," from Sharon Van Etten, who has been quiet since releasing I Don't Want to Let You Down in 2015.
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Yet another idea is based on a local folk song that describes a mass pilgrimage to the shrine of a mountain goddess, called Nanda Devi, near the lake.
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Mr. Ponty, a French violinist, is known for his flashy virtuosity and his venturesome original music, a fusion-era brew of European folk song, funk, postbop and rock.
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Mr. Dylan may have cribbed the first line from the traditional English folk song "Go Away From My Window," recorded by Jeannie Robertson and John Jacob Niles, among others.
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When the music broke into a wistful melody, like some Moravian folk song, in this context and setting it sounded like a consoling hymn drifting from the church sanctuary.
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"Arirang," a centuries-old Korean folk song, is often heard at the Games — and has served as a stand-in national anthem as North and South Korea build ties.
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In an independent record store, she met a serious-minded young man, Paul Carter, an industrial chemist who moonlighted as a producer and seller of English folk-song records.
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Shortly after three, loudspeakers that had been set up around the cloister's edge started playing a recording of the English folk song "Scarborough Fair," as arranged for boy choristers.
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When he's young, and attending a friend's birthday party, his grandmother, "her face the shade of raw ground beef from a single Heineken," sings a folk song about corpses.
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Extras on the Blu-ray reissue include a documentary of the tribute concert inspired by the movie and Dan Drasin's "Sunday" (1961), documenting the "folk song riot" in Washington Square.
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Trudeau described dressing up in blackface at a high-school talent show to sing "Day-O," a Jamaican folk song performed by the African American singer and activist Harry Belafonte.
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"Song of Silver Geese," her coming album, consists of an original nine-part suite drawing on East Asian and Melanesian folk song, and the writings of two of her mentors.
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"Song of Silver Geese," her coming album, consists of an original, nine-part suite drawing on East Asian and Melanesian folk song, and the writings of two of her mentors.
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In the pummeling "Augurs of Spring" section, when the music calms down briefly and a horn plays what seems a folk song, Bernstein gets the orchestra to ease up wonderfully.
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He not only gave diamond-studded watches to his workers, but also once paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to commission a folk song about one of his slain friends.
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To reread the book under the current administration is to engage with a parable of sorts, a folk song about the challenges of being a person whose birthright defines him.
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There's surely no kinder summation of love's petulance than the chorus of "Think About It," a jangling folk song about taking a breath before hurling yourself off a metaphorical cliff.
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On Tuesday night's episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, the 24-year-old rapper joined the late night host to sing an Irish folk song and play beer pong.
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Now a funk song and now a folk song and now a jazz song and now a rock song and now a protopunk song, I guess, and wait is that Motown?
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Born in Ethiopia, Ms. Jernberg wove a keening Ethiopian folk song into her own assemblage of virtuosic vocal tricks: yelps, croaks and hums evocative of birds and of early Meredith Monk.
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The Outlaws planned to sing a verse from a Woody Guthrie folk song, "This Land Is Your Land," before the game, and they placed monitors wearing yellow badges in each section.
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A single tune might sprawl out to 20 minutes of elastic thrashing by his band; the agenda seemed to be hypnotic discovery, even within the parameters of a supposed folk song.
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Calling it "radical Jewish music," he uses the composition series to explore Hebrew scripture and Jewish folk song, as well as the free jazz styles that have long informed his approach.
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Of course, no one is thinking about this as the second hour comes to a close, and Christine picks up her guitar to sing a folk song in her native tongue.
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She greeted a group of school children waving miniature Chinese and American flags, handing out stuffed toy eagles after watching the children sing a Chinese folk song at the panda enclosure.
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Ms. Shocron, a pianist, and Mr. Díaz, a drummer, both hail from Argentina, and together they make wobbly, dreamlike music with the lilt of folk song and the expansiveness of jazz.
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But a strict regimen in which all holiday music was forbidden, as well as any Celtic folk song with pipes and drums, has returned me to my cheerful, well-adjusted self.
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"Auld Lang Syne" -- which roughly translates to "times gone by"-- was written by Scottish poet Robert Burns in 1788 and is thought to have been based on a Scottish folk song.
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Kim received a full red-carpet welcome at the DMZ, including a military band in traditional dress which played the Korean folk song "arirang," well known in both North and South Korea.
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As the dancers — in denim outfits that could have come from the Levi's store across the street — crawled, slithered, moaned, wailed and paraded uptown belting out a Venezuelan folk song, people gawked.
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But throughout his career, he has innovated new roles — and a new sense of potential — for the voice in jazz, classical music, American folk song and much of the space in between.
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NEW YORK, Feb 28 (Reuters) - A federal judge in Manhattan on Friday dismissed a lawsuit claiming that Woody Guthrie's iconic 1940 folk song "This Land is Your Land" belongs to the public.
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But the two Koreas could get no further than deciding that a hypothetical joint squad would use a well-known Korean folk song, "Arirang," instead of picking one of their national anthems.
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In April, when Xi was visiting Trump at his Mar-a-Lago estate, Arabella was made to sing a Chinese folk song that Peng Liyuan, Xi's wife, had once performed on Chinese television.
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In the public television interview, Mr. Slipak is shown singing the Ukrainian folk song "Moon in the Sky" as he loads his gun, snapping bullets into the magazine in time with the music.
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The title, taken from a folk song, became an anthem for activists who constantly struggled to stay focused on their goal of racial equality as they were called troublemakers, jailed and even killed.
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In between, there's the eight-year "Nistru," a sweeter brandy that is made "by women for women" and the nine-year "Doina," a more robust spirit named after a kind of Moldovan folk song.
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It is a challenge for trained singers to abandon ingrained habits and absorb Monk's raw, pure vocal style, which has been described as a kind of folk song for which no historical folk exists.
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In the choir, too, the stentorian seriousness of the men singing a line from Peter, "For all flesh is as grass," is answered by the women in a more pliable, folk-song-like style.
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Bush's version was an intimate mash-up of '80s pop and folk song and musical theater; Olatuja has found a way to honor what made it so distinctive, while creating a whole new sound.
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From there it made its way to Louisiana and evolved into subject matter for a Cajun folk song depicting a woman doing a risqué dance (doesn't it always involve a woman doing a risqué dance?).
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What became known as the English Folk-Song Revival was ushered in by accident when, in 1899, a conductor named Cecil Sharp chanced upon some Morris dancers accompanied by a concertina-player and was entranced.
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Mr. Robertson drew out the music's misty colorings and hints of Finnish folk song, while emphasizing the visionary elements of this 1902 score, especially its structural daring, full of startling disruptions to the music's flow.
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During a climactic scene, the matriarch, Mamá Imelda, sings a folk song called "La Llorona," a reference to the traditional ghost story of a bereaved mother who kidnaps children to replace the ones she lost.
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Jeffrey Schecter, 44, whose mother, Joyce, died at the Hebrew Home in October, recalled a visit near the end of her life when Ms. Kelly was playing a Jewish folk song, which Ms. Schecter loved.
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Surveying English musical life from the time of Henry VIII—a keen musician and composer—to the mid-20th century, when folk song lost its roots, he shows what an intensely musical land England has been.
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Still, a scene of her singing a Mexican folk song with her brother and nephew in her living room ("I can't let them sing this without me") demonstrates that she can still harmonize and style beautifully.
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" In another sharp turn, the program included motley built-in encores ("three little folk-song-like things," Mr. Finley called them): Copland's "Ching-a-Ring Chaw," Respighi's "My Heart's in the Highlands" and Britten's "The Crocodile.
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As performed here, the shifts in "Jumalattaret" seemed just right, as the music segued from mellow moments of jazzy piano chords, wistful folk song and strands of filigreed passagework to crazed blasts that suggested hardcore rock.
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But though the comparison is so, so tempting (Polish folk song "Dwa Serduszka", the film's main anthem, might not roll off the tongue as easily as "Hair Body Face," but whatever, "oyoyoooooooye") it is a little unfair.
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Speaking on the House floor two months back, Representative Buddy Carter of Georgia recognized the Gullah Geechee, whose ancestors were brought to America's southeastern coast from West Africa, as the probable creators of the famous folk song.
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There were extraordinary scenes in Brussels on Wednesday as MEPs from different member states and political parties embraced one another and chanted the folk song as the UK&aposs MEPs attend the parliament for the final time.
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The past few years have brought folksy screeching, glacial silences, drawling speech, powdery bleakness and spiritual solemnity; last year, a keening Ethiopian folk song was tricked out with an avant-garde mixture of yelps, croaks and hums.
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"I must not," Mary scolds herself after visiting the orphanage, thinking of the child that she had tried to save in Barcelona and the voices of the refugee children as they sang a simple German folk song.
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My folk-song understanding of the river as a timeless tableau of placidity had swiftly been subverted by an appreciation for the arroyo's defiant fullness — a fullness achieved not in spite of volatility but out of it.
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Following the publication of Time's story, Trudeau revealed that he had also worn blackface once in high school during a performance of "Day-O," the Jamaican folk song popularized by American singer and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte.
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Which may be exactly why viewers of the Super Deluxe video found it so satisfying to see Jones's signature combative delivery disarmed by hearing it turned into a gently ethereal folk song, one that made his rage merely ridiculous.
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"Beneath her wrinkly exterior lies a complexity not often found in such a young cheese," reads Capriole's description of the Wabash Cannonball, a popular, prizewinning cheese named for the folk song about a fictional train sung by Johnny Cash.
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A cultural note as the Olympic Games near their end: "Arirang," a centuries-old Korean folk song, is often heard at the Games — and has served as a stand-in national anthem as North and South Korea build ties.
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But to introduce elements of folk song and dance that run through Dvorak's major scores, Mr. Fischer began with three short pieces: a lyrically glowing Legend, a rousing Slavonic Dance and that wistful choral piece, "Misto Klekani" ("Evening's Blessing").
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"Heidenröslein," one of his earliest great poems, is written in the style of a folk song and almost entirely in words of one or two syllables: " Sah ein Knab ' ein Röslein stehn " ("A boy saw a little rose standing").
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There was even a song about it: After Tony Turner, an Environment Canada scientist, got suspended from his job after his anti-Stephen Harper folk song hit YouTube, the song went viral, inspiring "Harperman" sing-alongs across the country.
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He waited until well into the evening — when he also had to explain an erroneous text printed in the program (the wrong folk song, it turned out, though also called "King Henry") — to announce that he was suffering from a cold.
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"No More Auction Block" (Live at the Gaslight, 21964) "The Bootleg Series Volumes 210-26 (Rare and Unreleased) 21964-211" A traditional folk song recorded at the Gaslight, the one Village coffeehouse Mr. Dylan seemed to prefer over the others.
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It features seven hushed and haunted originals, with little more than a piano backing her and a 14-minute take on "Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair," the Appalachian folk song that she pulverizes into noxious dust.
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Patriotic songs,like the folk song "Gerakina" were used to "re-educate" Greeks who were on the path of communism and had lost their "Greekness," explains a report by Anna Papaeti, research fellow at the University of Göttingen in Germany.
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The display of the traditional martial art of taekwon do was part of a joint effort with South Korea as the stadium filled up, and the host nation's segment was accompanied by a pop version of a traditional Korean folk song.
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"Sooho" means "protection" in Korean; "rang" comes from the Korean name for tiger, "ho-rang-i," as well as the folk song "Jeong-seon A-ri-rang," the traditional song of the Gangwon Province, which is where the Olympics will take place.
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The 36-second video, originally from 20193, features the comedian singing the lyrics of Three Six Mafia's "Slob On My Knob" to the tune of well-known folk song "Carol of the Bells." what if three six mafia sang a christmas carol pic.twitter.
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In a news conference on the Capitol steps, he promised to continue pushing for gun-control legislation, and invoked the lyrics of the folk song, based on the old standard "Gospel Plow," that served as a soundtrack to a movement he helped lead.
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The name Katyusha, which is the Russian diminutive for Ekaterina, or Catherine, was the title of a popular folk song during World War II; the name was affixed to large artillery rockets fired by the Red Army because its actual name was secret.
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In addition to thrilling numbers performed by an ensemble of handsome real-life dancers, Akin includes a gorgeous sequence set at a house party in the country, where guests sing a folk song in the haunting polyphonic harmony that distinguishes Georgian folk music.
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Miss Smyth has been most successful in striking the note of folk-song that is appropriate to the peasantry with which the opera is populated, and that is uppermost in the earlier part of the work, as in the opening chorus and in the dance.
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But the video remains sensitive to such concerns in part because its visual and sonic elements — a candlelight vigil; a soulful folk song performed by a female singer — focus it less on the male voices and more on the general atmosphere of ritualistic mourning.
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They are also perfectly at home next to art songs, as was clear from his hauntingly private rendition of three "Folk Song Arrangements" by Benjamin Britten, and his blues-inflected performance of three songs by Ives, all accompanied by Mr. Andres at the piano.
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Ms. Min, a spry and fearless practitioner of the pipa, a Chinese lute, has a new album out, titled "Mao, Monk and Me." On it she performs and sings unaccompanied, blending the music of Thelonious Monk with Chinese folk song and her own experimental excursions.
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And, with the Strauss songs still fresh in the ear, it was fascinating to hear Brahms's "Ophelia-Lieder," folk song-like settings of several of the same Shakespeare texts, performed here in an arrangement for voice and thick-textured string quartet by Aribert Reimann.
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It's a Friday night in Toronto, and comedian Tricia Black is strumming a guitar while singing an irreverent folk song about cunnilingus and her identity as a "bad lesbian" — but mostly about cunnilingus — at Second City, a legendary institution and Canada's premier comedy club.
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" Posted by Super Deluxe, the video's a parody song written by the Tennessean musician and comedian Nick Lutsko—who's hit this particular retweet jackpot before with projects like "Donald Trump's Tweets As An Early 2000s Emo Song" and "Alex Jones Rants as an Indie Folk Song.
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There, in the evenings, he would observe the arrival of the City of New Orleans, an overnighter immortalized in the 1971 folk song of the same name ("Mothers with their babes asleep rocking to the gentle beat/And the rhythm of the rails is all they feel").
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Just like the record of New Zealand folk song "Pokarekare Ana," an All Blacks rugby jersey, and prints of his brother Dick's paintings, I imagine this little envoy of New Zealand life gave him a sense of a stretched umbilical cord: a link back to his homeland.
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But when I first watched the Nora Ephron classic in college with my own boyfriend and small circle of friends, the idea of a group of 30-somethings assembling in earnest to improvise an Australian folk song was a whimsical promise of what adulthood could be like.
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"My father and mother exhorted me to forget about going, […] 'An ounce of gold is won in exchange for a thousand happinesses,'" reads part of "The Story of Gold Mountain," a 1960th-century Toisan folk song pleading a father not to join the California Gold Rush.
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At its debut last year, their hit single, "Habib Galbi," inspired by a Yemeni folk song and shot in the arid landscape of the Arava Valley in Israel, gained an international audience, including Europeans and Mipsterz (Muslim hipsters), and close to 3.7 million views on YouTube.
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If you're performing a short set at a small, intimate venue or just playing for friends at home, the device allows you to really spice up the performance and avoid what can at times be that dreary, folk-song-y thing that acoustic players often struggle with.
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On "Let's Dance," another biblical call to the dancefloor, Rodgers and his regular collaborator Bob Clearmountain took what was originally said to be a folk song and stripped it down to a gloriously simple, shiny, punchy joyride full of descending basslines and that made you move.
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GANGNEUNG, South Korea — It may not have been the most obvious choice for Yura Min and Alexander Gamelin, the American-born ice dancing pair representing South Korea at the Olympics, to skate on Tuesday to "Arirang," a Korean folk song whose roots go back hundreds of years.
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At Zankel Hall, the formidable Kirill Gerstein will play unusual works by Liszt, Brahms and Gyorgy Kurtag steeped in Hungarian dances and folk song, as well as pieces by Haydn, Busoni, Bartok (the flinty, seldom-heard Piano Sonata), Thomas Adès and, to end, Schubert's exuberant "Wanderer" Fantasy.
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Mintus, a 27-year-old pianist who hails from Israel, pours together a mixed brew of influences — Arabic maqam, Jewish folk song, Eastern European dance rhythms and, especially, classic hard bop — with such ebullient grace that you'd think they all originated in the very same place.
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"Sooho", the Korean word meaning protection, is meant to symbolize the protect offered to everyone involved with the Games while "Rang" is a mixture of the Korean word for tiger and the name of a traditional folk song in the Gangwon Province, where the Games will be held.
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There's that one song on there, "Insects Don't Eat Bananas," which is a kind of funny, Bahamas folk song sort of thing, then there's the one that's kind of a weird tape collage thing, but other than that, those are the two gestures at getting out of a certain mood.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Nina Simone's 1959 performance of "Black is the Color (of My True Love's Hair)" took a popular folk song and resuscitated it in the mainstream, deploying it for Simone's own repertoire and obscuring the meaning of "black" to be more ambiguous than pure color.
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When Hurricane Dorian brought this fate to the poor people of the Bahamas, many across that sandy archipelago were no doubt reminded of a famous Bahamian folk song, "Run, Come See Jerusalem," that a Bahamian calypso singer known as Blind Blake Higgs wrote to recall a harsh storm there in 21979.
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Last year, Zorn, the eminent alto saxophonist and downtown arts organizer, released "The Book Beriah," the final portion of his 613-song epic, "Masada," a collection of experimental, often lovely compositions based in Jewish folk song, klezmer and free jazz (613 is the number of commandments, or mitzvot, in the Torah).
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When I first met her to talk about the role, I asked her if we could sing this folk song together, because if there's no chemistry or we can't sing together, it won't work, but she just sat down and made me feel comfortable, and from then on it was that way.
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Sarno and Lobley's ongoing project to preserve the Bayaka's indigenous languages and oral tradition is similar to the efforts of Alan Lomax, an ethnomusicologist and folklorist who recorded thousands of songs and interviews for the Archive of American Folk Song and Hugh Tracey, an ethnomusicologist who archived music from Southern and Central Africa.
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We was friends, me and this old manLike desperados waiting for a train For the brooding title track of his 1995 album, "Dublin Blues," Mr. Clark used an unlikely juxtaposition of images to effect an arresting shift in perspective — in this case, casting an old mountain folk song in a shimmering new light.
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"As a standalone North Korean performance may breed criticism that the South set the stage for Pyongyang's propaganda, it would be desirable if the two teams perform by turns and then play together a popular song like Arirang for the finale," Cheong said, referring to a folk song shared by the two Koreas.
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