Others took to singing romantic songs, especially Russian folk songs.
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Be warned — there are a surprising number of folk songs.
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Only in the Arabic folk songs did love shyly appear.
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Others perform folk songs from their country in traditional dress.
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Some of the original folk songs have dramatic, violent texts.
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Singers belted out folk songs in milanes, the city's distinctive dialect.
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When they'd get together they were always singing these folk songs.
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It had folk songs about longing and soul music about feelings.
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Spectators belted out folk songs and tilted wineskins toward their mouths.
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None of the themes are adaptations or derivations of folk songs.
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The name Arirang actually refers to a category of folk songs.
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The rock & roll and the standards, the dancing, the folk songs.
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She's immortalized in folk songs and a highway bears her name.
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" The Smithsonian Institution's Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage recorded her performing a selection of Western folk songs, accompanied by her husband on guitar, and released it in 20163 as "Folk Songs of Idaho and Utah.
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Anthony Russell, a singer, combines Yiddish folk songs with African-American spirituals.
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A guitarist comes by and plays a few folk songs for us.
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That eponymous album consisted mostly of cover versions of old folk songs.
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Rumors of his ruthlessness and influence inspired folk songs and popular culture.
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Drake then forced 240 make a beat out of Jewish folk songs.
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Instead, she turned her attention to collecting and publishing extant folk songs.
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The article also referred incorrectly to the folk songs in the play.
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Then you have the more elaborate folk songs from the last decade.
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In between them, the Young People's Chorus sang folk songs and spirituals.
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"The songs our granddad would teach us would be traditional folk songs, but we were really oblivious at the time—we just wanted to learn, like, Limp Bizkit songs, but we were learning these folk songs," recalls Uli.
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She took classes with the folklorist Wayland Hand, learned to play the guitar, gathered folk songs from quilting bees sponsored by the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers, and studied folk songs that her grandmother had pasted into a scrapbook.
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It's about time we started rebooting classic folk songs for the 21st century.
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His dramatic psych-folk songs were spacious, cinematic and edged with mystic, lonesome brooding.
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His mother, the former Elsie Tygier, sang Yiddish and Polish folk songs to Maurice.
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He's the star of countless narcocorridos, or folk songs about outlaws and cartel leaders.
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They've always specialized in these thrilling exercises that spread out his often-straightforward folk songs.
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Many of the folk songs feel like snapshots of the time through a woman's eyes.
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During this time, those older English folk songs and Led Zeppelin were really inspiring me.
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Woody Guthrie wrote what is one of the most recognizable American folk songs in 1940.
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The songs ranged from Cat Stevens to Florence and the Machines and Hebrew folk songs.
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Sometimes I'll sample or play old Japanese folk songs so that might be what they mean.
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And folk songs are often scrapped together from the stolen parts of things that came before.
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The city's underground is a swirl of feminist folk songs and pro-women, pro-choice speeches.
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Métis music was shaped by similar forces, blending French folk songs, Scottish jigs and native rhythms.
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And between the talks, a musician named Lisa Knapp performed folk songs about wind and weather.
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Her debut album tells a personal story by placing folk songs alongside mostly Russian operatic repertoire.
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They were singing folk songs like "Holy Fatherland," a tune once favored by the Hitler Youth.
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Its eight folk songs could, on first listen, have been written anytime in the last half-century.
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The group's repertory consists of folk songs, spirituals and a few of Mr. Lloyd's best-known compositions.
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It is set against glorious (South) Korean countryside, and overlaid with the country's best-loved folk songs.
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Mr. Dennehy, who teaches at Princeton University, folds folk songs (both live and recorded) into his score.
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The music — Jewish prayers, African hymns, Greek folk songs, a Bach violin sonata — is dreamy and grave.
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But when he failed to get the job, he ended up singing folk songs in Manila nightclubs.
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Nothing is off the table, from Greek folk songs to early microtonal recordings to French political speeches.
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Ms. Meath's voice is natural, chipper and conversational, with melodies as direct as pop and folk songs.
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One by one, she played folk songs she had learned at five—"The Irish Washerwoman," a Hanukkah medley.
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The producer gave us a primer on Syrian shaabi, celebratory rural folk songs that influenced his current music.
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The participants spread out, singing and chanting indigenous folk songs all the while as they began to hunt.
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She often played selections from the "Fireside Book of Folk Songs" on the piano when Eric was young.
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Their dislocated lives left little room for nostalgia or even for remembering their folk songs, called saltwater songs.
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Musicians sing what could become folk songs in Orlando's history: one, by Sugar City, is called "World of Love".
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And even more than memes or folk songs, dance moves often evolve with the help of a whole subculture.
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"Blowin' in the Wind," written in 1962, was considered one of the most eloquent folk songs of all time.
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"Blowin' in the Wind", written in 1962, was considered one of the most eloquent folk songs of all time.
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Neither is it a full-blown conceptual analog to "Moby-Dick," nor a jazz treatment of maritime folk songs.
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He later recorded his own album, "Make Me a Pallet on Your Floor and Other Folk Songs" in 1962.
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It's a choice to write pop songs, just like it's a choice to write blues songs or folk songs.
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In the 1920s, these black musicians played blues songs for African American audiences and folk songs for white listeners.
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"I write dumpy white-boy folk songs but I always want to include more experimental things in there," he says.
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So take a few minutes out of your day, enjoy a few fun folk songs, and maybe actually watch BrainDead?
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"Songs of Bukovina," a suite of dances set to preludes loosely based on Ukrainian folk songs, will be the sixth.
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Heard here in 2017, those aging folk songs take on the air of lamentations, evocations of an era that's unknowable.
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The show recreates a mawlid — a popular street festivals held in honor of local holy figures — with folk songs and dancing.
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Ajay Kumar, one of Tiwari's friends, described him as a hard working, jovial person who was fond of singing folk songs.
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In one hotel, Chinese visitors fill a stuffy restaurant where they watch scantily dressed dancers and women singing Russian folk songs.
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It can be traced to John Wesley Work's collection in 1907, "New Jubilee Songs and Folk Songs of the American Negro".
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Celebrating the release of his fifth children's album, "One," Mr. Smith will perform reggae tunes and Jamaican and African folk songs.
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Growing up, he took in a range of influences, from Miami bass and experimental dance music to Latin-American folk songs.
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He traveled to the republic of Georgia to record polyphonic folk songs and to Fez, Morocco, in search of Sufi music.
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The first book they illustrated, the "Fireside Book of Folk Songs" (1947), was a hit, catching the emerging folk-music wave.
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Art songs dream of becoming pop songs and pop songs dream of becoming folk songs, too familiar to need an author.
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Critic's Notebook There's a fundamental contradiction to the life and work of Alan Lomax, the prolific collector of American folk songs.
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The lines have hourly programming and themes: call in the afternoon, and you might find someone singing traditional Hmong folk songs.
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Two individuals speaking the extinct native Alaskan dialect of Attu surfaced from the deep, singing old folk songs of love and loss.
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Mercifully, no one could hear as she blundered through folk songs and riffs and scraps of Bach—the music she had known.
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The production, which includes folk songs from Humperdinck's opera, gives Rosina her just deserts by transforming her into a dessert: a cookie.
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After moving on to several ear-shattering renditions of popular Swedish folk songs, he finishes by proudly mooning everyone in his vicinity.
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The only company I had was fleeting: speedy Korean kayakers singing folk songs; at least that's what the lilting melodies sounded like.
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LEONID DESYATNIKOV The foundation was a thick book published in the Soviet Union containing Ukrainian folk songs from the 18th century forward.
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I began playing half an hour a day: working through Mozart's sonatinas, sampling Tchaikovsky's "Seasons" and gloomy Norwegian folk songs by Grieg.
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He asked the Belgian composer Annelies Van Parys to add more music for the character, which she based on Romany folk songs.
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After our picnic at Tbeti, the teachers began a medley of folk songs, punctuated with solos by a part-time opera singer.
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Her music is a combination of traditional and folk songs, rendered as Afghan pop, overlaid occasionally with a bit of hip-hop.
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Also entrancing: a preshow performance of Mongolian folk songs, accompanied by live music played on the morin khuur (horse-head fiddle). socratessculpturepark.
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Her debut album, last year's "At Weddings," documented in hushed ambient-folk songs her split from the Baptist church of her youth.
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Crowds draped in white-blue-red Russian flags sang folk songs and whooped wildly in the marbled corridors of the St. Petersburg subway.
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There was a huge life-size cake of the star, replete with detail including his tattoos, and typical Russian dance and folk songs.
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Guzman's exploits after the 2001 prison break were immortalized in lyrics, such as the corridos, or folk songs, sung about him in Mexico.
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" Edmund Wilson once said that "we have produced some of our truest poetry in the folk songs that are inseparable from their tunes.
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Its tune is drawn from one of Balakirev's collections of folk songs, treated with Lisztian brilliance while vivid wind solos compete for attention.
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They have been particularly visible at the hockey games, where cheerleaders have whirled pom-poms and they have belted out Russian folk songs.
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He and a friend picked up guitars, and they began to sing old German folk songs, some of them with beautiful, baroque melodies.
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Lund had been a popular lieder singer in Europe between the two World Wars, with a repertoire of folk songs in many languages.
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With our choir master, Ms Christmass, we sung a broad range of music, including Hungarian folk songs, religious choral music, madrigals and contemporary pieces.
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The album will also have covers of popular folk songs like Bob Dylan's "Girl From the North Country" and "Everybody Knows," by Leonard Cohen.
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We started playing around 2014, working on some sad folk songs I'd been writing since getting back from a lengthy depressive solo trip overseas.
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We don't want to be authentic in the same way that when we sing in English, we don't want to create American folk songs.
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It opened up the definition of literature to include 2015 laureate Svetlana Alexievich's oral histories and 2016 laureate Bob Dylan's off-kilter folk songs.
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The music roamed hither and yon, and back again — from fiddlers to folk songs of the Appalachians to ethnic songs of the big cities.
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Crosby applied his soothing baritone to love songs, folk songs, Irish songs, Hawaiian songs, country songs — he sang almost everything and revealed almost nothing.
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The New York Philharmonic presents the concert "Chinese New Year Celebration" on Tuesday, with Chinese folk songs alongside Puccini and Ravel (7:30 p.m.).
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The original version written by Ms. Steiner and Ms. Hawes and based on the tunes of two old folk songs, had a political edge.
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So after several years of recording pop standards with bandleader Nelson Riddle, she released an album of Mexican folk songs sung entirely in Spanish.
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This kind of influenced how I did the folk songs—how I stripped them to their melodies, put a bunch of drones in the background.
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They've been singing old Korean folk songs and unity chants meant to appeal to South Koreans, with whom their country is technically still at war.
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It's celebrated in our earliest folk songs — "this land is your land, this land is my land" — and most of us take it for granted.
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J.P. Freak-folk songs often lean toward pastorale and nostalgia, but not "Cell Games and Beyond" by the Cradle, centered on the songwriter Paco Cathcart.
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Ms. Teng, who died suddenly in 1995 at age 42, was renowned for turning traditional Taiwanese and Chinese folk songs into maudlin Western-style hits.
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Somewhere between the hypnosis of New Age, the grounded wisdom of folk songs and the chancy interplay of jazz improvisation, you'll find the Aguas Trio.
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In between movements of Mozart's "Haffner" Symphony, conducted by Mr. Langrée, the inspiring Young People's Chorus of New York City sang folk songs and spirituals.
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" The program identified the droning melodies as ancient folk songs of the Persian Gulf, but after listening for a minute, Molly Jane declared "it's psytrance!
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Sometimes, though, those silences are filled with the irresistibly plaintive tones of down-home folk songs and performed with increasing assurance as the show proceeds.
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Most of her works, set to eclectic selections of classical and world music, folk songs, popular ballads and dance music, essentially offer a series of vignettes.
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After a few years of performing some fried noise shows, Animal Collective reduced to a duo and started playing celestial, back-to-the land folk songs.
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He listened to one of his black conservatory students, Harry Burleigh, sing spirituals and studied the Louisville music teacher Mildred Hill's scholarship on black folk songs.
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The brothers, Tom and Dick Smothers, had had a successful run of appearances in nightclubs and on television variety shows with subversive takes on folk songs.
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Unlike her compositions — a lovable admixture of American folk songs, avant-garde jazz, soft rock and Romanticism — Bley, at age 82, remains a rather inaccessible figure.
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His repertoire includes music by the kora master Toumani Diabaté and the guitarist Ali Farka Touré, as well as folk songs from South Africa's Western Cape.
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The scenes with the mechanicals feature simpler, more rustic music that evokes the style of English folk songs, and the lovers' music is lush and romantic.
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And then on New Year's Day a farmer from Glarus in his ward had sung old folk songs, including a romantic courtly ballad from the middle ages.
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Dorys Bello and Eli Oviedo sat across from each other, gazing into each other's eyes, Oviedo on guitar, singing covers of folk songs and Spanish-language ballads.
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Some performers have been looking back on their own — notably the Mexican songwriter Natalia Lafourcade, whose most recent album explores Latin American folk songs in acoustic arrangements.
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But as the story progresses, the folk songs give way, and in some cases reappear as sultry French jazz, an evolution that matches that of the characters.
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A. P. Carter, the band's patriarch, had worked as a travelling salesman, during which time he roamed central Appalachia, knocking on doors and "collecting" old folk songs.
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Ben Brantley praised this "quietly perceptive portrait" of twin girls returning home and noted "the irresistibly plaintive tones of down-home folk songs" written by the Bengsons.
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At the age of 303, she released a series of electro-folk songs under her own name before writing and recording with bandmates under the name Florist.
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They have the ability to bring both laughter and tears to their listeners, Mr McCreadie says, and the splendour of folk songs lies in their simplicity and conviction.
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When it comes to his singing talents, Maftoon has been wooing the audience with his renditions of romantic folk songs, which are sung in both Dari and Pashto.
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Sitting with their backs straight, and giving the conductor their full attention, they rehearse Latvian folk songs—as do children in ordinary state schools across Latvia every week.
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Here, she joins Mr. Goldberg, a virtuoso American pianist with a knack for well-greased propulsion, in a performance of Latin American folk songs and anthems of resistance.
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Among the standouts in the airy showroom are Valdis Harrysdottir's sustainable bowls made of radish paper and Margret Gudnadottir's kooky feathered music boxes, which play Icelandic folk songs.
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There's the Child Ballads, which is a five-volume set of old the folk songs that've been collected; those are just the lyrics, the music is harder to find.
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Born in Austin, Texas, in 1915, Lomax's career began in 1933, when he tagged along with his father, John A. Lomax, to record folk songs throughout the Deep South.
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The sisters distill and interpret the folk songs of their grandparents, singing in what they call Yemenite, a nearly extinct dialect of Arabic spoken by the Jews of Yemen.
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In the years after his father's death, the younger Mr. Bernardi would listen to "An Evening With Herschel Bernardi," an album of live performances of folk songs and stories.
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"Dilly Dilly," for 11 dancers, is to seven folk songs as recorded charmingly by Burl Ives; my keenest pleasure came from listening to Ives's effortless legato, diction and calm.
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The Weather Station's music has always been about the power in silence and the space between notes as much as the resonant narratives contained in her delicate folk songs.
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For a recital at Alice Tully Hall with the sensitive pianist Julius Drake, he ties a set of folk songs to a program of Beethoven, Schubert, Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff.
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While wistful, the music shifts through moods and styles that alternately suggest tender folk songs, gently swaying dances, bursts of hushed busyness, bluesy melodies, even twangy hints of hoedown.
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More than 6 million beerheads from around Germany and across the globe flocked to Munich to sample brews, sing traditional German folk songs, start fights, and vomit on themselves.
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Though the score evokes spirituals, jazz, folk songs, ragtime and Dixieland, the elements of musical theater came through most strongly in this performance, led with brio by Stephen Lord.
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He has made fourteen albums and won seven Grammys, including one for Album of the Year, in 2014, for "Morning Phase," a collection of elegant, down-tempo folk songs.
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Closer attention reveals harpsichords, flutes (both natural and pitch-shifted into screechy loops), quotes from Blake, folk songs, and choral singing (the album cover imitates the Deutsche Grammophon label).
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The entire school community of 65 students gathered at the end of the day for an assembly to sing folk songs and other "just good feeling" songs, said Bromberg Seltzer.
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Breaking from the straight ahead folk songs that had dominated his debut album, the series of rhetorical queries and metaphysical shrug of a refrain have become Dylan's calling card. 2.
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At a recent rehearsal led by Mr Adamsons Sola's 50 singers expertly, and with a clear tone unsoiled by vibrato, navigated their way through complex arrangements of Latvian folk songs.
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The rock music introduced to her by her hippie parents, from the Hairspray soundtrack to the Beatles, was banned, but the Moonies did sing some folk songs — with a twist.
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The first half of the program included "Hymns From the Western Coast" for saxophone and choir by the Estonian composer Tonu Korvits, set to Swedish translations of Estonian folk songs.
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Ms. Munger shared with me the recorded music she hoped to re-encounter near the end of her life — including plenty of folk songs, and Bach's Mass in B minor.
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She starred in The Pirates of Penzance on Broadway, collaborated with Nelson Riddle on an interpretation of the Great American Songbook, recorded an album of Mexican folk songs, and more.
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Also on deck are the New York premieres of Renee McDonald's "Into the Blue" and Kevin Moore's "Hommage a'Dambala," as well as "You/We," an arrangement of Jamaican folk songs.
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This spring, the organization unveiled the Global Jukebox, a free, interactive web portal with recordings of more than 20023,000 folk songs from around the world that Lomax recorded or acquired.
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He says his music — folk songs on guitar, or stripped-down pop on bubbling keyboards — is evocative because his visits to the villages give the songs a sense of place.
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He was unsatisfied with the somber, sedentary folk songs he'd been making — "sad bastard music," he called it — and wanted to spring free his sense of humor, absurdity and playfulness.
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BETSAYDA MACHADO Y LA PARRANDA EL CLAVO "Loe Loa: Rural Recordings Under the Mango Tree" (Odelia) La Parranda El Clavo has been playing Afro-Venezuelan folk songs for 30 years.
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The 90-minute performance, a scholarly exploration of black history in folk songs and spirituals both traditional and contemporary, was a pinnacle of this season's American Songbook series at Lincoln Center.
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Occasionally I will play in Irish folk sessions, just in pubs with small groups of people, and it's the Irish music or English folk songs that I like, the traditional reels.
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On the other end of the spectrum is Catie Turner, 17, a genuine eccentric who auditioned with searing original comic folk songs about feminism and suggests a possible Frankie Cosmos enthusiast.
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And, in truth, it was hard for the orchestra to compete with the splendid singing of some unusual folk songs by the chorus, led by Francisco J. Núñez, its artistic director.
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For Ms. Fischer's final project for her master's degree at The Hague University in the Netherlands, she created a culinary concert, during which she cooked and served food while singing folk songs.
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Using decayed, century-old wax cylinder recordings of Wolastoqiyik traditionals as his songbook, Dutcher's titanic orchestral arrangements and towering vocal performances send these nearly-forgotten folk songs to the heavens and beyond.
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"There's nothing secret about it," Mr. Dylan said in an eloquently revealing speech last year, about how deep, deep immersion in folk songs and the blues made his songwriting possible, even inevitable.
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Ms. Jonas often bases her pieces on myths, rituals, poems, folk songs, and texts from around the world — a 503th-century Icelandic folk epic, a 1961 American poem about Helen of Troy.
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The music consists entirely of interpolations of Negro spirituals and folk songs like "Rockin' Jerusalem" and "Keep Your Eyes on the Prize," delivered in multipart harmony by the nine actors playing students.
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Ms. Eade is possessed of a deep, ink-thick voice; on "Town and Country" — a recent duo album of American folk songs and standards — she and Mr. Blake prove an excellent pair.
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"There's something cultlike about the imagery that makes me think of the Manson family singing folk songs as they leave the courtroom," said Peele, who was 7 when the nationwide gathering happened.
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The region—a misty, rain-soaked province of Spain pinched between Portugal and the Atlantic—honoured the politicians who drafted the principles of Galician self-rule in 1978 with bagpipes and folk songs.
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A Critic's Notebook article on July 12 about the Global Jukebox, an interactive web portal with recordings of more than 6,000 folk songs collected by Alan Lomax, misstated the year of his death.
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The first, which she created to accompany an outdoor artwork assembled from refuse by an artist known as Tania, mixed recognizable bits of folk songs and pop hits with bursts of electronic noise.
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The parade concluded with mariachi musicians belting out Mexican folk songs from a float covered with flowers and colored paper like the boats that cruise the canals in the south of the city.
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Still, it was important to my father that I knew I was Jewish; he spent his lunch hours at the Brooklyn Public Library learning Yiddish folk songs, which he taught me to sing.
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Mirroring the heavy mood as they said goodbye, his father, Saleh, brought out an MP3 player and played old Iraqi folk songs, amid tearful goodbyes and promises to their come back and visit soon.
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"FALLING DOWN" BY SCARLETT JOHANSSON Leave it to ScarJo to skip the typical pop star path in favor of releasing a moody, acoustic album of folk songs that featured David Bowie on backing vocals.
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If further proof were needed, Mr. Scholl provided it on Saturday evening, performing art songs and folk songs from 17th-century Britain in the intimate Board of Officers Room of the Park Avenue Armory.
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The staging, by contrast, directed by Marianne Elliott and Tom Morris, is humble and human, with folk songs by John Tams and the exquisite, handcrafted puppets created by the South African theater company Handspring.
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On a recent Saturday night at Terraza 27, a tiny club in Queens on the border between Elmhurst and Jackson Heights, the band Jarana Beat was bouncing through a set of Mexican folk songs.
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It's a familiar story, no doubt, but the stark honesty and introspection displayed in these 12 free-flowing, serene folk songs is only as common as the likes of Phil Elverum and Sufjan Stevens.
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The beautiful Inner Mongolian grassland is often described as "heaven" in our folk songs, while in my impression, many places have turned into a living hell due to the mineral mining and oil explorations.
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Ms. Oropesa, who was born in New Orleans to Cuban parents, seemed hardly able to wait to sing her concluding selection: "Siete Canciones Populares Españolas," Manuel de Falla's colorful arrangements of seven Spanish folk songs.
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That legacy lives on not only in children's books but also in concert halls: Jean Sibelius picked tales from the Finnish national epic "Kalevala," and Bela Bartok collected folk songs from the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
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In addition to the obscure Hasidic melodies, he published some 200 collections of better-known Yiddish and Israeli folk songs, spirited klezmer tunes, Sephardic melodies, cantorial classics, sorrowful songs of the Holocaust and other music.
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That legacy lives on in not only children's books but also concert halls: Jean Sibelius picked tales from the Finnish national epic "Kalevala," and Bela Bartok collected folk songs from the former Austro-Hungarian empire.
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The tour's repertoire was a mix of arias, classical religious tunes and what today we would consider folk songs, said Kristin K. Vogel, a soprano who has performed as Lind in a one-woman show.
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" Mr. Gaiman, 56, said he approached the myths as a musician might do if recording cover versions of 1950s folk songs, or as the comedians do with the central joke in the movie "The Aristocrats.
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Trained as a classical pianist and raised around the music of folk singers like Woody Guthrie, Mr. Okun recorded his own versions of folk songs before he turned to developing the music of other artists.
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THE ARTS A Critic's Notebook article on July 12 about the Global Jukebox, an interactive web portal with recordings of more than 6,000 folk songs collected by Alan Lomax, misstated the year of his death.
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His first album, "Home Again" (2012), impressed critics with its observant, soul-flecked folk songs, delivered in a rich, full-bodied voice that sounded the way drinking hot cocoa in front of a crackling fireplace feels.
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One of the two manuscripts found, "Folk Songs from Somerset", is a precursor to a published piece called "Somerset Rhapsody", Dean said, while the other, "Two Songs Without Words", has been published and is often played.
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When Jackie, drunk enough to sing one of Elton John and Lee Hall's lovely faux-folk songs for the crowd, gets to the verse that begins, "Oh, once I loved a woman," Mr. Chameroy stops dead.
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DM Stith's rendition of Gabriel Kahane's folk-mod ballad "Hard Circus Road" was delightful, as was Ms. Shaw's own performance — this time as a singer — of her setting of three folk songs with string quartet accompaniment.
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Irish folk songs, princess gowns, a harp and 20 bouquets: The soprano Aprile Millo's concert on Wednesday at Zankel Hall, her first solo program in New York in 10 years, had it all, and then some.
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We also invited Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble in and gave them Vietnamese lullabies and folk songs that everyone North and South would have recognized from that period, would recognize to this day.
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In his documentaries, his impersonal camera does not probe inner lives but simply records: the space, the movements, the soundscape (snatches of pop and folk songs, anthems, tolling bells), the flow of time and ultimately of history.
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"There's something cultlike about the imagery that makes me think of the Manson family singing folk songs as they leave the courtroom," Peele told The New York Times of why he chose to use Hands Across America.
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He pointed directly toward some of his sources: Woody Guthrie, Robert Johnson, Arthur Rimbaud, the Bible, the Beats and, above all, the anonymous writers and transmitters of folk songs who told the stories they had to tell.
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Professor Abrahams (pronounced Abrams) cast his net wide, exploring Anglo-American folk songs, jump-rope rhymes and counting rhymes, but devoted most of his scholarly energies to the African diaspora in the Caribbean and the United States.
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Parading in dirndls, chewing pretzels and singing folk songs, these political elites will celebrate a "Germanness" so seemingly playful that it is acceptable in a country that, since the Second World War, has shied away from patriotism.
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Ms. Willard, an English major, graduated from the University of Michigan in 1958 and went on to earn a master's at Stanford, with a thesis on medieval folk songs, and a doctorate at the University of Michigan.
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For Quebec-born Kater, the Canadian folk songs of her childhood and the Appalachian music she studied while attending college in West Virginia serve as touchstones; Polwart, meanwhile, draws from the musical heritage of her native Scotland.
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For the next few hours, Mr. Faraguna and his friends drank white wine and Union Svetlo beer and sang old Trieste folk songs about how life was better under the old empire ("We weren't lacking pasta and chickpeas").
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The physical act of the journey is less important to the film than its metaphoric significance, as demonstrated by scenes of Indigenous peoples communing juxtaposed against folk songs about people venturing to the city and never coming back.
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It almost feels like a joke to say—in the wake of several records of unfiltered, meandering folk songs that present a warts-and-all image of his descent into solipsism—that this is finally the real him.
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Viewers of the show vote for their favorite acts, and so far Maftoon has done well thanks to a selection of romantic folk songs that he performs in both Dari and Pashto, the two official languages of Afghanistan.
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Mr. Adams has written some of the most sophisticated and stirring choral music in modern opera; here, he most often saves it for new settings of old folk songs that take a chilling turn from boisterous to sinister.
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Professor Stuckey once said in an interview that while growing up he was most inspired by two books, Du Bois's "The Souls of Black Folk" (1903) and "Folk Songs of North America" (1960), by the ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax.
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As they approached the fields, the players were met by a crowd of about 0003 young men, some singing African folk songs, others wearing counterfeit Manchester United and Real Madrid jerseys or banging metal dinner trays with soup ladles.
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In between folk songs, a singer recalled his experience getting a D.U.I. The faces in the audience — huddled in the bookstore's patio, beneath Edison bulbs and a canopy — were young and old, bushy and clean-shaven, of all shades.
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The North said during the talks it plans to play traditional folk songs which "fit the mood for unification and are well known in both sides", as well as classical music, Lee, the South's negotiator, told a news conference.
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In an intro to the playlist, she describes it as "a bit of an odd shuffle of songs," and it does encompass a wide variety of music including road dog folk songs, soul hits, and indie rock bummer jams.
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So she did, collecting older songs like "Fire in My Eyes, " but also newer ones like "You and Bobby," premiering here, all of which demonstrate her unique knack for writing folk songs with a deep empathy for her subjects.
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Luz Elena Mendoza's Mexican heritage has long informed her songwriting: As the frontwoman of Y La Bamba, she sings in both Spanish and English, taking cues from traditional musica mexicana as well as American folk songs and dream pop.
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Originally I just did it myself, but then I started listening to some old Lomax recordings; he was a guy was obsessed with documenting folk songs, [so] he recorded these prison songs and chain gang chants and stuff like that.
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As a descendant of this world, this mindset, this way of life, Wall infuses old traditional folk songs and tunes he wrote with equal weight, moving them outside of any era and into a domain he controls every aspect of.
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It lay at the heart of his playing, in tribal chants and folk songs and especially in mbaqanga, the music of the illegal bars or shebeens where miners in the townships would go after work to get stuporous on sorghum beer.
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I'm a big fan of the Charlie Haden Liberation Music Orchestra with which I used to play sometimes in the 80s, and certainly folk songs by Woody Guthrie that were just as powerful right now as they were at the time.
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Whether it's the freak funk he made as Dinosaur L, or Love Is Overtaking Me's wide-eyed folk songs, Arthur Russell's back catalogue is so vast that there really is something for everyone to take home and make their own.
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With Ms. Gilbert, whom Mr. Hellerman knew from their days as counselors at the leftist Camp Wo-Chi-Ca in northern New Jersey, they came up with a medley of international folk songs that turned out to be a crowd pleaser.
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JON PARELES The internet and social media have facilitated a certain kind of hip-hop gentrifier — typically white — who remakes trap hits into folk songs, or cello covers, or some other reimagining that turns on its unlikeliness more than its effectiveness.
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During the talks on Monday, the North promised to play traditional Korean folk songs that "fit the mood for unification and are well known on both sides," as well as classical music, said the chief South Korean delegate, Lee Woo-sung.
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Increasingly fascinated by the possibilities of manipulating sound, he borrowed a wire recorder — an early, unwieldy ancestor of the tape recorder — from a Cairo radio station and took to the city's streets, recording folk songs, religious rites and vendors' cries.
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But then one busy night, the head sushi chef, who was also the owner — and who would sometimes sing Japanese folk songs to customers in an Orbison-esque tenor — poked his head into the kitchen and made a fateful request.
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I didn't listen after his cancellation, but I did listen a second time, and it felt super cringey to hear Moby talk about how he basically relied on African American folk songs to make a platinum album and launch his career.
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The wonder of the "Goldberg" is that it seems to darken and brighten simultaneously: a few short minutes after the cosmic sadness of the so-called "black pearl" variation, Bach unleashes the Quodlibet, in which old folk songs irreverently intermingle.
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Interstate Gospel isn't a blustering rock album or a cautiously intricate folk album or a slab of musical taxidermy; it includes rock songs and folk songs, tangled knots of riffage ("Sugar Daddy") and mournful weepers that build to wordless cathartic moments ("Leavers Lullaby").
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On "The Invisible Comes to Us," their first album for Smithsonian Folkways, the banjoist Elizabeth LaPrelle and the multi-instrumentalist Anna Roberts-Gevalt perform traditional folk songs in quietly subversive ways, with flecks of found sound and unusual percussion accenting the old verses.
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Founded 14 years ago at an avant-garde theater company in Kiev, the ensemble retools local folk songs with an ear for vernacular and folk music from across the world using instruments ranging from the Australian didgeridoo to the West African djembe.
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"I knew this was home, before we even saw the whole place," said Ms. Jancuska, who was impressed by the bustle of activity in the park — neighbors practicing tai chi, couples dancing to Chinese pop and folk songs, early-morning soccer games.
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She wasn't expecting them, after years of playing folk songs in New York and opening for her friends' band AJR, a sort of Vampire Weekend-aspiring trio of brothers with a small claim to fame thanks to a lead single that sampled SpongeBob Squarepants.
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He was the first in his immediate family to learn to read, but he grew up listening to his grandmother's stories and folk songs, and his poetry takes the musicality of that oral tradition and weds it, brilliantly, with his love of the English language.
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Bringing in daughter Ivanka to have her delightful children sing Chinese folk songs (in perfect Mandarin, said Xi) before the General Secretary of China and the second most important man in the world next to Trump was masterful choreography of extended family tradition and values.
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The most powerful German commander, General Erich Ludendorff, had had a nervous breakdown, raging at his staff, drinking heavily, and suffering panic attacks; a hastily summoned psychologist advised flowers in his office and the singing of folk songs when he woke in the morning.
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Andy Biskin's 211460 Tons (Sunday) Mr. Biskin, a clarinetist and composer with an intellectually frisky style, has recently been drawing inspiration from "The Folk Songs of North America," an important anthology by the folklorist Alan Lomax, who was his employer for a brief time.
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The cobblestoned Skadarlija district — often compared with Paris's Montmartre, and where your hotel will likely suggest that you have dinner — is filled with traditional taverns, called kafanas, where bands of five to six musicians move from table to table singing folk songs and taking requests.
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The celebration then moved to Mari Vanna, a restaurant in the Flatiron district with a heavy Russian accent, its dining room filled with porcelain Russian nesting dolls set atop a sofa, jugs of vodka and a continuous loop of folk songs from the old country.
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Aiming to break away from the amorphous Indian-bhangra-Bollywood monolith that is often projected on Desi communities, the band formed two years ago and started covering folk songs from the sub-Indian continent, but adding the garage-punk sound of their South Asian diaspora mashup.
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" By the time distant computers made their first connections in 1969, fans, especially women, were "remixing television footage to create their own fanvids, writing and editing their own zines, creating elaborate costumes, singing original folk songs, and painting images, all inspired by their favorite television series.
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He has always incorporated nuggets he comes across, from folk songs like "Scarborough Fair" and "El Condor Pasa" to vintage gospel like the Swan Silvertones' "Oh Mary Don't You Weep" and imported records like the ones that led him to South African music for his "Graceland" album.
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You could argue that the last thing the modern world needs is more white bearded men in their feelings and that's why you have people on Twitter cracking jokes about bands with "log cabin folk songs" arguing about what is and isn't "cutting edge" in 2017.
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At times, and especially during the awards portion of the evening, that made for a confusing mandate, with global folk songs pitted against choral lite-gospel, and smarmy pop-rock alongside the familiar complex multipart vocal harmonizing (with vocal percussion!) that is a cappella's public face.
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"Artists from the mainstream are looking at this kind of art," said Ms. Dervaux, adding that the Morgan's music collection of African-American folk songs and its manuscript collection of books from the Harlem Renaissance provided context for the acquisition, which will be exhibited in 2021.
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Accompanied by students from the local art school who sang and wailed the folk songs indigenous to Martinique, he loudly demanded a coffee and gazed at his own reflection in the mirror — ever the narcissist treating the native people around him as props existing only in his own drama.
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"Immersed in the rancheras, huapangos and other Mexican songs that span nearly a century, Ms. Ronstadt sounds as at home as she did singing the country-folk songs that made her a star in the late 60's and early 70s," The New York Times said in its review.
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