Folk music

What type of music has simple rhythms to accompany the melody? Repetition to support improvisation and contrast within the melody? Or a homophonic and thin texture to allow the soloist to shine? If you answered Jazz and Nordic folk music to any of these questions then you are correct! Music of the World did a special study to find ties between Nordic folk music and Jazz. We talked to two musicians about their music and we learned that these two genres of music are more alike than they seem.

The Evolution of Folk Music Vocals By its definition, folk music technically refers to indigenous forms of music created by local, regional or native populations as a way of engaging in cultural expression. This means that at its core, folk music is not intended to command a commercial value nor is it necessarily folk music by definition once a form has been co-opted by an outside culture. However, this is also a definition for folk which has long been rendered obsolete by the aesthetic and vocal

The Relevancy of Ethnomusicology to the Study of British Folk Music Ethnomusicology has an image problem. Insofar as anyone has heard of ethnomusicologists at all, there is a fairly common feeling (and not unjustified, bearing in mind what ethnomusicologists collectively seem to do) that ethnomusicology is, exclusively, the study of non-Western musics. Actually, this isn't so. Ethnomusicologists study Western traditions also, albeit not in huge numbers in Britain – but even here, our sparseness

Scottish folk music also traditional Scottish music is music that uses the forms that are identified as part of traditional Scottish music. There is evidence that there is a growing culture of popular music in the late medieval Scotland, but the only song with a melody to survive from this period is "Pleugh Song". After the Reformation, the tradition of popular secular music continued, despite efforts by Kirk, especially in the lowlands, to suppress dancing and events such as weddings cent. The first

Every culture has some tradition of music. Music is a part of both folk and popular culture traditions, it can be utilized to illustrate the differences in the origin, diffusion, and distribution of folk and popular culture. Music reflects a country's ethnic population through a diverse array of styles. Folk and popular music shows the distinction in people's everyday lives. The more developed a country is the more likely that MDC will have popular music and the less developed a country is the more

revolution. Since the 20th century, Tuareg tribes across the region have risen against Nigerian and Malian authorities when their voices failed to be heard to guard their independence and personal freedoms. During these events, traditional Sahelian folk music transformed into a revolutionary guitar driven style called al-guitara to convey messages inspiring the resistance and the nationalist political movement known as tanekra. Neighbor powers pursued mineral wealth and territory; yet, the Tuareg resisted

On July 25, 1965 at the Newport Music festival Ronnie Gilbert announced bob Dylan to the audience “And here he is…take him, you know him, he’s yours.” Bob Dylan accompanied by guitarist Al Kooper and The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, began to play “Maggie’s Farm” in an electrified form. The crowd also became electrified booing and yelling loud enough to drown the sound of the Bob Dylan and all the musicians. The fans did not know that six weeks earlier, Bob Dylan had recorded the classic hit “Like

Hungarian Peasant and Folk Music I. General confusion about Hungarian folk music. Gypsy music Peasant music - the real Hungarian folk music - is not Gypsy music. Peasant music certainly had influence on the songs and playing of gypsies who lived in Hungary and performed in ensembles, though. Gypsy music used to be the basis of all generalizations about Hungarian music. It was Ferenc Liszt's monumental error to state that Gypsy music is the creation of gypsies. The so called 'gypsy scale' points

don't know what stylistic similarities they have that make me enjoy them, but if the music sounds good and stirs emotion within me then I’ll listen to it. Usually one artist or song can send me into a deep dive of the genre which ends in many albums being added to the collection. While listening to Bob Dylan’s Highway 61 Revisited, I was lead through countless hours of Classic Rock as well as acoustic folk music, which spurred me to listen to Dylan’s other works. Recently Chance the Rapper’s masterpiece

Introduction The American folk music legend Sixto Diaz Rodriguez known as Rodriguez. A Motown session musician Dennis Coffey, compared him to the Godfather of socially conscious rock, Bob Dylan. Rodriguez is a Mexican American, born in Detroit, U.S.A in 1942. His parents were working class Mexicans that immigrated to Detroit to work for the automobile companies that were offering large salaries at the time. In this period the Mexican immigrants in America especially in this area of Detroit were