Besides being a fine banjo picker and showman, he took an unassuming but near academic interest in folk music. |
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Incorporating various styles of rock, jazz, blues and folk music, the quintet is lead by Matthews on guitar and vocals. |
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In the years since its 1988 release, Fisherman's Blues has been acknowledged as an important staging post in the rebirth of folk music. |
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Both were fanatical about folk music and Kate imbibed their records of folk, sea shanties and Irish jigs. |
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He plays Celtic whistle, didgeridoo, panpipes, flute and bass flute in his trademark blend of Celtic, classical, jazz and folk music. |
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He cleverly weaves several themes from the opera together with elements of Argentine folk music. |
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Lowe has been kicking around the British folk music scene long enough to have influenced many of his contemporaries. |
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The piece is an artful reworking both of Hungarian folk music and Baroque recitative. |
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It was, for someone who had grown up with rock and folk music, immediately recognisable and attractive. |
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Its tranquil moments convey a nostalgic yearning common to Japanese folk music. |
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I have just experienced a renascent intrerest in the endless variegation of folk music. |
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In 1902 he met d' Indy, who became his teacher and shared his deep respect for folk music. |
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During the postwar folk music revival, rural musicians faced a similar mixture of adulation and condescension. |
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It's arguable that he was the first singer from the folk music tradition to cross over into the mainstream. |
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Other instruments used in folk music include transverse and vertical flutes, drums, cymbals, gongs, and tambourines. |
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There's so much great music in the world, from jazz, to Mozart, to rock, to French Impressionism, to folk music, the avant-garde, etc. |
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Popular folk music, tango, and national rock were back on the radio and national television to contribute to the national bonding. |
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Right from his young age, he used to play on his piano, Bach, jazz, rock, tango and folk music from Argentina. |
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From St. Louis to New York City, the Rocky Mountains and rural Washington State, folk music fans have got it made for the summertime. |
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The effect is that of a sophisticated and exotic storytelling folk music sung in the Malagasy language. |
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Carnatic music is scientifically organized, but folk music is not, so people who are not properly trained just sing out of emotion, enthusiasm. |
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There are nods to mbalax, the sound of urban Senegal, and more reflective folk music. |
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It has often been regarded, like folk music, as a genuine popular culture, in danger of extinction. |
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His great grandfather was a great folk music composer in Norway and wrote a lot of fiddle tunes. |
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Every musician has a background of classical semi-classical or folk music which enables him to compose new tunes and melodies. |
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An original sound raging from bluesy to metal to creepy folk music, this is extremely well done. |
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There is a good deal of modal harmony, taken from Scandinavian folk music, which is comforting to the ear but far from anodyne. |
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Their programme will include Irish tunes and slow airs, some Scottish tunes and Yiddish folk music! |
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Bartok used many seconds and sevenths found in monophonic Hungarian folk music. |
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Musicologists know that Stravinsky mined collections of Russian folk music for motifs. |
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And, if you're interested in a musical tie-in with this crowd, check out the reggae, bluegrass, and folk music scenes. |
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While music may have always been part of Naga life, the state has recently witnessed a sudden growth of pop bands and folk music groups. |
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At one point, general consensus would have been that the native of Winnipeg was on the expressway to a comfortable folk music existence. |
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The Voyager spacecraft carried a laser disc of Bulgarian folk music to show aliens what life is like on earth. |
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As a paragon of the virtues that folk music holds in its cultural armoury, June Tabor must surely rate as number one. |
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The Crop Over festival features costume bands, folk music, and calypso competitions. |
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The Romanian stand had a coffee bar and the Croatians entertained their guests with folk music. |
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Kuppusamy mixed Carnatic with folk music and simultaneously explained how ragas should be handled in the latter. |
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I liked the sound a lot, because I listen to a lot of non-rock music, more stripped-down stuff-country, blues, old American folk music. |
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All sorts of music will be well represented at the festival, including concerts of Irish folk music, jazz, Parisian chansons and brass bands. |
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Now in its third year, the children will perform a range of pieces from classics to folk music, based on the world-renowned Suzuki repertoire. |
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They call folk music unrefined, but that's where classical music came from. |
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He had by then co-authored several books with his father on American folk music. |
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The score deftly combines Thai folk music and French impressionism in a rhapsodic manner. |
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It also has a philharmonic orchestra and a host of annual folk music festivals held in different cities. |
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Elements of flamenco, indigenous folk music, and contemporary harmonic complexity run through Kaufman's work. |
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Was this going to be an evening of polkas or ethnic folk music at the Oddfellows Hall? |
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This frees McFerrin to experiment with musical forms ranging from Medieval polyphony to African folk music. |
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By its very nature, Irish traditional music is a folk music, simple and uncomplicated. |
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With a few exceptions the Orchestra's entire repertoire is traditional Russian folk music. |
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This is folk music with an Eastern tinge to it, done by musicians in the deep American South. |
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I have never owned or been interested in folk music, except Woody Guthrie, who transcends it. |
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And these different genres, like folk music and dance music, come out of that. |
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In the band Franco played all types of music on the accordion from Russian folk music to Beatles hits. |
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The melodeon or German accordion is a single-action button accordion, very popular for folk music. |
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I was mostly an acoustic guitar player and I listened to a lot of folk music. |
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I guess, when it all comes down to it, I just want folk music to be around still. |
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Musically, the sextet mixes punk and ska with Klezmer and Eastern European folk music. |
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When it all comes down to it, what I really want is folk music to still be around. |
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Folk music wouldn't be folk music without songs of political responsibility and social justice. |
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Scorcese managed to place the event in its true context by tracing Dylan's journey through folk music. |
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There are no simple explanations for the remarkable transformation of Celtic music from folk music to world music. |
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Most anyone with an ear for the more deranged side of folk music will find something to like. |
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No one does a better job transforming folk music into something special than Sadikova. |
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What do we learn about the burgeoning folk music scene Dylan went on to define and later monopolise? |
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It's with that in mind that Sokel plays everything from dub and reggae to pop and folk music. |
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The music accompanying the ballet will feature the style of Southeast China folk music. |
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We did some concerts together, in which I paired some folk music with the Luciano Berio folk songs. |
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It combines elements of hip-hop, reggae, funk, punk rock and even traditional Irish folk music. |
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In the project to reclaim folk music, how was the listener to hear the personal behind the fustily archetypal? |
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Performed with such brilliance, they aptly recreate genuine folk music of the era. |
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I stare at the wall-mounted television, which is depicting some German people dancing to folk music. |
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The documentary explores folk music, street music, psychedelic rock, pop, rock, and many traditional forms of music. |
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Niklas headed purposefully for the gramophone in the living room and let the sounds of cheerful Bavarian folk music fill the apartment. |
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They gracefully span an eclectically broad repertoire with songs from Motown, Portishead, Bach and Bulgarian folk music. |
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Core values were duly identified as folk music, the sea, the countryside and the Church of England. |
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Trosley's next event, an evening of Russian folk music round a campfire, is taking place on Saturday. |
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The usages are therefore many and varied in the history of Western art and folk music and in ethnomusicology. |
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His repertoire spans traditional pop classics and folk music. |
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I can not believe a nation as addicted to drinking, hunting, fighting and riotous merrymaking as the English didn't have some rousing folk music in the past. |
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In the early history of folk music research and ethnomusicology, scholars doing fieldwork were often photographed organizing their collections and making their recordings. |
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Film sings have supplanted folk music in the lives of common people. |
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They are intensely nationalistic in style, and Hubay either took the melodies directly from Hungarian folk music, or created his own echt Hungarian originals. |
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The reason folk music is so satisfying is because it is music that's thousands of years old, permutated by each person that touches it and adds another line or a melody. |
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The twang we hear as emblematic of white country music is actually the direct descendant of black folk music banjo. |
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Students heard folk music of the indigenous Peruvians played on pan pipes. |
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This sort of folk music is prominently used in the two films. |
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He remains something of a performer himself, a leading light in the folk music movement who only succumbed to car ownership to transport his band to gigs. |
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Show me a folk music audience and I'll show you the emotionally needy. |
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Promising more of his signature mix of rock, soul and folk music, the album is also said to venture into new territory, while journeying back to explore some of his roots. |
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An important nerve in reggae's musical spinal cord came directly from African American rhythm and blues and soul music and the evolving folk music movement. |
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From July 25 to 27, Fort Adams, Rhode Island will be the place to be for anyone interested in the folk music spectacle. |
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As a result, a sense of mellifluent monotony is achieved and paired with an unmistakable improvisatory quality that characterizes most Greek folk music. |
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The characteristic feature of Georgian folk music is polyphony. |
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I think of all these styles as being forms of modern urban folk music. |
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He played a few songs to warm up the crowd for the headliner, Odetta, the queen of American folk music. |
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This champion of English folk music performs ancient ballads and industrial songs, country dance tunes and political broadsides, bolstered by new songs of his own. |
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In the years since its 1988 release, Fisherman's Blues has been acknowledged as an important staging post in the rebirth of folk music, its ripples felt to this day. |
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For years this has resulted in bland programme schedules largely filled with historical dramas, folk music performances, military displays and heavily censored news shows. |
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Many composers have borrowed intervals widely present in folk music. |
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Inside Llewyn Davis follows a singer-songwriter as he navigates the folk music scene of the era. |
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Dybbuk may be the composer's toughest compositional nut to crack, a gnarled web of sound tightly woven from folk music, cantorial prayer, and serial techniques. |
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The band, whose mix of traditional folk music and country rock sounds has won them awards from as far afield as Australia and America, are a very vibrant and exciting act. |
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It spotlights the 23-year-old Bob teetering on the cusp of acoustic folk music and the mind-expanding new horizons offered by acid, free verse and electricity. |
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There was no doubt that many in the folk music scene regarded the transition to electric guitar as a betrayal and a sell-out of everything they believed in. |
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Although it was influenced linguistically by invaders and neighbours, Romanian is a Romance language, with obvious implications for the character of its folk music. |
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The finale takes on almost orchestral proportions, demonstrating the composer's wish to be associated with more than folk music and cute miniatures. |
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I was busy experimenting with folk music and composing operas. |
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Ireland has a rich folk music tradition, and ancient jigs and reels can be heard at local festivals and during informal performances at neighborhood pubs. |
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You play it by hitting the outside with a big wooden kiyak and the inside with a small osier which plays the part of the small drum, not used in Bulgarian folk music. |
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Like many other instruments of classical music, the violin descends from remote ancestors, cruder in form, that were used for folk music. |
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Vallenato, which emerged in the early twentieth century in a city known as Valledupar, has come to symbolize the folk music of Colombia. |
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Since the early 1970s, Brittany has experienced a tremendous revival of its folk music. |
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Also on a Wednesday evening a number of traditional folk music artist congregate in the popular ale drinkers pub, The Ship and Castle. |
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The Welsh triple harp today is found mainly among players of traditional Welsh folk music. |
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The album received great reviews from the folk music press in the UK and North America. |
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From folk music to classical, music has always played an important role in Italian culture. |
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Various regional styles of folk music abound in Aragon, Catalonia, Valencia, Castile, the Basque Country, Galicia, Cantabria and Asturias. |
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Lithuanian folk music belongs to Baltic music branch which is connected with neolithic corded ware culture. |
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Lithuanian folk music is archaic, mostly used for ritual purposes, containing elements of paganism faith. |
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Traditional folk music, both song and dance, was important in the agricultural communities. |
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These themes were inherited from a variety of sources, including the Tin Pan Alley pop tradition, folk music and rhythm and blues. |
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Elements from traditional Ukrainian folk music made their way into Western music and even into modern jazz. |
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Russia's large number of ethnic groups have distinctive traditions regarding folk music. |
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The Khaliji style of music, which is folk music, is popular in the country. |
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The music of Hawaii includes traditional and popular styles, ranging from native Hawaiian folk music to modern rock and hip hop. |
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Luther connected high art and folk music, also all classes, clergy and laity, men, women and children. |
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Contra dancing and country square dancing are popular throughout New England, usually backed by live Irish, Acadian, or other folk music. |
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It is a festival of traditional and contemporary folk music, song and dance. |
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Shortly thereafter, Beck explored blues and folk music further, discovering Woody Guthrie and Blind Willie Johnson. |
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Beck began as a folk musician, switching between country blues, Delta blues and more traditional rural folk music in his teens. |
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Popular music, most hymns, semipopular music, and most folk music lack subtlety. The melodies are obvious and easily comprehended. |
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Cowpunk is a subgenre of punk rock that combines New Wave with country music, folk music and blues. |
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A four-year association with the area climaxes this month when Wendy brings a Russian folk music group, the Ural Gems, to the North-East. |
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I've been listening to quite a lot of Greek folk music, after spending some time out on this Greek island called Karpathos. |
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They have also incorporated some elements of classical music, folk music, jazz and art rock into their sound. |
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He was parodying what was called in those days the folk music boom. |
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He first became aware of Morris dancing at school in South West London, largely through his interest in folk music. |
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They played classical orchestral pieces and soul music and sang choral and folk music. |
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The region is home to numerous folk clubs, many of them catering to Irish and Scottish folk music. |
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This type of folk music also includes fusion genres such as folk rock, folk metal and others. |
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The terms folk music, folk song, and folk dance are comparatively recent expressions. |
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In folk music, a tune is a short instrumental piece, a melody, often with repeating sections, and usually played a number of times. |
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Traditional folk music often includes sung words, although folk instrumental music occurs commonly in dance music traditions. |
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Narrative verse looms large in the traditional folk music of many cultures. |
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Lomax was the first prominent scholar to study distinctly American folk music such as that of cowboys and southern blacks. |
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This was the final element of the foundation upon which the early folk music revivalists constructed their own view of Americanism. |
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Prior to the 1930s, the study of folk music was primarily the province of scholars and collectors. |
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During this time folk music began to become enmeshed with political and social activism themes and movements. |
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President Franklin Roosevelt was a fan of folk music, hosted folk concerts at the White House, and often patronized folk festivals. |
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The American folk music revivalists of the 1930s approached folk music in different ways. |
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By the end of the 1930s these and others had turned American folk music into a social movement. |
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Slovene folk music in Upper Carniola and Styria also originated from the Alpine traditions. |
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The Balkan folk music was influenced by the mingling of Balkan ethnic groups in the period of Ottoman Empire. |
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An important part of the whole Balkan folk music is the music of the local Romani ethnic minority. |
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Nordic folk music includes a number of traditions in Northern European, especially Scandinavian, countries. |
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Swedish folk music is a genre of music based largely on folkloric collection work that began in the early 19th century in Sweden. |
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Beginning with the folk music revival of the 1970s, vocalists and instrumentalists have also begun to perform together in folk music ensembles. |
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Despite massive industrialization, folk music traditions have persisted in many areas until today. |
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The Canmore Folk Music Festival is Alberta's longest running folk music festival. |
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Wales has a history of folk music related to the Celtic music of countries such as Ireland and Scotland. |
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From the 1980s Capercaillie combined Scottish folk music, electric instruments and haunting vocals to considerable success. |
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From the end of the second world war until the late fifties folk music was held in low regard. |
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Following the success of The Clancy Brothers in the USA in 1959, Irish folk music became fashionable again. |
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The international success of The Chieftains and subsequent musicians and groups has made Irish folk music a global brand. |
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Oldfield has stated that his playing style originates from his musical roots playing folk music and the bass guitar. |
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Finnish folk music has undergone a roots revival in recent decades, and has become a part of popular music. |
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Notable exponents of Shetland folk music include Aly Bain and the late Tom Anderson and Peerie Willie Johnson. |
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Skye has a strong folk music tradition, although in recent years dance and rock music have been growing in popularity on the island. |
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Polish folk music was collected in the 19th century by Oskar Kolberg, as part of a wave of Polish national revival. |
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In particular, the origin of country and Western music was extensively from Ulster Scots folk music. |
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Besides Russian folk music, it also plays classical, jazz and New Age music. |
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Various styles of music are popular in the UK from the indigenous folk music of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland to heavy metal. |
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Yorkshire has a heritage of folk music and folk dance including the Long Sword dance. |
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Yorkshire has a flourishing folk music culture, with over forty folk clubs and thirty annual folk music festivals. |
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Norway has a strong folk music tradition which remains popular to this day. |
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Some of the early modern ballads, indeed, are still quite widely known, whether through school syllabuses or modern folk music. |
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Punjabi folk music imbued the play with the native ethos as the English setting of the Shakespeare's play was transposed into Punjabi milieu. |
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The folk music of England is traditionally based music, which has existed since the later medieval period. |
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Northumbria possesses a distinctive style of folk music with a flourishing and continuing tradition. |
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More recent performers of folk music include Noah and the Whale, Emma Lee Moss, Mumford and Sons and The Border Surrender. |
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The county has over twenty folk clubs and other venues hosting folk music by organisations such as Acoustic Sussex. |
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There are also annual folk music festivals at Eastbourne, Crawley and Lewes. |
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In folk music, Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and the Faroe Islands share many common aspects. |
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It some respects its development and role is similar to the second folk music revival. |
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The maritime heritage of Devon made sea shanties, hornpipes and naval or sea ballads important parts of regional folk music. |
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Yorkshire has a rich heritage of folk music and folk dance including the Long Sword dance. |
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His presence as an exclusive performer of sailor songs did much to establish sea music as a revival genre apart from or within folk music. |
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Towards the end of the nineteenth century, British musical circles had experienced a new interest in national folk music. |
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Several city pubs are well known for their live performances of folk music. |
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The traditional folk music of England has contributed to several genres, such as sea shanties, jigs, hornpipes and dance music. |
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Notable exponents of Shetland folk music include Aly Bain, Fiddlers' Bid, and the late Tom Anderson and Peerie Willie Johnson. |
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This form of music is sometimes called contemporary folk music or folk revival music to distinguish it from earlier folk forms. |
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Instead, the Manitoban quintet specializes in a bluesy brand of old-timey folk music, and injects that traditional mother load with a youthful spirit. |
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Ukrainian pop and folk music arose with the international popularity of groups and performers like Vopli Vidoplyasova, Dakh Daughters, Dakha Brakha, Ivan Dorn and Okean Elzy. |
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The most striking general characteristic of authentic ethnic Ukrainian folk music is the wide use of minor modes or keys which incorporate augmented 2nd intervals. |
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From traditional folk music, to classical and modern rock, Ukraine has produced several internationally recognised musicians including Kirill Karabits, Okean Elzy and Ruslana. |
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One of these threads was their take on folk music, which would form such essential groundwork for their later collisions with Indian music and philosophy. |
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Halsway Manor near Williton is an international centre for folk music. |
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The Hennessys are one of Wales' foremost traditional folk music groups. |
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It was concertized folk music, complete with cello, but it had spirit. |
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Dylan also led the way in blending rock with folk music styles. |
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This includes evolution of this new genre from traditional folk music, essentially contemporary folk music except that that English genre term is not commonly applied to it. |
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In the provinces, several different kinds of folk music were created. |
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Traditional folk music of European origin has been present in Canada since the arrival of the first French and British settlers in the 16th and 17th centuries. |
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Sheffield has a thriving folk music, song and dance community. |
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Many outsiders associate Scottish folk music almost entirely with the Great Highland Bagpipe, which has long played an important part in Scottish music. |
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Populous Acadian communities in the Atlantic provinces contributed their song variants to the huge corpus of folk music of French origin centred in the province of Quebec. |
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Some of these genres are considered to be traditional folk music. |
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From the late 19th century there were a series of movements that attempted to collect, record, preserve and later to perform, English folk music and dance. |
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Due to its lack of clear boundaries and a perceived lack of identity in its folk music, the English Midlands attracted relatively little interest in the early revivals. |
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A consistent definition of traditional folk music is elusive. |
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Kenya has a diverse assortment of popular music forms, in addition to multiple types of folk music based on the variety over 40 regional languages. |
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Sussex has disproportionately affected the history of English folk music. |
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In many traditions of folk music, the tunes are not written but are memorized by successive generations of musicians and passed on in what is known as the oral tradition. |
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In many societies, especially preliterate ones, the cultural transmission of folk music requires learning by ear, although notation has evolved in some cultures. |
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This led in part to British progressive folk music, which attempted to elevate folk music through greater musicianship, or compositional and arrangement skills. |
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Like all traditional music, Irish folk music has changed slowly. |
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Outside Devon and Cornwall Celtic influence on music in the West Country is much less obvious, but folk music still retains many distinctive local characteristics. |
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While the loss of traditional folk music in the face of the rise of popular music is a worldwide phenomenon, it is not one occurring at a uniform rate throughout the world. |
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Their studies expanded to include Native American music, but still treated folk music as a historical item preserved in isolated societies as well. |
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There are several collections of Irish folk music from the 18th century, but it was not until the 19th century that ballad printers became established in Dublin. |
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Items from the shanty and sea song repertoire have been brought into the repertoires of performers of folk music, rock, and Western classical music. |
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Irish traditional music has endured more strongly against the forces of cinema, radio and the mass media than the indigenous folk music of most European countries. |
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