Category:Folk

From WWR

Folk music, in the most basic sense of the term, is music by and for the common people.[1] The Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary defines it as "music of the common people that has been passed on by memorization or repetition rather than by writing, and has deep roots in its own culture."[2] It is still being passed on in this way today.

According to Webster's dictionary, folk music is the "traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of the people in a community". People play and sing together rather than watching others perform.

Folk music is somewhat synonymous with traditional music. Both terms are used semi-interchangeably amongst the general population; however, some musical communities that actively play living folkloric musics (see Irish traditional music and Traditional Filipino music for specific examples), have adopted the term traditional music as a means of distinguishing their music from the popular music called "folk music", especially the post-1960s "singer-songwriter" genre.

The terminology used for the Grammy Awards first included the word "folk" in 1959. In 1970 this was changed to "Ethnic or Traditional", to make a distinction from protest song or singer-songwriter. The phrase "singer-songwriter" has never been used by them. Instead they have used the phrase "male pop vocal" to include everything from James Taylor to Stevie Wonder. In 1969 the "Songwriters Hall of Fame" was set up. Their website identifies the Brill Building songwriters as the earliest singer-songwriters. In Europe, however, there is some awareness that Jacques Brel was an important pioneer of angst-ridden confessional songs, years before Carole King was successful.

Request a music show of Folk music

#	Song	Artist	Image	Album	Length	Played count	Last Played	Overall	You	Tags	Single Request
1	Back Porch Of Glory	Joel Mabus		Six Of One	3:37	11	May 8th, 2008	10 votes	You have to login to give your opinion about songs.	Dance / Folk / Acoustic guitar / Solo vocalist / Acoustic
2	I Like To	Fred Moolten		No Other Prize	4:14	4	Mar 28th, 2006	0 votes	You have to login to give your opinion about songs.	Folk / Surreal
3	Fallin'	Fred Steffen		The Apartment Tapes	3:24	36	Feb 26th, 2008	11 votes	You have to login to give your opinion about songs.	Guy with guitar / Folk / Acoustic guitar / Home / Solo vocalist / Acoustic
				Total Time	11:15

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