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| rdfs:comment | - Folk Music is a style of music inspired by the Blues. It is a simple style of music.
- Folk music originated in England in 1837, and is largely credited to the town of Witney near Oxford. Following a poor harvest, it was decided by locals to set up a music festival, to help cheer up the towns folk. The locals invited The King of England, King George the Turd, and he decreed the festival to be music for the 'olde townes folke'. Hence the term folk music was born. Anyone could play at the festival, provided they could play a stringed instrument, and tell tales of misery, disaster, death, in a nasal whine.
- Folk music was a type of music that existed in the galaxy.
- The most common instrument used in folk music is a guitar, especially an acoustic guitar. Bagpipes are commonly used for folk music in Scotland. Styro used a harp to play folk music. He had a song he sang called "Hey Nonny Oh."
- Folk music, in the most basic sense of the term, is music by and for the common people. 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." 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.
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| abstract | - Folk Music is a style of music inspired by the Blues. It is a simple style of music.
- Folk music, in the most basic sense of the term, is music by and for the common people. 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." 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" was 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.
- Folk music originated in England in 1837, and is largely credited to the town of Witney near Oxford. Following a poor harvest, it was decided by locals to set up a music festival, to help cheer up the towns folk. The locals invited The King of England, King George the Turd, and he decreed the festival to be music for the 'olde townes folke'. Hence the term folk music was born. Anyone could play at the festival, provided they could play a stringed instrument, and tell tales of misery, disaster, death, in a nasal whine.
- Folk music was a type of music that existed in the galaxy.
- The most common instrument used in folk music is a guitar, especially an acoustic guitar. Bagpipes are commonly used for folk music in Scotland. Styro used a harp to play folk music. He had a song he sang called "Hey Nonny Oh."
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