Search results for "Folk music" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • had "great national writers" and folk cultural practices were officially ... groups; each with their own forms of folk music. Music in nineteenth century ...
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  • traditions as well as agriculture-based folk religion. The Shinto pantheon ... Category:Art, music, literature, sports and leisure Category:philosophy ...
    36 KB (6,032 words) - 22:05, 24 November 2022
  • **School of Music *Graduate School *John Glenn School of Public Affairs ... role of Serena in George Gershwin's folk opera Porgy and Bess and performed ...
    40 KB (5,731 words) - 10:21, 11 March 2023
  • largest metropolitan areas are centers of fine art, music, and theater, in marked contrast to the folk culture and native crafts of the Ozarks. Despite ...
    37 KB (5,435 words) - 11:13, 10 March 2023
  • Roma, who will often call themselves "Romany Folk." They are thought to have arrived in Britain in the sixteenth century and were descendants ...
    40 KB (5,990 words) - 02:37, 16 November 2022
  • #Sarasvati: the goddess of cultural fulfillment (knowledge, music, arts and sciences, etc.); consort of Brahma. #Gayatri: the Goddess as Mother ...
    40 KB (6,102 words) - 10:18, 26 January 2023
  • glorification of the virtues of its simple folk. In October 1909 Kuprin was ... category: Art, music, literature, sports and leisure category: Literature ...
    37 KB (5,536 words) - 16:30, 7 September 2023
  • Tolkien used fantasy in the same way fabulists have used folk and ... other minds and hands, wielding paint and music and drama. ...
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  • |religion = Daoism, Chinese folk religion }} Zhang Heng ( t=張衡|s=张衡|p=Zhāng Héng|w=Chang Heng ) (CE 78–139) was a Chinese polymath ...
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  • In Finland the swastika was often used in traditional folk art products ... category:Art, music, literature, sports and leisure category:History ...
    40 KB (5,959 words) - 00:36, 27 February 2023
  • and the Construction of an American Folk, 1930-1940. Chapel Hill: University ... * Milnes, Gerald. 1999. Play of a Fiddle Traditional Music, Dance ...
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  • journals and prompted him to begin studying music and playing the piano, which ... and Dostoevsky's early novel Poor Folk as a literary effort to critique ...
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  • though not a dance, is the tonada. Arising from music imported by the Spanish colonists, it is distinguished from the cueca by an intermediate melodic ...
    39 KB (5,549 words) - 16:43, 10 December 2023
  • clothed in some sort of spiritual body? All folk beliefs in the afterlife describe ... its halls of knowledge and invention, its music and colors so vivid and full ...
    65 KB (10,516 words) - 06:08, 16 June 2023
  • After the meeting, Percy mingled with town folk on Boston Common. According ... There was no music, no flags on both sides, even though many years ...
    65 KB (10,526 words) - 02:50, 26 September 2023
  • The dictionary of common folk culture, Nichūreki (二中歴), estimated ... Category:Art, music, literature, sports and leisure 83613279 ...
    60 KB (9,463 words) - 14:25, 27 January 2023
  • called gilgul, became popular in Medieval folk Judaism, and is found in much ... feature films, popular books, and popular music. Numerous feature films have ...
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  • Brightly colored "peasant paintings," a form of Chinese ... Category:Art, music, literature, sports and leisure Category:Art ...
    47 KB (7,130 words) - 17:04, 10 December 2023
  • period created a demand for popular art and music and resulted in artistic ... the fourteenth century and the popular folk music, with the guitar-like shamisen ...
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  • Taoism, and Buddhism) and local folk religious practice. ... of traditional Chinese art, literature, music, film, fashion, and architecture ...
    89 KB (11,967 words) - 17:55, 26 March 2023

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