Search results for "Folk music" - New World Encyclopedia
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- The five largest religions are: Buddhism, Taoism, Folk religions ... in many areas, including cuisine and music. Today, the culture of Taiwan ...97 KB (13,790 words) - 13:13, 20 May 2024
- which remains strong in Ulster Protestant folk-memory. In the ensuing wars ... Mathematics, Science, Physical Education, Music and modern languages. ...84 KB (12,511 words) - 06:37, 16 November 2022
- the Fox, as well as various indigenous folk tales, such as the various ... Category:Art, music, literature, sports and leisure category:History ...54 KB (8,435 words) - 08:15, 4 August 2022
- Kerala's music also has ancient roots. Carnatic music dominates ... represents a more percussive style of music performed at Kshetram centered ...79 KB (10,302 words) - 22:30, 3 March 2023
- of the Kanuku Mountains in the Rupununi. Folk uses of balatá included the ... West Indies, such as food, festive events, music, sports, and so on. Guyana ...31 KB (4,442 words) - 05:41, 27 July 2023
- France has a wide variety of indigenous folk music. In the West of ... The main form of Basque folk music is called trikitixa, which is based ...109 KB (16,195 words) - 06:41, 1 April 2024
- a lot of foreign software, and sometimes music, is filtered through the ... The Irish tradition of folk music and dance is widely known. In the ...93 KB (13,999 words) - 16:07, 16 May 2024
- Mercury Theater on the Air, with original music by Bernard Herrmann, who ... conditions. The four had become national folk heroes. After their leader ...56 KB (8,968 words) - 02:19, 18 November 2022
- The music of Hungary consists mainly of traditional Hungarian folk ... of Eastern European and Middle Eastern folk music. He is considered one of ...107 KB (15,967 words) - 21:14, 9 February 2024
- is all about sex, parties, and loud music. Tom Shachtman, Rumspringa: ... conscientious objector status; their own folk-history contains tales of ...35 KB (5,323 words) - 07:31, 25 July 2023
- (University of Oslo, Norway) [http://folk.uio.no/gheierst/nandikar.pdf ... The city has a tradition of drama in the form of jatra (a kind of ...53 KB (7,578 words) - 04:08, 4 March 2023
- Duel.” Although this duel is part of folk history, several scholars ... Category:Art, music, literature, sports and leisure Category:Biography ...36 KB (6,131 words) - 19:22, 9 November 2022
- Bosnian music is a mixture of ethnic Bosniak, Croat, Serb, Greek, ... From the Ottoman era comes sevdalinka. It is a kind of emotional folk ...64 KB (9,164 words) - 19:47, 20 November 2023
- of prose make use of rhythm and verbal music. Verse is normally more systematic ... to some extent, exist in both the Turkish folk tradition and in Divan poetry). ...35 KB (5,051 words) - 18:29, 28 February 2023
- and his ears were ravished with celestial music. Touched by the grief of ... Mappillapattu. Mappillapattu is a genre of folk singing popular among the ...37 KB (6,200 words) - 00:33, 8 December 2022
- second largest after Edinburgh's. The folk music festivals in both Calgary and Edmonton are two of Canada's largest, and both cities host ...36 KB (5,234 words) - 05:03, 17 June 2023
- medieval practice of souling, when poor folk would go door to door on Hallowmas ... open in reaction to passers-by. Eerie music and sound effects are often ...37 KB (5,487 words) - 23:07, 3 August 2023
- The tradition of folk culture is still alive and well, with troupes performing music and dance at frequent festivals, both in Libya and abroad ...53 KB (7,788 words) - 11:06, 7 March 2023
- become very popular in the classical music of several countries. One ... Mazury (Masuria) district, is a Polish folk dance in triple metre with ...71 KB (10,329 words) - 17:32, 2 January 2024
- *State folk dance: Square Dance *State percussive instrument: drum ... Mexican, and Asian enclaves produce music and art of their respective ...50 KB (7,185 words) - 10:30, 11 March 2023
- had "great national writers" and folk cultural practices were officially ... groups; each with their own forms of folk music. Music in nineteenth century ...137 KB (20,217 words) - 18:16, 22 December 2022
- 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. ...53 KB (8,151 words) - 08:28, 13 March 2024
- |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 ...53 KB (7,780 words) - 16:31, 19 January 2024
- 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 ...40 KB (5,933 words) - 17:17, 4 May 2023
- 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 ...55 KB (8,334 words) - 16:48, 29 September 2021
- 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 ...49 KB (7,494 words) - 19:39, 16 April 2023
- 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 ...89 KB (12,871 words) - 15:44, 4 February 2022
- 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
- different kinds of ephemera and popular or folk literature were published ... public libraries, and to a lesser extent in music shops. Since the 1980s this ...82 KB (12,058 words) - 20:51, 27 February 2023
- by Charles Manson appears to be an urban folk tale; although some of Manson ... Category:Art, music, literature, sports and leisure category:Biography ...54 KB (8,294 words) - 21:10, 16 April 2023
- the same name and may have derived from a folk story.Schoenbaum, 166. Like ... Scholars have also identified 20,000 pieces of music linked to Shakespeare ...56 KB (8,436 words) - 10:51, 12 May 2023
- offered lectures on literature, classical music concerts and discounts on books. ... *Pete Seeger, folk singer *Artie Shaw, jazz musician *Howard Da Silva, actor ...62 KB (9,130 words) - 09:28, 10 March 2023
- the Morea (14th century), and is common in folk songs, but it must have originated ... the city's first operaurl=http://www.music.columbia.edu/~icmc97/polpot ...256 KB (33,767 words) - 18:54, 1 April 2024
- Apollo was the god of light, dance, reason, music, archery and medicine, while ... acknowledged held a measure of supremacy in folk religious circles. ...102 KB (16,134 words) - 19:54, 31 December 2023
- geography, modern foreign languages (MFL), music, art and design and the subjects ... bands like The Sex Pistols and The Clash, music in the 1970s as well as the ...123 KB (18,096 words) - 11:41, 3 May 2023
- red type in even the most obscure writings. Music from the period emphasized ... success, to synthesize realism with folk art in an attempt to realign ...95 KB (14,231 words) - 15:44, 12 June 2023
