Search results for "Folk music" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • personal feelings, which may or may not be set to music. ... a poem which has been written to be set to music. A poem's particular ...
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  • nature of carnatic music, Tamil folk music tends toward the exuberant ... India: A Comprehensive Study of Indian Folk Music and Culture, Vol. 11 (2004 ...
    56 KB (8,191 words) - 16:28, 13 January 2024
  • been joined by tourism, technology, film, music, and finance. ... based music. Its traditional (or folk) music is Scottish in character ...
    28 KB (4,053 words) - 10:08, 11 March 2023
  • The folk music incorporates multiple influences in a syncretic fashion, including English contredanse, polka and mazurka; French folk and pop; ...
    23 KB (3,343 words) - 19:52, 21 April 2023
  • whose blues and rhythm and blues-infused music propelled them to the heights ... through the first half of the 1970s, music critics had grown increasingly ...
    30 KB (4,791 words) - 17:26, 30 April 2023
  • against the commercialism of the Nashville music scene and reached his greatest ... the Grand Ole Opry. Tiring of the Nashville music scene, he retired temporarily ...
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  • ==Folk music and protest songs== [[Image:Wobbly boy.jpg|thumb|350px ... present time. In the 1960s, the American folk music revival in the United States ...
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  • Latin term suggesting "uneducated country folk"). ... them apart from historical rural (paganus) folk religion. The Íslenska Ásatrúarfélagið ...
    24 KB (3,484 words) - 10:58, 11 March 2023
  • allegory, the story is steeped in Chinese folk religion and Buddhist and ... the West has a strong background in Chinese folk religion, Chinese mythology ...
    24 KB (3,989 words) - 01:59, 8 September 2022
  • as symphonies, concertos, oratorios, piano music, and chamber music. ... revival and a renewal of respect for sacred music in the era when feeling and ...
    31 KB (4,782 words) - 17:14, 26 March 2024
  • The music of Guinea-Bissau is usually associated with the polyrhythmic ... fuses about ten of the country's folk music traditions. Tina and tinga ...
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  • language, their own sagas, their own dances, music and customs. ... === Music === [[Image:Faroese folk dance club from vagar.jpg|thumb ...
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  • "sangeet") meaning "music," and "-tar," ... steel strings and are widely used in folk music, blues and rock and roll ...
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  • There is a folk saying in Turkey that "Conversations without ... social activity with kids running around, music playing, and lively conversation ...
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  • modern, deconstructionist era to deride the music of the late Romantic period ... overriding narrative in much of Mahler’s music is the poetic idea that the ...
    43 KB (6,581 words) - 23:49, 26 July 2023
  • Anonymous works such as sacred texts and folk tales may lack an obvious title: for instance, the Bible, Gilgamesh, Beowulf or the Chanson de ...
    12 KB (1,766 words) - 19:17, 22 August 2023
  • "It Hurts Me Too." James' music was characterized by his ... * 1967 Original Folk Blues (Kent 5022) * 1967 I Need You (Sphere ...
    13 KB (2,113 words) - 17:34, 13 February 2024
  • art encompasses all facets of fine art, folk art and performance art. Porcelain ... Category:Art, music, literature, sports and leisure Category:Art ...
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  • been a vitality and simplicity taken from folk culture as well as the beauty ... may live on in some of the old Swedish folk music. Sweden has a significant ...
    40 KB (5,890 words) - 20:41, 17 March 2024
  • Information: It originated from a Chinese folk legend concerning two ... provided opportunities for farmers, fisher-folk and mountain dwellers to exchange ...
    16 KB (2,547 words) - 16:54, 7 November 2022

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