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Old-time music is a genre of North American folk music.It developed along with various North American folk dances, such as square dancing, clogging, and buck dancing.It is played on acoustic instruments, generally centering on a combination of fiddle (see old time fiddling) and plucked string instruments, most often the banjo, guitar, and mandolin.
Canadian folk music. Alberta native Joni Mitchell, one of the most influential folk and popular music singer songwriters of the 20th century. [1] Canadian folk music has a long history, dating from the 16th and 17th centuries, mostly derived from the music of early settlers and much earlier from the music of indigenous people.
The Anthology of American Folk Music, edited by Harry Smith (1923–1991), is one of the most influential releases in the history of recorded sound.Originally issued by Folkways Records in 1952, the Anthology brought virtually unknown parts of America's musical landscape recorded in the late 1920s and early 1930s to the public's attention.
Western music is a form of music composed by and about the people who settled and worked throughout the Western United States and Western Canada. Western music celebrates the lifestyle of the cowboy on the open range, along the Rocky Mountains, and among the prairies of Western North America. The genre grew from the mix of cultural influences ...
The Anthology of American Folk Music, edited by Harry Smith (1923–1991), is one of the most influential releases in the history of recorded sound. Originally issued by Folkways Records in 1952, the Anthology brought virtually unknown parts of America's musical landscape recorded in the late 1920s and early 1930s to the public's attention.
American folk music revival. O American folk music revival foi um fenômeno nos Estados Unidos na década de 1950 até meados da década de 1960. O festival apresentou estilos musicais que tinham, em tempos atrás, contribuído para o desenvolvimento da música country, jazz e rock and roll . O revival da música folk começa a se estruturar a ...
The American Folk Music Festival, established by Jean Bell Thomas in 1930, was held almost annually in Ashland, Kentucky and at various Kentucky state parks until 1972. For five days during the first week of August each year, the Appalachian String Band Music Festival is held in Clifftop, West Virginia.
