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5 days ago · Folk music, type of traditional and generally rural music that originally was passed down through families and other small social groups. Typically, folk music, like folk literature, lives in oral tradition; it is learned through hearing rather than reading.
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3 days ago · The title track of Chris Castle’s new album has the kind of folk-country-rock amalgam that signifies many of the roots of this music that we call Americana – multi-layered storytelling with hints of deeper meanings that,
5 days ago · Country (also called country and western) is a music genre originating in the southern regions of the United States, both the American South and the Southwest. First produced in the 1920s, country music is primarily focused on singing stories about working-class and blue-collar American life.
1 day ago · William Crotch's label, ‘national music’, provides another lens through which we might analyse eighteenth-century tunebooks. But, once again, studies of ‘national music’, ‘country dance tunes’ or ‘Scotch airs’, among other labels, rarely focus on the act of collecting or the ways in which collectors categorized the tunes they found.
6 days ago · Music resources. One of the most comprehensive online reference resource for all aspects of music, Oxford Music Online is the gateway to Grove Music Online, and also allows searching of The Oxford Dictionary of Music and The Oxford Companion to Music.
5 days ago · Rock, form of popular music that emerged in the 1950s and that by the end of the 20th century was the world’s dominant form of popular music. It originated in the United States and spread to other English-speaking countries and across Europe in the 1960s.
2 days ago · Wagon Wheel’s success has showcased the enduring appeal of folk and Americana music, helping to reignite interest in the genre among a new generation of listeners. It has also inspired aspiring musicians to explore and incorporate traditional elements into their own music.
