Folk music may include most indigenous music. For example, the Grammy Award previously used the terms "traditional music" and "traditional folk" for folk music that is not contemporary folk music. Although the term is usually only descriptive, in some cases people use it as the name of a genre. Music in this genre is also often called traditional music. In these terms, folk music may be considered part of a "schema comprising four musical types: 'primitive' or 'tribal' 'elite' or 'art' 'folk' and 'popular'."
Lloyd rejected this in favor of a simple distinction of economic class yet for him, true folk music was, in Charles Seeger's words, "associated with a lower class" in culturally and socially stratified societies. Folk music was already, ".seen as the authentic expression of a way of life now past or about to disappear (or in some cases, to be preserved or somehow revived)," particularly in "a community uninfluenced by art music" and by commercial and printed song. One widely used definition is simply "Folk music is what the people sing." įor Scholes, as well as for Cecil Sharp and Béla Bartók, there was a sense of the music of the country as distinct from that of the town. Such definitions depend upon "(cultural) processes rather than abstract musical types.", upon " continuity and oral en as characterizing one side of a cultural dichotomy, the other side of which is found not only in the lower layers of feudal, capitalist and some oriental societies but also in 'primitive' societies and in parts of 'popular cultures'". the fashioning and re-fashioning of the music by the community that give it its folk character." One meaning often given is that of "old songs, with no known composers," another is that of music that has been submitted to an evolutionary "process of oral transmission. Folk music may tend to have certain characteristics but it cannot clearly be differentiated in purely musical terms. Some do not even agree that the term folk music should be used. Though it is understood that folk music is the music of the people, observers find a more precise definition to be elusive. The term further derives from the German expression volk, in the sense of "the people as a whole" as applied to popular and national music by Johann Gottfried Herder and the German Romantics over half a century earlier. They are extensions of the term folklore, which was coined in 1846 by the English antiquarian William Thoms to describe "the traditions, customs, and superstitions of the uncultured classes". The terms folk music, folk song, and folk dance are comparatively recent expressions. Traditional folk music Traditional folk music English it shares the same name, and it often shares the same performers and venues as traditional folk music. While contemporary folk music is a genre generally distinct from traditional folk music, in U.S. This type of folk music also includes fusion genres such as folk rock, folk metal, and others. Smaller, similar revivals have occurred elsewhere in the world at other times, but the term folk music has typically not been applied to the new music created during those revivals. This form of music is sometimes called contemporary folk music or folk revival music to distinguish it from earlier folk forms. This process and period is called the (second) folk revival and reached a zenith in the 1960s. Starting in the mid-20th century, a new form of popular folk music evolved from traditional folk music. The term originated in the 19th century, but folk music extends beyond that. It has been contrasted with commercial and classical styles. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted orally, music with unknown composers, music that is played on traditional instruments, music about cultural or national identity, music that changes between generations (folk process), music associated with a people's folklore, or music performed by custom over a long period of time. Some types of folk music may be called world music. Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival.
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