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18 mag 2024 · Ballad, short narrative folk song, whose distinctive style crystallized in Europe in the late Middle Ages and persists to the present day in communities where literacy, urban contacts, and mass media have little affected the habit of folk singing. The term ballad is also applied to any narrative.
1 giorno fa · Traditional folk music has had a significant influence on contemporary music, with many artists drawing inspiration from the sounds and themes of traditional folk music. In the 1960s, the folk music revival brought traditional folk music to a wider audience, with artists like Bob Dylan and Joan Baez incorporating elements of traditional folk music into their own songs.
23 mag 2024 · Irish traditional music (also known as Irish trad, Irish folk music, and other variants) is a genre of folk music that developed in Ireland. In A History of Irish Music (1905), W. H. Grattan Flood wrote that, in Gaelic Ireland, there were at least ten instruments in general use.
16 mag 2024 · New Analysis of Folk Songs Finds Similarities around the World | Scientific American. May 16, 2024. 4 min read. New Folk Song Analysis Finds Similarities around the World. Across the globe,...
5 giorni fa · blues, secular folk music created by African Americans in the early 20th century, originally in the South. The simple but expressive forms of the blues became by the 1960s one of the most important influences on the development of popular music—namely, jazz, rhythm and blues, rock, and country music—throughout the United States. Form
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- The blues is a form of secular folk music created by African Americans in the early 20th century, originally in the South. Although instrumental ac...
- In the 19th century the English phrase blue devils referred to the upsetting hallucinations brought on by severe alcohol withdrawal. This was later...
- The origins of the blues are poorly documented, but it is believed that after the American Civil War (1861–65), formerly enslaved African Americans...
- In the early 20th century the blues (among several other popular genres of music) was considered seductive and destructive by parents and clergy wh...
- The blues has a distinct melancholic and somber tone, which is achieved through vocal techniques such as melisma, rhythmic techniques such as synco...
22 mag 2024 · music, art concerned with combining vocal or instrumental sounds for beauty of form or emotional expression, usually according to cultural standards of rhythm, melody, and, in most Western music, harmony. Both the simple folk song and the complex electronic composition belong to the same activity, music. Both are humanly engineered ...
2 giorni fa · Popular or folk styles of music in non-Western countries varied from culture to culture, and period to period. Different cultures emphasised different instruments, techniques, singing styles and uses for music. Music has been used for entertainment, ceremonies, rituals, religious purposes and for practical and artistic communication.
