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Music in History: The Evolution of an Art. New York: American Book Company. Ritchie, Fiona (2004). The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to Celtic Music. New York: Berkley Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-399-53071-5. Nettl, Bruno (1965). Folk and Traditional Music of the Western Continents. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall. OCLC 265458368.
Music education in Europe (8 C) European folk music (29 C) Music and the European Union (1 C, 6 P) Eurovision Song Contest (12 C, 20 P)
There are many styles of folk music, all of which can be classified into various traditions, generally based around some combination of ethnic, religious, tribal, political or geographic boundaries. North, [2] Central, [3] South American [4] and the Caribbean; Asia: [5] East, Southeast, Northern, Central, Caucasus and South Asia; Europe ...
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 ...
Irish folk songs (11 C, 154 P) Israeli folk songs (7 P) Italian folk songs (2 C, 14 P) J. Jamaican folk songs (1 P) Japanese folk songs (20 P) L. Latvian folk songs ...
European folk music (29 C) F. Folk festivals in Europe (7 C, 1 P) Finnish folk culture (4 C, 2 P) European folklore (26 C, 63 P) French folk culture (2 C, 1 P) G.
Pages in category "Folk music by country" The following 75 pages are in this category, out of 75 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. + Alpine folk music;
Folk music is sometimes divided into several spheres of geographic influence, a classification system of three regions, southern, central and northern, proposed by Alan Lomax in 1956 [42] and often repeated. Additionally, Curt Sachs proposed the existence of two quite distinct kinds of folk music in Europe: continental and Mediterranean. [43]