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A German folk tale, Hansel and Gretel; illustration by Arthur Rackham, 1909. Folklore is the body of expressive culture shared by a particular group of people, culture or subculture. [1] This includes oral traditions such as tales, myths, legends, proverbs, poems, jokes, and other oral traditions.
Some festivals are used to celebrate the harvest of crops or to gather people to watch performances and enjoy music, dance and folk culture on a specific day. These folk festivals can be categorized into music, dance, traditional culture and art as well as traditional crafts. Some folk festivals have a long history and they have been passed ...
Articles relating to folk culture, cultural traditions as distinguished from modern popular culture. Subcategories This category has the following 12 subcategories, out of 12 total.
The first is the religious dimension of folk culture , or the folk-cultural dimensions of religion. The second refers to the study of syncretism between two cultures with different stages of formal expression, such as the melange of African folk beliefs and Roman Catholicism that led to the development of Vodun and Santería , and similar ...
The folk process started to become problematic, first, when it began to operate on the copyrighted and commercial products of mass culture, and the appropriation and commercialization by mass culture of folk narrative and music which, being distributed by the mass media, become the newly canonical versions of the tradition.
Articles relating to folk culture in the United States. Cultural traditions not deriving from popular culture or academia. [1 Subcategories. This category has the ...
Folk and traditional arts are rooted in and reflective of the cultural life of a community. They encompass the body of expressive culture associated with the fields of folklore and cultural heritage. Tangible folk art includes objects which historically are crafted and used within a traditional community.
Ogres are usually tall, strong, violent, greedy, and remarkably dull monsters and they originate from French culture. In folktales they are likely to be defeated by being outsmarted. [28] The Will-o'-the-wisp is a folk explanation of strange, flickering lights seen around marshes and bogs. [29]