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This is a list of folk song collections including pioneer and notable work in collecting folk songs. Many such collections were made in the 19th century. The earlier ones are often considered to be parts of the National Romanticist interests in folklore. The monumental efforts of single enthusiasts laid the foundation for the modern academic ...
In the later decades of the 19th century, the music industry became dominated by a group of publishers and song-writers in New York City that came to be known as Tin Pan Alley. Tin Pan Alley's representatives spread throughout the country, buying local hits for their publishers and pushing their publisher's latest songs.
Songs of the American Civil War (3 C, ... (1 C, 99 P) Pages in category "19th-century songs" ... The Caller (folk song)
The Highwaymen (folk band) songs (8 P) ... Pages in category "American folk songs" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 364 total.
The term American folk music encompasses numerous music genres, variously known as traditional music, traditional folk music, contemporary folk music, vernacular music, or roots music. Many traditional songs have been sung within the same family or folk group for generations, and sometimes trace back to such origins as the British Isles ...
Early 1820s music trends The Boston 'Euterpiad becomes the first American periodical devoted to the parlor song. [5]The all-black African Grove theater in Manhattan begins staging with pieces by playwright William Henry Brown and Shakespeare, sometimes with additional songs and dances designed to appeal to an African American audience. [6]
Though Appalachian and African American folk music became the basis for most of American popular music, the United States is home to a diverse assortment of ethnic groups. In the early 20th century, many of these ethnic groups supported niche record industries and produced minor folk stars like Pawlo Humeniuk , the "King of the Ukrainian ...
The Big 3 (folk group) Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys; Big Virginia Sky; Birds of Chicago; The Biscuit Burners; The Bittersweets; Black Lodge Singers; Black Twig Pickers; Blame Sally; Blood Axis; Banjo Dan and the Mid-nite Plowboys; Bonny Light Horseman (band) The Border Blasters; Borderline (band) Boyd and Wain; Breaux Brothers; The Briarwood ...