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  2. Contemporary folk music - Wikipedia

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    The Czech folk music is influenced by Czech traditional music an songwriters, "tramping" music, as well as by English-language country and contemporary-folk music, spirituals and traditionals, bluegrass, chanson etc. In the second half of the 20th century, all the similar genres coexisted as a protest multigenre, in contrast to the official pop ...

  3. Folk music - Wikipedia

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    The post–World War II folk revival in America and in Britain started a new genre, Contemporary Folk Music, and brought an additional meaning to the term "folk music": newly composed songs, fixed in form and by known authors, which imitated some form of traditional music. The popularity of "contemporary folk" recordings caused the appearance ...

  4. American folk music - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. World music - Wikipedia

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    The most common name for this form of music is also "folk music", but is often called "contemporary folk music" or "folk revival music" to make the distinction. [39] The transition was somewhat centered in the US and is also called the American folk music revival. [40] Fusion genres such as folk rock and others also evolved within this phenomenon.

  6. Contemporary music - Wikipedia

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    Contemporary music is whatever music is produced at the current time. Specifically, it could refer to: ... Contemporary folk music; Contemporary hit radio;

  7. List of folk music traditions - Wikipedia

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    Folk music [1] is one of the major divisions of music, now often divided into traditional folk music and contemporary folk music.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.

  8. Category:Contemporary folk music - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Contemporary folk music" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...

  9. Indie folk - Wikipedia

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    Indie folk (also called alternative folk) is an alternative genre of music that arose in the 1990s among musicians from indie rock scenes influenced by folk music. Indie folk hybridizes the acoustic guitar melodies of traditional folk music with contemporary instrumentation. The genre has its earliest origins in 1990s folk artists who displayed ...