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This is a list of folk musicians, sorted by country, with some sub-categories based on region, style or gender. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Woody Guthrie is best known as an American singer-songwriter and folk musician whose musical legacy includes hundreds of political, traditional and children's songs, ballads and improvised works. He frequently performed with the slogan This Machine Kills Fascists displayed on his guitar. His best-known song is "This Land Is Your Land".
Cotten, a guitar and banjo player who developed the "Cotten style" of guitar fingerpicking, released her first album, Freight Train and Other North Carolina Folk Songs and Tune, in 1958 with the help of Mike Seeger, which also illuminates the use of guitars tuned to open keys, another common element found in folk music. [7] Odetta, who is known ...
In folk music, a tune is a short instrumental piece, a melody, often with repeating sections, and usually played a number of times. [15] A collection of tunes with structural similarities is known as a tune-family. America's Musical Landscape says "the most common form for tunes in folk music is AABB, also known as binary form." [16] [page needed]
Scholars have classified music as "popular" based on various factors, including whether a song or piece becomes known to listeners mainly from hearing the music (in contrast with classical music, in which many musicians learn pieces from sheet music); its appeal to diverse listeners, its treatment as a marketplace commodity in a capitalist ...
A traditional singer, also known as a source singer, is someone who has learned folk songs in the oral tradition, usually from older people within their community.. From around the beginning of the twentieth century, song collectors such as Cecil Sharp went to rural areas to collect traditional songs.
Folk-pop incorporates the sounds of the acoustic guitar and banjo of traditional folk music and combines it with the more electronic and synth beats of today's pop genre. [1] The folk genre is recognized for its simple melodies, story-telling nature, and cultural themes and messages, while pop music is recognized by a repetitive but catchy chorus and fast-paced tempos.
A folk club is a regular event, permanent venue, or section of a venue devoted to folk music and traditional music.Folk clubs were primarily an urban phenomenon of 1960s and 1970s Great Britain and Ireland, and vital to the second British folk revival, but continue today there and elsewhere.