Folk Music
Monday, February 7th, 2011It is a term coined to denote both traditional as well as contemporary music.The traditional music has been a part of the village life as well as its contemporary forms.All come under the purview of the folk music or the “roots music as it is otherwise known.The composers, lyricist and the artists are all unknown as the entire village or town folks gather to play this genre of music to pass their time as well as the age old tradition of singing the songs passed on to them.Therefore,there is no particular person but an entire society which is responsible for this kind of music.
There are many specialty genres of the folk music such as:
>> Radical folk
>> Anti folk
>> Folk punk or rogue folk
>> Indie folk
>> Techno-folk
>> Freak folk
>> Americana
Whereas the fusion genres are enumerated as:
>> Folk metal >> Progressive folk
>> Psychedelic folk and
>> Neo folk
Characteristics:
Traditional folk music has a lot of characteristics. Some of them are enumerated as follows: (more…)