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folk in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Folk or Folks may refer to: Nation People Folklore Folk art Folk dance Folk hero Folk horror Folk music Folk...

Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk...

Folk rock is a fusion genre of rock music with heavy influences from English and American folk music.[better source needed] It arose in the United States...

In China, folk Protestantism had its origins with the Taiping Rebellion. Chinese folk religion, folk Hinduism, folk Christianity, and folk Islam are examples...

taking actions for folk beliefs, including folk religion, and the forms and rituals of celebrations such as festivals, weddings, folk dances, and initiation...

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...

In folkloristics, folk belief or folk-belief is a broad genre of folklore that is often expressed in narratives, customs, rituals, foodways, proverbs...

Folk Victorian is an architectural style employed for some homes in the United States and Europe between 1870 and 1910, though isolated examples continued...

is the folk religion and syncretic elements present in the Eastern Orthodox communities. It is a subgroup of folk Christianity, similar to Folk Catholicism...

Folk costume, also known as traditional dress, traditional attire, folk attire, or regalia is clothing of an ethnic group, nation or region, and expresses...

folklore, usually part of their oral tradition. When sung, folk poetry becomes a folk song. Folk poetry in general has several characteristics. It may be...

A folk dance is a dance that reflects the life of the people of a certain country or region. Not all ethnic dances are folk dances. For example, ritual...

and black gangs from Chicago to join. All gangs that are members of the Folk Nation represent their allegiance by utilization of the Star of David, the...

Folk Catholicism can be broadly described as various ethnic expressions and practices of Catholicism intermingled with aspects of folk religion. Practices...

Folk horror is a subgenre of horror film and horror fiction that uses elements of folklore to invoke fear and foreboding. Typical elements include a rural...

mentioned frequently in folk songs, folk tales and other folklore; and with modern trope status in literature, art and films. The folk hero is set apart from...

Cunning folk, also known as folk healers or wise folk, were practitioners of folk medicine, helpful folk magic and divination in Europe from the Middle...

Nicholas Alexander Folk (born November 5, 1984) is an American professional football placekicker for the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League...

Folk-pop is a broad musical fusion genre that includes contemporary folk songs with pop arrangements, and pop songs with intimate, acoustic-based folk...

A folk healer is an unlicensed person who practices the art of healing using traditional practices, herbal remedies and the power of suggestion. The term...

American folk revival Americana British folk revival Cajun music Celtic music Chalga Corrido Creole music Filk Folk noir Folk pop Folk rock British folk rock...

Anti-folk (sometimes spelled antifolk) is a genre of folk music that emerged in the 1980s in New York City. It was founded by the musician, author, and...

from folk music), had instinctively or consciously striven to develop widely and universally the musical world of the folk song. Folk poetry and folk music...

Folk metal is a fusion genre of heavy metal music and traditional folk music that developed in Europe during the 1990s. It is characterised by the widespread...

Folk art covers all forms of visual art made in the context of folk culture. Definitions vary, but generally the objects have practical utility of some...

Folk memory, also known as folklore or myths, refers to past events that have been passed orally from generation to generation. The events described by...

Folk punk (originally known as rogue folk) is a fusion of folk music and punk rock, particularly characterized by a folk-inspired sound blended with punk-inspired...

Turbo-folk (Serbian Cyrillic: турбо-фолк) is a subgenre of contemporary South Slavic pop music that initially developed in Serbia during the 1990s as a...

Folk saints are dead people or other spiritually powerful entities (such as indigenous spirits) venerated as saints, but not officially canonized. Since...

Folk etymology is a change in a word or phrase resulting from the replacement of an unfamiliar form by a more familiar one through popular usage. The form...

Folkers is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: Karl August Folkers (1906–1997), American biochemist Lambert Folkers (died 1761)...

Traditional medicine (also known as Indigenous medicine or folk medicine) refers to the knowledge, skills, and practices rooted in the cultural beliefs...

Psychedelic folk (also known as acid folk) is a loosely defined form of psychedelic music that originated in the 1960s. It retains the largely acoustic...

Chinese folk religion or folk beliefs, comprises a range of traditional religious practices of Han Chinese, including the Chinese diaspora. This includes...

Freak folk is a subgenre of psychedelic folk associated with the 2000s New Weird America movement and used to describe the work of artists such as Joanna...

so queer as folk in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Queer as Folk may refer to: Queer as Folk (British TV series), 1999–2000 Queer as Folk (2000 TV series)...

A folk wrestling style is any traditional style of wrestling, which may or may not be codified as a modern sport. Most cultures have developed regional...

affiliation (Pew Research Center 2023) No religion (93.0%) Buddhism (3.70%) Folk beliefs (0.20%) Christianity (1.40%) Islam (1.30%) Other (0.30%) Religious...

Neofolk (originally known as apocalyptic folk) is a music genre that originally emerged during the 1980s through the British post-punk and industrial music...

Folk linguistics consists of statements, beliefs, or practices concerning language which are based on uninformed speculation rather than based on the scientific...

Folk jazz is a musical style that combines traditional folk music with elements of jazz, usually featuring richly texturized songs. Its origins can be...

Folk House may refer to: Blidworth Welfare F.C., formerly named Folk House Old Boys F.C. (1926–1982) Folk house, a style of house music China Folk House...

term American folk music encompasses numerous music genres, variously known as traditional music, traditional folk music, contemporary folk music, vernacular...

The Folk classification, in geology, is a technical descriptive classification of sedimentary rocks devised by Robert L. Folk, an influential sedimentary...

Contemporary folk music refers to a wide variety of genres that emerged in the mid-20th century and afterwards which were associated with traditional folk music...

Poor Folk (Russian: Бедные люди, romanized: Bednyye lyudi), sometimes translated as Poor People, is the first novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky, written over...

Folk science, also known as "folk knowledge" or "folk classification" describes ways of understanding and predicting the natural and social world, without...

A folk instrument is a traditional musical instrument that has remained largely restricted to traditional folk music, and is not usually used in the classical...

selchies. Selkies are sometimes referred to as selkie folk (Scots: selkie fowk), meaning "seal folk". Selkies are mainly associated with the Northern Isles...

back' ancient sites". The Telegraph. "Woden's Folk - Honour and Loyalty: Woden Folk-Religion". Woden's Folk. White 2017, p. 254. White 2021, p. 139. Blain...

Folk dances of Rajasthan represent the rich cultural heritage and vibrant traditions of the Indian state of Rajasthan. These dances are performed on various...

Queer as Folk is a 1999 British television series that chronicles the lives of three gay men living in Manchester's gay village around Canal Street. Initially...

Folk psychology, commonsense psychology, or naïve psychology, is the ordinary, intuitive, or non-expert understanding, explanation, and rationalization...

The folk music of England is a tradition-based music which has existed since the later medieval period. It is often contrasted with courtly, classical...

have a single origin but are rather a collection of folk beliefs from disparate sources. Various folk theories about the origins of fairies include casting...

Folkes or ffolkes is a surname, and may refer to: Folkes (foundry), foundry from the United Kingdom established in 1697 Folkes Brothers, Jamaican mento...

Fairy Folk is a 2024 Hindi-language fantasy drama film written and directed by Karan Gour and produced by Annukampa Harsh, Siddharth Bhatia, Karan Gour...

A folk taxonomy is a vernacular naming system, as distinct from scientific taxonomy. Folk biological classification is the way people traditionally describe...

கருப்பசாமி; Malayalam: കറുപ്പണ്ണസാമി), is a guardian deity (kaval deivam) in Tamil folk religion, worshipped primarily in Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Sri Lanka, Malaysia...

Kate Folk is an American author of short stories, novels and essays. Her book of short stories, Out There, was published in 2022, was a finalist for the...

"The House of the Rising Sun" is an American traditional folk song, sometimes called "Rising Sun Blues". It tells of a person's life gone wrong in the...

Folk Bitch Trio is an Australian musical trio. The trio consists of Grace Sinclair, Jeanie Pilkington, and Heide Peverelle. The trio began in 2020 in Melbourne...

folk (Holzleute, "wood folk", German: [ˈhɔltsˌlɔɪ̯tə]) or forest folk (Waldleute, "forest-folk", German: [ˈvaltˌlɔɪ̯tə]), are a class of fairy-folk,...

Look up folkism in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Folkism may refer to: Folkism (Nigerian theatre), a movement in Nigerian literature Ideology of Folkspartei...

as Folk is a drama television series created for Peacock by Stephen Dunn. It is a re-imagining of the Channel 4 1999 British TV series Queer as Folk that...

This article discusses the role of folk music in the career of the composer Joseph Haydn (1732–1809). The term "folk music" is used in different ways;...

Folk theorem or folklore theorem may refer to: Mathematical folklore, theorems that are widely known to mathematicians but cannot be traced back to an...

‹ The template Infobox religion is being considered for merging. › The Tai folk religion, Satsana Phi (Lao: ສາສະໜາຜີ, Thai: ศาสนาผี; /sàːt.sa.nǎː.pʰǐː/)...

Indian folk dances, which typically consist of a few simple steps, are performed throughout the world to celebrate a new season, childbirth, weddings,...

visited museums in the world, with more than 2 million visitors in 2018. The Folk Branch of the museum is at the Bei family ancestral temple near Lion Grove...

the Woodland Folk (1983, Dean, ISBN 978-0603003431) The Woodland Folk Meet the Gnomes (1983, Dean, ISBN 978-0603003479) The Woodland Folk Meet the Giants...

Austrian folk dancing is mostly associated with Schuhplattler, Ländler, polka and waltz. However, there are other dances such as Zwiefacher, Kontratänze...

The Folk Crusaders (Japanese: ザ・フォーク・クルセダーズ, Hepburn: Za Fōku Kurusedāzu), also known as simply Fōkuru (フォークル), was a Japanese folk group, popular in...

Folkal Point are a folk and folk rock band from Bristol, England which was active throughout the early 1970s. The band was formed in 1971 and released...

"La Bamba" (pronounced [la ˈβamba]) is a Mexican folk song, originally from the state of Veracruz. The song is best known from a 1958 adaptation by Ritchie...

The Roud Folk Song Index is a database of around 250,000 references to nearly 25,000 songs collected from oral tradition in the English language from all...

The Folk Implosion is an American band founded in the early 1990s by Lou Barlow and John Davis. It was initially a side-project started by Barlow to explore...

Folk devils are groups portrayed in folklore or the media as outsiders and deviant, and who are blamed for crimes or other sorts of social problems. The...

Chris Evans Folk (1930–2010) served in the office of School Community Relations for the Charlotte Mecklenburg County Schools during desegregation, in North...

Folk + or Folk Plus is a music channel that broadcasts Albanian folklore music of the Albanian-speaking regions. It broadcasts daily for 24 hours exclusively...

The folk guerrilla concerts were folk music concerts in Shinjuku station, Shinjuku, Tokyo, held by anti-Vietnam War activists in 1969. The people who...

Progressive folk is a style of contemporary folk that adds new layers of musical and lyrical complexity, often incorporating various ethnic influences...

The American folk music revival began during the 1940s and peaked in popularity in the mid-1960s. Early folk music performers include Woody Guthrie, Lead...

Urban folk or city folk may refer to: Folk music from any urban cultural tradition (as opposed to country music) CityFolk Festival, an annual music festival...

Americana/Folk Albums (formerly Folk Albums) is a music chart published weekly by Billboard magazine which ranks the top selling "current releases by traditional...

country music. Rock also drew strongly from genres such as electric blues and folk, and incorporated influences from jazz and other styles. Rock is typically...

W. Anders Folk is an American attorney who served as Acting United States Attorney for the District of Minnesota in 2021. A native of Minnesota, he has...

Folk communication (from the Portuguese folkcomunicação), also rendered as folk communication, is a communication theory concept referring to the expression...

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...

Woodcraft Folk is a UK-based educational movement for children and young people. Founded in 1925 and grown by volunteers, it has been a registered charity...

Vietnamese folk religion (Vietnamese: tín ngưỡng dân gian Việt Nam) is a group of spiritual beliefs and practices adhered to by the Vietnamese people....

The Folk of Gloucester is a community centre which is housed in three of the oldest buildings in the city of Gloucester, two Tudor merchant's house and...

Norske Folk was a life insurance company based in Norway. It was founded in 1917. In 1984 it started a cooperation with Norges Brannkasse named UNI Forsikring...

Gregory Dane Brown (born July 2, 1949) is an American folk singer-songwriter and guitarist from Iowa. Brown was born into a musical family, and his father...

Armenian folk music is a genre of Armenian music. It usually uses the duduk, the kemenche, and the oud. It is very similar to folk music in the Caucasus[citation...

the Corded Ware culture of Central Europe. From about 2400 BC the Beaker folk culture expanded eastwards, into the Corded Ware horizon. In parts of Central...

The Highwaymen were an American 1960s "collegiate folk" group. The quintet's version of "Michael, Row the Boat Ashore", a 19th Century African-American...

Folk Den is a folk music website founded in 1995 by Roger McGuinn, former front man of The Byrds. Hosted at the University of North Carolina at Chapel...

American folk, blues, jazz and ragtime with British folk music to produce a new and elaborate form of accompaniment. It has been highly important in folk music...

of cultural associations where the Alpine folk culture is cultivated. At cultural events, traditional folk costume (in German Tracht) is expected: typically...

A folk museum is a museum that deals with folk culture and heritage. Such museums cover local life in rural communities. A folk museum typically displays...

nations' folk music see: Albanian folk music Bosnian folk music Bulgarian folk music Croatian folk music Macedonian folk music Montenegrin folk music Serbian...

The Motif-Index of Folk-Literature is a six volume catalogue of motifs, granular elements of folklore, composed by American folklorist Stith Thompson (1932–1936...

d-Dīn/ʻAlāʼ ad-Dīn, IPA: [ʕalaːʔ adˈdiːn], ATU 561, 'Aladdin') is a Middle-Eastern folk tale. It is one of the best-known tales associated with One Thousand and...

Folk music is one of the major divisions of music, now often divided into traditional folk music and contemporary folk music. There are many styles of...

The Real Folk Blues is a series of blues albums released between 1965 and 1967 by Chess Records, later reissued MCA Records. Each album in the series highlighted...

Slovakia has an enormous reservoir of folk music.[citation needed] The people of Slovakia tend to designate themselves as the "singing nation".[citation...

Nimrod Workman (November 5, 1895 – November 26, 1994) was an American folk singer, coal miner, and trade unionist. His musical repertoire included traditional...

Shamanism, Confucianism, Buddhism, and more recently Christianity. Many folk traditions developed in rural areas such as villages. They often relate to...

has drawn on multiple styles of music including punk rock, rock and roll, folk music (in particular Irish and Scottish music), Celtic soul, noise rock,...

of indie electronic[citation needed] music comprising various elements of folk music and electronica, often featuring uses of acoustic instruments—especially...

Folk dances of Assam include the Bihu and the Bagurumba (both danced during festivals held in the spring), the Bhortal, the Ojapali dance. Assam is home...

Future Folk is a New York City-based folk music comedy duo. Founded as a live act in 2004, the duo includes the characters General Trius (Nils d'Aulaire)...

Malaysian folk religion refers to the animistic and polytheistic beliefs and practices that are still held by many in the Islamic-majority country of Malaysia...

Chinese folk art or Chinese handcrafts are artistic forms inherited from a regional or ethnic scene in China. Usually there are some variation between...

Folker may refer to: Folker (album) Folker (magazine) This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Folker. If an internal link incorrectly...

series are The Enchanted Wood (1939), The Magic Faraway Tree (1943), The Folk of the Faraway Tree (1946) and Up the Faraway Tree (1951). The stories take...

Folk Singer is the second studio album and fourth album overall by Muddy Waters, released in January 1964 by Chess Records. The album features Waters on...

The Newport Folk Festival is an annual American folk-oriented music festival in Newport, Rhode Island, which began in 1959 as a counterpart to the Newport...

Robert Elms Folk (born March 5, 1949) is an American film and television composer and conductor who has written over 90 film and television scores, as...

The Hahoe Folk Village (Korean: 안동 하회마을) is a traditional village from the Joseon Dynasty, located in Andong, North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea. The...

– June 29, 1975) was an American musician. He began his career based in folk rock, but subsequently experimented with genres such as psychedelia, jazz...

Arlo Davy Guthrie (born July 10, 1947) is an American folk singer-songwriter. He is known for singing songs of protest against social injustice, and storytelling...

There are several individuals regarded Serbian folk heroes. Most of them were medieval people, enumerated in Serbian epic poetry. The list includes: Lazar...

Mumford (born 31 January 1987) is a British folk musician and singer. He is the lead singer of the folk band Mumford & Sons and also plays a number of...

Monsters of Folk was an American supergroup, consisting of Jim James from My Morning Jacket; Conor Oberst and Mike Mogis from Bright Eyes; and M. Ward...

A folk festival celebrates traditional folk crafts and folk music. This list includes folk festivals worldwide, except those with only a partial focus...

folk music in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Folk music is a genre of music. Folk music may also refer to: Traditional folk music Contemporary folk...

British folk rock is a form of folk rock which developed in the United Kingdom from the mid 1960s, and was at its most significant in the 1970s. Though...

This is a list of folk heroes, a type of hero – real, fictional or mythological – with their name, personality and deeds embedded in the popular consciousness...

Folk mathematics may refer to: The mathematical folklore that circulates among mathematicians The informal mathematics used in everyday life Folk theorem...

Georgian folk medicine (or Georgian traditional medicine) originated at the crossroads of the East and West and therefore integrates the principles of...

The Folk of the Air is a young adult fantasy book series by Holly Black, published by Little Brown Books for Young Readers. The story follows the journey...

Seongeup Folk Village (Korean: 성읍민속마을) is a traditional Korean folk village in Pyoseon-myeon [ko], Seogwipo, Jeju Province, South Korea. It has been continually...

Cunning folk traditions, sometimes referred to as folk magic, were intertwined with the early culture and practice of the Latter Day Saint movement. These...

A Folk Tale (Danish: Et Folkesagn) is a ballet in three acts, created in 1854 for the Royal Danish Ballet by the Danish ballet master and choreographer...

The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches is a 1903 work of American literature by W. E. B. Du Bois. It is a seminal work in the history of sociology...

be derived from British folk music, brought to the United States during early waves of immigration. Rooted in American folk music, such as old-time and...

Appalachian folk art is a regional form of folk art based in the Appalachian region of the United States. American folk art collector and writer Chuck...

The Mamas & the Papas were an American-Canadian folk rock vocal group that recorded and performed from 1965 to 1968, with a brief reunion in 1971. The...

Ben&Ben is a Filipino indie folk-pop band from Manila. They were formed in 2016 by twin brothers Paolo and Miguel Benjamin Guico (each on lead vocals and...

medieval literature and German cultural history. The first collection of folk tales, Children's and Household Tales (Kinder- und Hausmärchen), was published...

have been controversial. Hoffmann contrasted this animistic-shamanistic folk religion with the organised priesthood of Bonpos which developed later, Shaivism...

of Folk is a five volume series of compact discs released by Rhino Records in 1992. The series documents several decades worth of "contemporary" folk music...

Folk plays such as Hoodening, Guising, Mummers Play and Soul Caking are generally verse sketches performed in countryside pubs in European countries, private...

musicians who have both significant folk and rock elements in their music, even if they are not considered primarily folk rock artists. Chava Alberstein Eric...

Kathleen Lewis (née Dowley; March 7, 1903 – July 30, 1970) was a Canadian folk artist from Nova Scotia. She lived most of her life in poverty in a tiny...

Queer as Folk is a drama television series that ran from December 3, 2000, to August 7, 2005. The series was produced for Showtime and Showcase by Cowlip...

John Henry is an American folk hero. A Black American freedman, he is said to have worked as a "steel-driving man"—a man tasked with hammering a steel...

Turkish folk music (Turkish: Türk Halk Müziği) is the traditional music of Turkish people living in Turkey influenced by the cultures of Anatolia and former...

use collections of ethnic folk dances will use the term "international folk dance" or similar in their name. International folk dance developed in the immigrant...

Balfolk (from French: bal folk, meaning a folk ball) is a dance event for folk dance and folk music in a number of European countries, mainly in France...

major music producer, drawing inspiration from church music and traditional folk music, using instruments from England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Wales...

Turkish folk dress is a traditional style of varying folk clothing worn primarily in the rural parts of Turkey throughout the seven geographical regions...

critics for her unique musical style, sometimes characterized as progressive folk, and for her harp instrumentation. She has also appeared as an actress with...

Israeli folk dance (Hebrew: ריקודי עם, romanized: rikude ʿam, lit. 'folk dances') is a form of dance usually performed to songs in Hebrew, or to other...

for her eclectic tastes in the material she records (which has included folk music, country, show tunes, pop music, rock and roll and standards), for...

Cuban folk music includes a variety of traditional folk music of Cuba, and has been influenced by the Spanish and the African culture as well as the remaining...

The Modern Folk Quartet (or MFQ) was an American folk music revival group that formed in the early 1960s. Originally emphasizing acoustic instruments and...

Gerdes Folk City, sometimes spelled Gerde's Folk City, was a music venue in the West Village of Manhattan in New York City. Opened by Mike Porco in 1960...

"The Lincolnshire Poacher" is a traditional English folk song associated with the county of Lincolnshire, and deals with the joys of poaching. It is considered...

Romanian Folk Dances (Romanian: Dansuri populare românești, pronounced [ˈdansurʲ popuˈlare romɨˈneʃtʲ]), (Hungarian: Román népi táncok, pronounced [ˈromaːn...

and six string quartets. Through his collection and analytical study of folk music, he was one of the founders of comparative musicology, which later...

Salvation Army. There were also 135 Buddhists, 125 Muslims, and 15 Jews. Folk on the Rocks is a local music festival that has been an annual occurrence...

Welsh folk music (Welsh: Cerddoriaeth werin Gymreig) is traditional music sung or played in Wales, by Welsh people or originating from Wales. Folk artists...

verse and clapping instead of actually saying the letter. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 589. The contemporary version generally goes as follows:...

Death'), is a new religious movement, female deity, folk-Catholic saint, and folk saint in Mexican folk Catholicism and neo-paganism. A personification of...

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...

Russian folk music specifically deals with the folk music traditions of the ethnic Russian people. Russian folk music is used as the basic foundation...

This is a list of folk musicians, sorted by country, with some sub-categories based on region, style, or gender. Not all are strictly folk musicians, but...

Belarusian folk dance (Belarusian: Беларускі народны танец) is a Belarusian folk dance art, presented in the form of folk domestic or staged scenic dance...

Burmese folk religion (also known as Nat Worship by locals) refers to the animistic and polytheistic religious worship of nats (deities of local and Hindu...

Heaven Folk (German: Himmelsvolk. Ein Märchen von Blumen, Tieren und Gott, lit. 'Heaven Folk. A Tale of Flowers, Animals and God') is a novel by the German...

Michael Craig Folk (born in Martinsburg, West Virginia) is an American politician. A Republican, he was formerly a member of the West Virginia House of...

KLOF Magazine (formerly Folk Radio UK) is an independent online music and culture magazine founded in June 2004 by Alex Gallacher. Originally launched...

songwriter of the American folk music revival, began recording and performing with electric instruments, generating controversy in the folk music community. The...

The British folk revival incorporates a number of movements for the collection, preservation and performance of folk music in the United Kingdom and related...

dictionary. A folktale or folk tale is a story from the oral literature. Folktale, Folktales, Folk Tale, etc. may also refer to: A Folk Tale, an 1854 ballet...

„Mazowsze” im. Tadeusza Sygietyńskiego)  – "State Folk Ensemble of Song and Dance 'Mazowsze'") is a famous Polish folk dance and song ensemble. It is named after...

Folk-Country is the second studio album and major-label debut by American country music artist Waylon Jennings, released in 1966 on RCA Victor. It is his...

The Kerrville Folk Festival is a music festival with camping, held for nearly three weeks each year, in late spring/early summer, at Quiet Valley Ranch...

the mid- to late 1960s. Its studio-centric sound was primarily rooted in folk rock and easy listening, typically featuring rich harmony vocals and progressive...

ciao" (Italian: [ˈbɛlla ˈtʃaːo]) is an anti-Nazi and anti-fascist Italian folk song dedicated to the partisans of the Italian resistance, who fought against...

Folk is an unincorporated community in northwestern Osage County, Missouri, United States. It is located approximately ten miles southeast of Jefferson...

1977) is an American musician, actress and author known for her eclectic folk music. She is a founding member of the group Carolina Chocolate Drops, where...

multi-instrumentalist. He is best-known as the primary songwriter and frontman of indie folk band Bon Iver. He is also a member of the bands Volcano Choir, Big Red Machine...

neither traditional nor did it seek any authenticity. While the traditional folk music of Punjab has a set of melodies that are used by various singers, bhangra...

painting, etc.), and the worship of Slavic gods has persisted in unofficial folk religion into modern times. The Slavs' resistance to Christianity gave rise...

Oral literature, orature, or folk literature is a genre of literature that is spoken or sung in contrast to that which is written, though much oral literature...

"The Folk Singer" is a folk song, written by Charles E. Daniels and American musician Johnny Cash and first recorded by Cash in 1968. It is also known...

Sathanas, and Deströyer 666. Folk black metal, pagan metal and Viking metal are styles that incorporates elements of folk music, with pagan metal bands...

history. These can be broadly divided into classical music, traditional/folk music and popular music and all of them have produced internationally successful...

Alpine folk music (German: Alpenländische Volksmusik; German's Volksmusik means "people's music" or as a Germanic connotative translation, "folk's music")...

As a folk definition, philosophy and linguistics refer to definition-like methods used in everyday life to explain the meaning of a word or a particular...

Taiwan campus folk song, campus folk song, or campus folk rock (Chinese: 校園民歌) is a genre of Taiwanese music with its roots as student songs in the campuses...

Monkey: A Folk-Tale of China, more often known as simply Monkey, is an abridged translation published in 1942 by Arthur Waley of the sixteenth-century...

"My Fair Lady" or "London Bridge") is a traditional English nursery rhyme, folk music and singing game, which is found in different versions all over the...

The Avett Brothers /ˈeɪvɪt/ are an American folk rock band from Concord, North Carolina. The band is made up of two brothers, Scott Avett (banjo, lead...

Fast Folk Musical Magazine (originally known as The CooP) was a combination magazine and record album published from February 1982 to 1997. The magazine...

Thoms, the editor of Notes and Queries who had first introduced the term folk-lore, seems to have been instrumental in the formation of the society: as...

fiddlers often use steel strings. The fiddle is part of many traditional (folk) styles, which are typically aural traditions—taught "by ear" rather than...

The Tetley Tea Folk are animated characters used to advertise Tetley Tea from 1973 to 2001 and from 2010 to 2012 and 2014–2016. The Canadian copywriter...

Korean Folk Village (Korean: 한국민속촌) is a living museum type of tourist attraction in the city of Yongin, a satellite city in the Seoul Metropolitan Area...

Rock & Folk is a prominent French popular music magazine founded in 1966, and published in the Paris suburb of Clichy. Editor in chief were Philippe Koechlin...

Ukrainian folk music includes a number of varieties of traditional, folkloric, folk-inspired popular music, and folk-inspired European classical music...

The Queer as Folk soundtracks are the official musical accompaniment to the 2000s North American television series Queer as Folk. Five CDs were released...

Train" is an American folk song written by Elizabeth Cotten in the early 20th century, and popularized during the American folk revival and British skiffle...

languages of China. It includes traditional classical forms and indigenous folk music, as well as recorded popular music and forms inspired by Western culture...

Kurdish folk music (Kurdish: میوزیکی فۆلکلۆری کوردی, romanized: Mîwzîkî folkilorî Kurdî or مۆسیقای فۆلکلۆر) is a musical tradition associated with the...

recent origin and should be classified as popular music rather than folk. Linkages from folk music to mento are described in Daniel T. Neely's dissertation...

reminiscent of folk music. Many songs that are widely considered to be bluegrass are in reality older works legitimately classified as folk or old-time music...

The Folk Sampler was a nationally syndicated show, produced and hosted by Mike Flynn, that showcased folk, blues, and bluegrass music both modern and...

Polish folk dances are a tradition rooted in ten centuries of Polish culture and history. Many of the dances stem from regional customs and historical...

Hmong folk spirituality or Miao folk spirituality (RPA: Kev Dab Qhuas) is the common ethnic religion of the Miao people. The religion is also called Hmongism...

Country-Folk is a collaborative studio album by American country music artist Waylon Jennings featuring the Kimberlys on vocals. It was released in 1969...

World folk-epics are those epics which are not just literary masterpieces but also an integral part of the worldview of a people. They were originally...

American historian Jack D. Forbes wrote that the animism of native and folk religious beliefs of Africa, Asia and the Americas was synonymous with "life-ism"...

Indigenous Philippine folk religions are the distinct native religions of various ethnic groups in the Philippines, where most follow belief systems in...

Lithuanian folk music is the traditional music of Lithuania, belonging to the broader category of Baltic music. Both stringed (kanklių) and wind instruments...

Americana Music Association (AMA) in 2020 as "…the rich threads of country, folk, blues, soul, bluegrass, gospel, and rock in our tapestry." A previous 2016...

Dravidian folk religion refers to the presumed indigenous traditions of the Dravidian-speaking peoples in the Indian subcontinent, believed to have been...

The Pirin Folk Ensemble (Bulgarian: Фолклорен ансамбъл „Пирин“, Folkloren ansambal „Pirin“) (also Pirin Folk Song and Dances State Ensemble) is a Bulgarian...

Peter, Paul and Mary was an American folk group formed in New York City in 1961 during the American folk music revival. The trio consisted of Peter Yarrow...

國樂; gugak; lit. 'national music') produced by Korea includes court music, folk music, poetic songs, and religious music used in shamanistic and Buddhist...

Folk ragtime is a subgenre of ragtime, a distinctly American music. It is sometimes referred to as a "school" of ragtime, or "strains" of ragtime. It is...

Fraktur is a highly artistic and elaborate illustrated folk art created by the Pennsylvania Dutch, named after the Fraktur script associated with it. Place...

The Midnight Folk is a children's fantasy novel by John Masefield first published in 1927. It is about a boy, Kay Harker, who sets out to discover what...

country with hundreds of different tribes and culture, Indonesia has many folk songs, known as regional songs in Indonesian (lagu daerah), for each province...

and the increase in the nerd-geek demographic. Nerd-folk (also nerd folk, geek-folk, or dork-folk) is a musical genre derived from filking that features...

American Folk is a 2017 American drama film written and directed by David Heinz. The film stars Joe Purdy, Amber Rubarth, Krisha Fairchild, David Fine...

The Fox is a traditional folk song (Roud 131) from England. It is also the subject of at least two picture books, The Fox Went out on a Chilly Night: An...

In the study of folklore, the folk process is the way folk material, especially stories, music, and other art, is transformed and re-adapted in the process...

Anthology of American Folk Music is a three-volume compilation album released in August 1952 by Folkways Records. It was compiled by American polymath...

with shamanistic early rituals five thousand years ago and now ranges from folk dance to newly created and adopted contemporary dance. Korean traditional...

Folk Time is an album by the Hart Valley Drifters, an American folk music band. It was recorded in 1962 at the studios of KZSU, a radio station at Stanford...

October 10, 1946 – April 7, 2020) was an American singer-songwriter of country-folk music. Widely cited as one of the most influential songwriters of his generation...

Yangdong Folk Village (Korean: 경주 양동마을) is a traditional yangban (upper class) Korean folk village that dates to the Joseon period. The village is located...

Folk Ridge (73°9′S 161°49′E / 73.150°S 161.817°E / -73.150; 161.817) is a ridge just southeast of Moore Ridge and parallel to it in the Caudal Hills...

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...

Hungarian Folk Tales (Hungarian: Magyar népmesék, pronounced [ˈmɒɟɒr ˈneːpmɛʃeːk]) is a Hungarian animated series and one of the first and biggest successes...

Cieszyn folk costume, also known as Valachian, is a Silesian folk costume, which used to be worn within majority of the area of Cieszyn Silesia, but mostly...

Mexican handcrafts and folk art is a complex collection of items made with various materials and intended for utilitarian, decorative or other purposes...

Punjabi dances are an array of folk and religious dances of the Punjabi people indigenous to the Punjab region, straddling the border of India and Pakistan...

The folk deities of Sylhet are the various devas and devis that were traditionally worshipped by the syncretist societies in Bangladesh's northeastern...

Country blues (also folk blues, rural blues, backwoods blues, or downhome blues) is one of the earliest forms of blues music, but also refers to a blend...

dances or a family of related dances. For example, ballet, ballroom dance and folk dance can be single dance styles or families of related dances. See following...

The Dubliners (/ˈdʌblɪnərz/) were an Irish folk band founded in Dublin in 1962 as The Ronnie Drew Ballad Group, named after its founding member; they subsequently...

musicians. Dylan added increasingly sophisticated lyrical techniques to the folk music of the early 1960s, infusing it "with the intellectualism of classic...

Folk music thus differentiates between traditional and contemporary. Many of Canada's most influential folk artists emerged in the contemporary folk music...

deliberately low-quality sound, influenced by indie rock and psychedelic folk. Mangum wrote surreal and opaque lyrics that covered a wide range of topics...

Ilocano folk religion Itneg folk religion Kalinga folk religion Kankanaey folk religion Karay-a folk religion Mangyan folk religion Palawan folk religion...

Hungarian folk music includes an array of styles, including the recruitment dance verbunkos, the csárdás and nóta. It is characterised by complex melodic...

mythology are the Tuatha Dé Danann. Tuatha Dé Danann is construed to mean "the folk of the goddess Danann or "people/tribe/nation of the god Ana[?]" Ana or Anu...

regarded as a folk singer, but her music has diversified since the counterculture era of the 1960s and encompasses genres such as folk rock, pop, country...

known professionally as Aldous Harding (/ˈɔːldəs/ AWL-dəs), is an indie folk singer-songwriter from Lyttelton, New Zealand. She is known for her "elastic...

Folk, Blues and Beyond is the second studio album by British musician Davy Graham, originally released in 1965. It has been considered Graham's most groundbreaking...

stores that profited from African American folk practices. White merchants profited from African American folk magic and placed stereotypical images of...

is a song made popular in the United States and Europe during the 1960s folk revival. The simple repetitive lyrics offer a lament by a traveler who is...

singer trained in Indian classical music and folk music. She has sung original songs, covers, and traditional folk music in Hindi, Maithili, Bhojpuri, Awadhi...

communities resulted in an exceptionally vital and creative traditional culture. Folk creations (the best known is the ballad Miorița) were the main literary genre...

Russian folk dance (Russian: Русский народный танец) is an important part of Russian culture. Some of the unique characteristics suggest that many elements...

of German, French, Italian, Romansh and other ethnicities. Religious and folk music dominated the country until the 17th century, with growth in production...

Archive of Folk Culture (originally named The Archive of American Folk Song) was established in 1928 as the first national collection of American folk music...

folk non-clay sculpture. Folk performing arts – including dances, plays, and dramas. Folk (oral) literature – including epics, songs, and myths. Folk...

songs and many songs not available anywhere else. Their first album, titled Folk Music, was released in early 2006. The single "Round Round" was featured...

The Nodding Folk was the name of an industrial music supergroup with members David Tibet, James Mannox, John Balance, Peter Christopherson, Sam Mannox-Wood...

This is a list of songs by their Roud Folk Song Index numbers; the full catalogue can also be found on the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library website. Some...

The Romanian folk violin (Romanian: vioară, /viˈo̯a.rə/; also diblă, scripcă, ceteră, higheghe, țibulcă, braci) is a bowed string musical instrument and...

Queer as Folk is a drama television series. An American–Canadian co-production. The series ran between December 2000 and August 2005 and was produced for...

Stanley Allison Rogers (November 29, 1949 – June 2, 1983) was a Canadian folk musician and songwriter who sang traditional-sounding songs frequently inspired...

The Ozark Folk Center is an Arkansas living history state park located in Mountain View, Arkansas, dedicated to preserving and presenting Ozark cultural...

Animal Crossing: City Folk, released as Animal Crossing: Let's Go to the City in PAL territories, is a 2008 social simulation game developed and published...

Bangladeshi Folk Literature (Bengali: বাংলাদেশী লোক সাহিত্য) constitutes a considerable portion of Bengali literature. Though it was created by illiterate...

Fritt Folk ("Free People") was a Norwegian newspaper, published in Oslo. It was the official organ of the fascist party Nasjonal Samling, and came to prominence...

parzenica is a heart-shaped traditional handicraft pattern and decorative folk art of the Goral people, who live in the mountainous region of southern Poland...

both ends of the age range." "Children's traditional games (also called folk games) are those that are passed from child to child, generation to generation...

East Slavic or Eastern European folk tale, considered a Ukrainian folk tale in some collections, as well as a Russian folk tale in others. In retellings...

Bulgarian folk dances are intimately related to the music of Bulgaria. This distinctive feature of Balkan folk music is the asymmetrical meter, built up...

Industrial folk music, industrial folk song, industrial work song or working song is a subgenre of folk or traditional music that developed from the 18th...

It is not easy to trace out the origins of the Telugu folk literature, for that matter any folk literature. It is as difficult as tracing the origin of...

Zeibekiko (Greek: Ζεϊμπέκικο, IPA: [zei̯ˈbeciko]) is a Greek folk dance, similar to Turkish Zeybek dance. It takes its name from the Zeybeks, an irregular...

Estonian folk dance is a traditional and culturally distinct dance form that reflects Estonia's northern European heritage. Known for its calm yet dynamic...

The Ark, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, is a nationally known acoustic and folk music venue. It has been in existence in various locations since 1965. It currently...

The Illawarra Folk Festival started in 1985 in Jamberoo, New South Wales. It has grown to become one of the largest festivals in Australia run entirely...

music being revived. Before 1840, there were limited written sources of folk music in Norway. Originally these historical attainments were believed to...

Earle (/ɜːrl/; born January 17, 1955) is an American country, rock, and folk singer-songwriter. He began his career as a songwriter in Nashville. Earle's...

Folk UnderGround is a musical group from Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, who blend traditional music and new songs with dark and darkly comic themes. The...

Viru Folk is an Estonian music festival held in August in Käsmu since 2008. It is organised by the nonprofit organization (MTÜ) Viru Folk, and Peep Veedla...

The English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS, pronounced 'EFF-diss') is an organisation that promotes English folk music and folk dance. EFDSS was formed...

Influenced Traditions also referred to as "Westernized folk traditions" or "lowland Christianized folk traditions"; and American Influenced Traditions, including...

Lithuanian folk songs (Lithuanian: liaudies dainos) are often noted for not only their mythological content but also their relating of historical events...

Indian folk music is diverse because of India's enormous cultural and traditional diversity. It is sung in various languages and dialects throughout the...

The cunning folk were professional or semi-professional practitioners of magic in Europe from the medieval period to the early 20th century. In Britain...

clothes (mostly dating to the 18th and 19th centuries) and modern 20th-century folk costumes. In its narrowest sense, the word bunad refers only to clothes designed...

Minhwa (Korean: 민화; Hanja: 民畵) refers to Korean folk art produced mostly by itinerant or unknown artists without formal training, emulating contemporary...

Viddenes folk (The People of the Mountain Plateau) is a Norwegian romantic drama film from 1928 directed by Ragnar Westfelt. Westfelt also wrote the script...

Folk practices prevalent in Punjab incorporate local mysticism and refers to the beliefs and practices strictly indigenous to the Punjabi people, of the...

The Beverley Folk Festival is a three-day celebration of folk music, art, comedy and spoken word held in Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It...

term in Wales for the mythological creatures corresponding to the fairy folk of English and Continental folklore and the Irish Aos Sí. Other names for...

Bangkok Folk Museum, or Bangkokian Museum (Thai: พิพิธภัณฑ์ชาวบางกอก, RTGS: Phiphithaphan Chao Bang Kok), is a museum in Bangkok, Thailand. It is at house...

Western literature as the same musical form. The folk origins of the Mazurka are three Polish folk dances which are: mazur, most characteristic due to...

The CityFolk Festival (known until 2014 as the Ottawa Folk Festival) is a folk music festival held annually in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The festival is...

of ensemble called a jing ping band. In addition, Dominica's folk tradition includes folk songs called bélé, traditional storytelling called kont, masquerade...

Folk Songs is a 2017 studio album by American string quartet Kronos Quartet, featuring classical and roots musicians Sam Amidon, Olivia Chaney, Rhiannon...

Johnny Rivers Rocks the Folk is the second studio album by the American musician Johnny Rivers, released in September 1965 by Imperial Records. It consists...

known as folk epics. Indian folk epics have been investigated by Lauri Honko (1998), Brenda Beck (1982) and John Smith, amongst others. Folk epics are...

The Cambridge Folk Festival is an annual music festival, established in 1965, held in the grounds of Cherry Hinton Hall in Cherry Hinton, one of the villages...

Violent Femmes are an American folk punk band from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. The band consists of founding members Gordon Gano (guitar, lead...

The American Folk Art Museum is an art museum on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, at 2 Lincoln Square, Columbus Avenue at 66th Street...

Medieval folk rock, medieval rock or medieval folk is a musical subgenre that emerged in the early 1970s in England and Germany which combined elements...

Scottish musician, songwriter and record producer. He emerged from the British folk scene in early 1965 and subsequently scored numerous international hit singles...

Ocie Elliott is a Canadian indie folk music duo from Victoria, British Columbia, featuring Jon Middleton and Sierra Lundy. They've released three albums...

Mumford & Sons are an English folk rock band formed in Greater London. The band consists of Marcus Mumford (lead vocals, guitar, drums), Ben Lovett (vocals...

Pentangle are a British folk rock band, formed in London in 1967. The original band was active in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and a later version has...

1997), known professionally as John Denver, was an American country and folk singer, songwriter, and actor. He was one of the most popular acoustic artists...

A roots revival (folk revival) is a trend which includes young performers popularizing the traditional musical styles of their ancestors. Often, roots...

Orchestra of Folk Instruments, the Kazakh State Philharmonic Orchestra, the Kazakh National Opera and the Kazakh State Chamber Orchestra. The folk instrument...

The Msgr. Patrick Anthony Folk Research Centre (FRC, Plas Wíchès Foklò) of Saint Lucia has studied and promoted the local music of Saint Lucia since its...

(née Nevills; January 5, 1893 – June 29, 1987) was an influential American folk and blues musician. She was a self-taught left-handed guitarist who played...

a list of notable folk metal bands. Folk metal is a fusion of heavy metal music and folk music that features widespread use of folk instruments and to...

The Folk of the Fringe (1989) is a collection of post-apocalyptic stories by American writer Orson Scott Card. These stories are set sometime in the near...

Zeybek is a traditional Turkish folk dance that originated from the Aegean Region of Turkey during the Ottoman period. It was performed by and named after...

Land Is Your Land" is a song by American folk singer Woody Guthrie. One of the United States' most famous folk songs, its lyrics were written in 1940 in...

also spelled dabka, dabki, dubki, dabkeh, plural dabkaat) is a Levantine folk dance, particularly popular among Lebanese, Jordanian, Palestinian, and Syrian...

composer widely considered one of the most significant figures in American folk music. His work focused on themes of American socialism and anti-fascism...

Florida Folk Festival is a long-running annual folk music festival in Hamilton County, Florida. It began in 1953. Thelma Boltin was an organizer for the...

1986 and he was raised in Philadelphia. Isakov's music combines indie and folk, featuring instruments such as the guitar and banjo. He is widely known for...

tribe of Killer-Folk, hostile beings native to his planet, but was rescued by Moon-Boy, a young member of a rival tribe, the Small-Folk. Exposure to the...

Jens Tismar's monograph in German, is a story that differs "from an oral folk tale" in that it is written by "a single identifiable author". They differ...

taken as a folk song in Kirant Rai community. This song can be sung anywhere and by anybody and in anytime.hakpare chham is popular folk song specially...

Swedish folk music is a genre of music based largely on folkloric collection work that began in the early 19th century in Sweden. The primary instrument...

The Holy Modal Rounders was an American folk music group, originally a duo (members Peter Stampfel and Steve Weber) who formed in 1963 on the Lower East...

The National Folk Organization of the United States of America (NFO) is an organization that seeks to unify both individuals and organizations interested...

The Middlewich Folk and Boat Festival takes place in June in Middlewich, Cheshire, England. The festival builds on the town's industrial heritage in which...

Moseley Folk and Arts Festival is an independent music festival which takes place annually in Birmingham. First held in 2006 as a two-day event (as Moseley...

Nuo folk religion, or extendedly, Chinese popular exorcistic religion, is a variant of Chinese folk religion with its own system of temples, rituals,...

divided into two major categories, high art (classical dance) and low art (folk dance). The term nattasin (Thai: นาฏศิลป์) means "art of the classical Thai...

Some of the folk sects, like Balarami, Baul, Sahedhani, Karta bhaja, Matuya, Jagomohani, and Nyadar, are still found in different places in both Bengals...

The music of Qatar is based on sea folk poetry, song and dance. The historical importance of pearl fishing is commonly expressed through melodies, tunes...

lyrics and melodies. In the United States, the category is built on the folk-acoustic tradition with a guitar, although this role has transmuted through...

Ghoomar or ghumar is a traditional folk dance of Rajasthan. It was the Bhil tribe who performed it to worship Goddess Saraswati which was later embraced...

creating musical collages of wide-ranging genres. He has musically encompassed folk, funk, soul, hip hop, electronica, alternative rock, country, and psychedelia...

"Tom Dooley" (Roud 4192) is a traditional North Carolina folk song based on the 1866 murder of a woman named Laura Foster in Wilkes County, North Carolina...

Australian folk music is the traditional music from the large variety of immigrant cultures and those of the original Australian inhabitants. Celtic, English...

Robert "Bob" Louis "Luigi" Folk (September 30, 1925, Cleveland, Ohio – June 4, 2018) was an American geologist and petrologist, specializing in sedimentology...

singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Harper plays an eclectic mix of blues, folk, soul, reggae, and rock music, and he is known for his guitar-playing skills...

(June 30, 1936 – February 10, 2002) was an American folk singer. An important figure in the American folk music revival and New York City's Greenwich Village...

Mento is a style of Jamaican folk music that predates and has greatly influenced ska and reggae music. It is Jamaica’s first commercially recorded music...

in English sometimes called powwow or pow-wow, is a system of Christian folk practice originating in the culture of the Pennsylvania Dutch in the 1700s...

well as a major contributor to the evolution of punk rock, indie music, folk, and hip hop. Nearby Tacoma and Olympia have also been centers of influence...

of applied art (primarily carpets and jewelry) indicate a high level of folk art culture. The Seljuks, Khwarazmians, Qara Qoyunlu, Aq Qoyunlu, Ottomans...

music scene, which includes several genres of rock, as well as classical, folk, and hip hop music. Perhaps the most influential early composer of the United...

playing these files? See media help. "Turkey in the Straw" is an American folk song that first gained popularity in the 19th century. Early versions of...

Mormon folk music is primarily composed of folk music which was sung by Mormon pioneers in present-day Utah from the mid-19th century through the early...

remains overall distinctive in its rhythm and sound. The ethnic Macedonian folk music (Macedonian: Народна музика, Narodna muzika) includes: Traditional...

Folk biology (or folkbiology) is the cognitive study of how people classify and reason about the organic world. Humans everywhere classify animals and...

"Cindy" or "Cindy, Cindy" (Roud 836) is a popular American folk song. According to John Lomax, the song originated in North Carolina.[citation needed]...

1999) was an American artist and arts patron, founder of the Craft and Folk Art Museum in Los Angeles. Edith Robinson was born in San Francisco in 1918...

and other forms of musical theatre. Participatory dance, whether it be a folk dance, a social dance, a group dance such as a line, circle, chain or square...

The Austrian Museum of Folk Life and Folk Art (German: Österreichisches Museum für Volkskunde), commonly known as the Volkskundemuseum Wien, is an ethnographic...

Karnataka has a variety of traditional arts, including folk dance and puppetry. The ritual dances of Karnataka are known as Kunitha. One such dance is...

Swedish folk instruments. The instrumental genre is the biggest one in Sweden. In the 1960s, Swedish youth sparked a roots revival in Swedish folk culture...

Polite People (Icelandic: Kurteist fólk) is a 2011 Icelandic comedy film directed by Olaf de Fleur Johannesson. Stefán Karl Stefánsson as Lárus Skjaldarson...

In theoretical physics, the folk theorem states how to construct an effective field theory. It was first formulated by Steven Weinberg in the 1979 in the...

"Arirang" (Korean: 아리랑; pronounced [a.ɾi.ɾaŋ]) is a Korean folk song. There are about 3,600 variations of 60 different versions of the song, all of which...

rock, beat, psychedelic rock, blues rock, and folk rock, which had grown in popularity. The country- and folk-influenced style associated with the latter...

among the regions that experienced a notable resurgence in the popularity of folk music. Traditional styles of music had survived most in remote areas, such...

English Folk Song Suite is one of English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams' most famous works. It was first published for the military band as Folk Song Suite...

Assyrian folk dances are sets of dances that are performed throughout the world by Assyrians, mostly on occasions such as weddings, community parties and...

Skiffle is a genre of folk music with influences from American folk music, blues, country, bluegrass, and jazz, generally performed with a mixture of...

and guitarist from Glendale, California. Ward's solo work is a mixture of folk and blues-inspired Americana analog recordings. He has released 12 studio...

Folk-Tales of Bengal is a collection of folk tales and fairy tales of Bengal written by Lal Behari Dey. The book was published in 1883. The illustrations...

"Casper" Deluxx Folk Implosion – "Daddy Never Understood" Folk Implosion – "Nothing Gonna Stop" Folk Implosion – "Jenny's Theme" Folk Implosion – "Simean...

instructional books. The inexpensive or home-made banjo remained part of rural folk culture, but five-string and four-string banjos also became popular for home...

The Fureys are an Irish folk band originally formed in 1974. The group consisted initially of four brothers who grew up in Ballyfermot, Dublin. Brothers...

A tradition is a system of beliefs or behaviors (folk custom) passed down within a group of people or society with symbolic meaning or special significance...

bodice, a wide high-waisted skirt and an apron. The dirndl is regarded as a folk costume (in German Tracht). Today it is generally considered traditional...

1918 – November 6, 2009) was an American country musician, songwriter, and folk music archivist. For much of his life, Shepard was an accomplished confidence...

(Punjabi: [soː(ɦ)ɳiː məɦĩʋaːl]) or Suhni Mehar is a classical Punjabi–Sindhi folk tragedy. Set in northern Punjab or central Sindh, depending upon the version...

Bluegrass Albums chart, No. 9 on the Heatseekers Albums chart, and No. 15 on the Folk Albums chart. In 2014, the band opened for Drew Holcomb and the Neighbors...

Punjabi folk music (Punjabi: پنجابی لوک موسیقی, Punjabi: ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਲੋਕ ਸੰਗੀਤ or Punjabi Folk) is the traditional music on the traditional musical instruments...

different varieties of folktales, legends and other stories. More than 300 folk-tales have been brought to light through this series of volumes, which includes...

Turkish folk dances are the folk dances of Turkey. Facing three seas, straddling important trade routes, Turkey has a complex, sophisticated culture, reflected...

The Kingston Trio is an American folk and pop music group that helped launch the folk revival of the late 1950s to the late 1960s. The group started as...

singer-songwriter and producer. Her music spans multiple genres, including folk rock, alternative country, Americana, and classic rock. During her career...

African folk art consists of a variety of items: household objects, metal objects, toys, textiles, masks, and wood sculpture. Most traditional African...

Bryter Layter is the second studio album by the English folk singer-songwriter Nick Drake. Released on March 5, 1971 by Island Records, it was his last...

A Folk Song a Day was a project by the English folk singer and musician and Bellowhead member Jon Boden where he recorded and released a folk song each...

Celtic music is a broad grouping of music genres that evolved out of the folk music traditions of the Celtic people of Northwestern Europe (the modern...

of American Folk Music to Bob Dylan. The movement is inspired by the folk music of the 1960s and 1970s, while encompassing psychedelic folk genres such...

The castle folk (Hungarian: várnép, Latin: castrenses or civis) formed a class of freemen, in the medieval Kingdom of Hungary, who were obliged to provide...

Albanian folk music, Arabic folk music, Balkan folk music, Israeli folk music, Turkish folk music, Greek folk music, Italian folk music, French folk music...

Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Chinese folk religion, Shinto, indigenous Philippine folk religions, and Germanic paganism as well as in secular...

Scots-language poem written by Robert Burns in 1788, but based on an older Scottish folk song. In 1799 it was set to a traditional pentatonic tune, which has since...

Serbian folk music (Serbian: српска народна музика / srpska narodna muzika) refers to, in the narrow sense, the "older" style of Serbian folk music, predating...

Assyrian folk/pop music, also known as Assyrian folk-pop, is the musical style of the Assyrian people derived from traditional music that includes a broad...

Conversation with Death", is a traditional Appalachian folk song, listed as number 4933 in the Roud Folk Song Index. The song is generally attributed to the...

October 20, 2024), known professionally as Barbara Dane, was an American folk, blues and jazz singer, guitarist, record producer, and political activist...

This article describes Serbian folk astronomy. In Serbian belief, the Sun is anthropomorphised as a man. Sometimes, the Moon is described as the Sun's...

and music, Bulgarian folk beliefs and mythology seem to lack analogies with Turkic mythology, paganism and any non-European folk beliefs, so in pre-Christian...

Folk dances of Sindh (Sindhi: سنڌ جا لوڪ ناچ‎) are the traditional dances of the Sindhi people, which are indigenous to Sindh region which is now in Pakistan...

The Folk of the Air is a novel by Peter S. Beagle in which medievalists from 1980s California have magical interactions with people and spirits from the...

Yao folk religion, also known as Meishan Sect (梅山教) is the ethnic religion of the Yao people, a non-Sinitic ethnic group who reside in the Guangxi, Hunan...

folk attested to in Thomas Keightley's The Fairy Mythology Zankallala - A rodent-riding trickster of the Hausa people Below is a listing of wee folk from...

The German noun Volk (German pronunciation: [fɔlk]) translates to people, both uncountable in the sense of people as in a crowd, and countable (plural...

Skin Folk is a story collection by Jamaican-Canadian writer Nalo Hopkinson, published in 2001. Winner of the 2002 World Fantasy Award for Best Story Collection...

is best known for his 1971 hit "American Pie", an eight-and-a-half-minute folk rock song that has been referred to as a "cultural touchstone". His other...

folklorist and scholar who analysed the basic structural elements of Russian folk tales to identify their simplest, irreducible structural units. Vladimir...

Andrew Kennedy Irvine (born 14 June 1942) is an Irish folk musician, singer-songwriter, and a founding member of Sweeney's Men, Planxty, Patrick Street...

robam) consists of three main categories: classical dance of the royal court, folk dance which portrays cultural traditions, and social dances performed in...

The Kaesong Folk Hotel is a tourist hotel located in Kaesong, North Korea, which opened in 1989. Housed in 19 traditional hanok-style courtyard houses...

Joseph "Holy Joe" Wingate Folk (October 28, 1869 – May 28, 1923) was an American lawyer, reformer, and politician from St. Louis, Missouri. He was Governor...

Caamp (stylized as CAAMP) is an American folk band from Upper Arlington, a suburb of Columbus, Ohio. The band began as a project between childhood friends...

Folk Matinee is a studio album by the American folk music group, The Limeliters, a trio made up of Lou Gottlieb, Alex Hassilev, and Glenn Yarbrough. It...

Flowers Gone?" is a folk song written by American singer-songwriter Pete Seeger in 1955. Inspired lyrically by the traditional Cossack folk song "Koloda-Duda"...

at the end of 1978), under the tutelage of Wang Yinsuan, specializing in folk vocal music. In 1979, she won the Excellent Prize of the Shandong Province...

others. The folk revival can be considered as a political re-invention of traditional song, a development encouraged by Left-leaning folk record labels...

Icelandic folk music includes a number of styles that are together a prominent part of the music of Iceland. When speaking of traditional Icelandic vocal...

Fonó Zenekar, the Fonó Folk Band is a Hungarian folk band, playing traditional Hungarian music. Fonó Folk Band was founded in 1997 in Budapest. Its members...

of Fogo in Fogo Island is home to the Brimstone Head Folk Festival, hosted by the Fogo Island Folk Alliance. This event attracts people from all over every...

Naïve physics or folk physics is the untrained human perception of basic physical phenomena. In the field of artificial intelligence the study of naïve...

Luke Kelly (17 November 1940 – 30 January 1984) was an Irish singer, folk musician and actor from Dublin, Ireland. Born into a working-class household...

century, including the 1966 arrangement in counterpoint by the American folk rock duo Simon & Garfunkel, who learned the ballad from Martin Carthy. A...

"Shady Grove" (Roud 4456) is a traditional Appalachian folk song, believed to have originated in eastern Kentucky around the beginning the 20th century...

of art music in the Western world, considered to be distinct from Western folk music or popular music traditions. It is sometimes distinguished as Western...

tool for folklorists, used along with the Thompson (1932) Motif-Index of Folk-Literature. Austrian consul Johann Georg von Hahn devised a preliminary analysis...

Danish folk dance is characterized by being easy going, gentle, and relatively easy to learn. Danish folk dance is mainly a social dance involving groups...

Folk dance of Mexico, commonly known as baile folklorico or Mexican ballet folk dance, is a term used to collectively describe traditional Mexican folk...

Modern Folk Üçlüsü ("Modern Folklore Trio") is a Turkish music trio. As the name implies, their main source is Turkish folklore songs (Türkü). The group...

Folk high schools (also adult education center) are institutions for adult education that generally do not grant academic degrees, though certain courses...

Croatian dance traditionally refers to a category of folk-dances, the most common being the kolo. Croatian dance varies by region, and can be found in...

Arab folk dances (Arabic: رقص عربي, romanized: raqs ʿarabiyy), also referred to as Oriental dance, Middle-Eastern dance and Eastern dance, are the traditional...

speakers of the Nagpuri language, which includes literature, festivals, folk song and dance. It is also referred to as the culture related to the Nagpuri...

The music of Barbados includes distinctive national styles of folk and popular music, including elements of Western classical and religious music. The...

Folk revival may refer to: American folk music revival British folk revival Roots revival Roots Revival (project) This disambiguation page lists articles...

16), also known as "A Frog He Would A-Wooing Go", is an English-language folk song. Its first known appearance is in Wedderburn's Complaynt of Scotland...

Philippine folk literature refers to the traditional oral literature of the Filipino people. Thus, the scope of the field covers the ancient folk literature...

mountains. Albanian popular music often incorporates the country's folk music. Albanian folk music includes monophonic and polyphonic styles, responses, choral...

Japanese dance may be among those transmitted through the kagura tradition, or folk dances relating to food producing activities such as planting rice (dengaku)...

Morris dancing is a form of English folk dance. It is based on rhythmic stepping and the execution of choreographed figures by a group of dancers in costume...

Night?", "My Girl", "Hey Girl", or "Black Girl", is a traditional American folk song originating from two songs, "In the Pines" and "The Longest Train",...

The Weavers were an American folk music quartet based in the Greenwich Village area of New York City originally consisting of Lee Hays, Pete Seeger, Ronnie...

guitar and piano. She is known for her stripped-down songwriting style in the folk music genre. Her songs have been covered by numerous musicians, including...

and third instalments of the trilogy of Douglas's formative years: My Ain Folk (1973) and My Way Home (1978). The Bill Douglas Trilogy recounts the harrowing...

The Negro Folk Symphony is a symphony composed by William L. Dawson in 1934 and revised in 1952. Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra debuted...

Folk Dranouter is a yearly folk festival spanning four days at the beginning of August in the Belgian village of Dranouter. Since 2005, a second, smaller...

Finland can be roughly divided into folk music, classical and contemporary art music, and contemporary popular music. The folk music of Finland belongs to a...

Italian folk music reflects a long and diverse history. National unification occurred relatively late on the Italian peninsula, allowing its many hundreds...

albums, he started writing his own songs that marked a departure from his folk style. He rose to prominence with La llave (The Key), although the CD and...

The Museum of International Folk Art is a state-run institution in Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States. It is one of many cultural institutions operated...

Bulgarian Folk Songs is a collection of folk songs and traditions from the then Ottoman Empire, especially from the region of Macedonia, but also from...

the 19th century, the Egyptian folk street music band Hasaballah, a genre of popular improvisational brass band folk music emerged, initiated by clarinettist...

Folk Devils are an English 1980s post-punk ensemble born of the Notting Hill, West London music scene. Founding member Ian Lowery had previously been the...

There has been a folk festival in the coastal town of Sidmouth in South West England in the first week of August every year since 1955, attracting tens...

better known by his stage name Ewan MacColl, was a British folk singer-songwriter, folk song collector, labour activist and actor. Born in England to...

September 24, 2013 on Sugar Hill. Build Me Up from Bones was nominated for Best Folk Album at the 56th Annual Grammy Awards, and its title track was nominated...

Herbert Jansch (3 November 1943 – 5 October 2011) was a Scottish folk musician and founding member of the band Pentangle. He was born in Glasgow and came...

The Cathedral Folk (Russian: Соборяне, romanized: Soboryane), also translated as The Cathedral Clergy, is a novel by Nikolai Leskov, a series of "romantic...

Thomas Richard Paxton (born October 31, 1937) is an American folk singer-songwriter whose career spans more than sixty years. In 2009, Paxton received...

Chad Folk (born October 28, 1972) is a Canadian former professional football centre who played for the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League...

foods. Folk songs and dances are essential ingredients of the traditional Naga culture. The oral tradition is kept alive through the media of folk tales...

The Philadelphia Folk Festival is a folk music festival held annually at Old Pool Farm in Upper Salford, Pennsylvania, just outside of Philadelphia. The...

record the folk song of the county. Perhaps the most influential folk artists to emerge from the region in the late 20th century were Liverpool folk group...

The Lowell Folk Festival is the second longest-running, and second-largest, free folk festival in the United States to Seattle’s Northwest Folklife.[citation...

Taiwanese folk beliefs are traditional beliefs common across Taiwan, including Chinese folk beliefs that combine Taoism, Buddhism, and Confucianism. These...

for the string band Crooked Still, as well as one-third of the supergroup folk trio I'm with Her alongside Sarah Jarosz and Sara Watkins. As a solo artist...

remains a presenter on BBC Radio 2, where he presents the weekly programme The Folk Show. On BBC Radio 6 Music, he co-hosts the weekend breakfast show with Stuart...

is a 2003 American mockumentary comedy film about a folk music reunion concert in which three folk bands reunite for a television performance for the first...

"Sermon") is a traditional American folk song. The track has been recorded in a variety of genres, including country, folk, alternative rock, electronic and...

Incredible String Band (sometimes abbreviated as ISB) were a Scottish psychedelic folk band formed by Clive Palmer, Robin Williamson, and Mike Heron in Edinburgh...

musical genres, predominantly country, folk, and what she termed "folkabilly." She won a Grammy for Best Contemporary Folk Album in 1994 for her 1993 recording...

known and Gugga Pir, Jahirpeer or Jaharveer Chauhan and Bagad Wala, is a folk Hindu deity in the northern India. He is worshipped in the northern states...

various musical styles throughout their history. Beginning as an acoustic folk group mainly performing rearranged traditional Irish songs in Irish, they...

up towards the end of the decade to pursue a career as a folk singer. He first sang in the folk rock band the Humblebums alongside Gerry Rafferty and Tam...

Netflix miniseries Unbelievable (2019). In 2020 McDermott began a career in folk music with his debut album, Some Things Just Fall Out of Your Hands. McDermott...

Folk Soul Revival (also known as FSR) was an American Country music group. Its former members include Allun Cormier (guitar and vocals), Daniel Davis (guitar...

bluegrass, and rock n' roll, and were an important part of the American folk music revival of the 1960s. Instruments typically used to perform Appalachian...

of Occitan valleys of Italy - Robi Droli Occitania Baìo French folk music Italian folk music https://digilander.libero.it/occt/ https://web.archive...

The Folk Heritage Museum (also known as Phelchey Toenkhyim) is a museum in the Kawajangsa district of Thimphu, Thimphu District, in Bhutan. The museum...

Encyclopedia of Korean Folk Culture (EKFC; Korean: 한국민속대백과사전; Hanja: 韓國民俗大百科事典) is a digital encyclopedia operated by the South Korean National Folk Museum of Korea...

Folk Songs is a song cycle by Luciano Berio composed in 1964. It consists of arrangements of folk music from various countries and other songs, forming...

Sam Lee (born 6 July 1980) is a British folk singer and traditional music specialist. His debut album, Ground of its Own, was shortlisted for the 2012...

Partido de la Gente (Spanish for "Party of the Folk" or "Party of the People") was a Uruguayan political party. Founded in 2016, its main leader was Edgardo...

traditional music (also known as Irish trad, Irish folk music and similar names) is a genre of folk music that developed in Ireland. Following the establishment...

Folk dances of Jharkhand represent its vibrant culture and tradition. There are various folk dance in the state of Jharkhand which are performed during...

Turkish folk literature is an oral tradition deeply rooted, in its form, in Anatolian traditions. However, in its themes, Turkish folk literature reflects...

TwickFolk (previously known as Twickenham Folk Club) organises acoustic music events in and around Twickenham, in the London Borough of Richmond upon...

Contemporary Folk Album Grammy. In 2020, Welch and Rawlings released All the Good Times (Are Past & Gone), which won the 2021 Grammy Award for Best Folk Album...

describes any folk song with a distinctive swing that may be heard as 2/4 time rhythm (though performers usually do not group beats). The typical folk song heard...

Laura Beatrice Marling (born 1 February 1990) is an English folk singer-songwriter. She won the Brit Award for Best British Female Solo Artist at the 2011...

included his most highly attended U.S. concerts to date, such as the Ann Arbor Folk Festival in January, a stint at the Beacon Theatre in New York City in April...

Fleet Foxes are an American indie folk and folk rock band formed in Seattle, Washington, in 2006. The band currently consists of Robin Pecknold (vocals...

Bhangra is a type of traditional folk dance of Punjab area of the Indian subcontinent. According to Manuel (2001), bhangra is especially associated with...

Azerbaijani folk music (Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan Xalq Musiqisi) is shared by Azerbaijanis and Iranian Azerbaijanis. Apart from the common music found all-around...

Nordic folk music. Common traits include a slow-paced and heavy riffing style, anthemic choruses, use of both sung and harsh vocals, a reliance on folk instrumentation...

(Turkish: Anadolu rock), or Turkish psychedelic rock, is a fusion of Turkish folk music and rock. It emerged during the mid-1960s, soon after rock groups became...

heavily on stage performances by folk singers. With the arrival of new communication technologies and digital media, many folk songs have been modernized and...

Vernacular architecture (also folk architecture) is building done outside any academic tradition, and without the involvement of professional designers...

it is often referred to simply as an acoustic guitar, or sometimes as a folk guitar. The most common type is often called a flat top guitar, to distinguish...

Pichal Peri (fairies). Sindhi folklore (Sindhi: لوڪ ادب) is composed of folk traditions which have developed in Sindh over many centuries. Sindh thus...