Folk music includes both traditional music and the genre that evolved from it during the 20th century folk revival.

This is a tour of American music — jump blues, slow blues, rockabilly, Tin Pan Alley ballads, Country Swing — that evokes the sprawl, fatalism and subversive humor of Dylan's sacred text, Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music, the pre-rock voicings of Hank Williams, Charley Patton and Johnnie Ray, among others, and the ultradry humor of Groucho Marx.

In early 1964, Benny and Christina joined a group with the odd name " Elverkets Spelmanslag " (" The Electricity Board Folk Music Group "), who by no means was a folk music ensemble: the name was a punning reference to their electric instruments.

All the music was written by and performed by himself on accordion, backed by the Orsa Spelmän ( Orsa Folk Musicians ) on fiddles.

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* Folk music of Ireland

By then, early dance camps, retreats, and weekends had emerged, such as Pinewoods Camp, in Plymouth, Massachusetts, which became primarily a music and dance camp in 1933, and NEFFA, the New England Folk Festival, also in Massachusetts, which began in 1944.

After leaving Villanova, McLean became associated with famed folk music agent Harold Leventhal, and for the next six years performed at venues and events including the Bitter End and the Gaslight Cafe in New York, the Newport Folk Festival, the Cellar Door in Washington, D. C., and the Troubadour in Los Angeles.

* Irish Folk music fiddling including:

Folk music includes both traditional music and the genre that evolved from it during the 20th century folk revival.

Folk music may tend to have certain characteristics but it cannot clearly be differentiated in purely musical terms.

" One widely used definition is simply " Folk music is what the people sing ".

Folk music was already " seen as the authentic expression of a way of life now past or about to disappear ( or in some cases, to be preserved or somehow revived )," particularly in " a community uninfluenced by art music " and by commercial and printed song.

The International Folk Music Council definition allows that the term " can also be applied to music which has originated with an individual composer and has subsequently been absorbed into the unwritten, living tradition of a community.

Contemporaneously with Child came the Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould, and later and more significantly Cecil Sharp who worked in the early 20th century to preserve a great body of English rural traditional song, music and dance, under the aegis of what became and remains the English Folk Dance and Song Society ( EFDSS ).

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* 1965 – Bob Dylan goes electric as he plugs in at the Newport Folk Festival, signaling a major change in folk and rock music.

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Like Mississippi John Hurt, he was welcomed into the music scene of the 1960s and played at the Newport Folk Festival in 1964, the New York Folk Festival in July 1965, and the October 1967 European tour of the American Folk Festival along with Skip James and Bukka White.

The smith hero Völundr is identified as ' Ruler of Elves ' ( vísi álfa ) and ' One among the Elven Folk ' ( álfa ljóði ), in the poem Völundarkviða, whose later prose introduction also identifies him as the son of a king of ' Finnar ', an Arctic people respected for their shamanic magic ( most likely, the sami ).

In Spain, the Visigoth ic nobleman Pelagius of Asturias | Pelagius who founded the Kingdom of Asturias and began the Reconquista at the Battle of Covadonga, is a Folk hero | national hero regarded as the country's first monarch.

Folk harps with levers installed have a lever close to the top of each string ; when it is engaged, it shortens the string so its pitch is raised a semitone, resulting in a sharped note if the string was a natural, or a natural note if the string was a flat.

The Folk system uses two-part names ; the first refers to the grains and the second is the root.

It is helpful to have a petrographic microscope when using the Folk scheme, because it is easier to determine the components present in each sample.

Folk kagura, or kagura from the countryside is divided according to region.

Shetlandic is used both in local radio and dialect writing, and kept alive by the Shetland Folk Society.

The album won a Grammy in 2000 ; as an indicator of how difficult it is to classify Waits's music, he was nominated simultaneously for Best Contemporary Folk Album ( which he won ) and Best Male Rock Vocal Performance ( for the song " Hold On "), both different from the genre for which he won his previous Grammy.

* Van Diemen's Land is mentioned in the song " Australia " by comedy folk band Folk On.

The Woody Guthrie Folk Festival is held annually in mid-July to commemorate Guthrie's life and music.

* In Stephen R. Lawhead's Pendragon Cycle, Lyonesse is where refugees from Atlantis ( the " Fair Folk ") settle, the word Lyonesse being derived from the Celtic corruption of the word Atlantis.

The American Asatru Folk Assembly defines Ásatrú as " an expression of the native, pre-Christian spirituality of Europe " postulating it as " native European religion " in general " just as there is Native American religion and native African religion ".

The rhyme is listed in the Roud Folk Song Index as No. 13026.

* The Kingdom of East Anglia is founded by the Angle groups " North Folk " and " South Folk ", naming the places of Norfolk and Suffolk, respectively.

Folk singer Odetta's album To Ella ( 1998 ) is dedicated to Fitzgerald, but features no songs associated with her.

* Folk Dance / Barn dance: At English folk or country dances a very wide range of dances is performed, many of which are square dances: Playford style dances ; dances derived from the quadrille, for example “ La Russe ” published by H. D.

* The Folk Art Museum is beautifully preserved old house which provides a very interesting collection of Cypriot Folk Art of the last two centuries.

In 1999, Russell T Davies's Queer as Folk, a popular TV series shown on Channel 4 ( UK ) debuted and focused primarily on the lives of young gay men ; in particular on a 15-year-old going through the processes of revealing his sexuality to those around him.

The kaval is primarily associated with mountain shepherds throughout the Balkans and Anatolia and in the book Kaval: Traditional Folk Melodies for Balkan & Anatolian Folk Flute, musician Pat MacSwyney suggest that the kaval spread with the Yoruks from the Taurus mountains of southern Anatolia into the southern Balkans of southeast Europe.

DuBois ' " The Souls of White Folk " chapter in " Darkwater ", and fields such as History and Cultural Studies are primarily responsible for the formative scholarship of Critical Whiteness Studies.

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.

Folk high schools provide opportunities in general education, primarily for young adults.