Folk rock songs like Bob Dylan's 1963 Masters of War and A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall articulated the dread caused by the threat of nuclear war.

Folk songs may be classified by subject matter, such as: drinking songs, sporting songs, train songs, work songs, war songs, and ballads.

" 1995 brought Folk Images, Lansky's personal interpretation and reworking of a " good few folk songs.

The soundtrack features songs by Newman, Bobby Darin, The Who, Free, Eels, The Guess Who, Bill Withers, Betty Carter, Peggy Lee, The Folk Implosion, Gomez, and Bob Dylan, as well as two cover versions — The Beatles ' " Because " performed by Elliott Smith, and Neil Young's " Don't Let It Bring You Down " performed by Annie Lennox.

The Roud Folk Song Index, which catalogues folk songs and their variations by number, classifies the song as 13026.

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

Folk songs typically focus on heroes like Janosik.

Folk and revolutionary songs influenced the Soviet mass songs.

In the 1970s, Australian Folk Rock brought both familiar and less familiar traditional songs, as well as new compositions, to live venues and the airwaves.

The songs are made available from his Web site, and a selection ( with guest vocalists ) was released on CD as Treasures from the Folk Den, which was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2002 for Best Traditional Folk Album.

In November 2005, McGuinn released a four-CD box set containing one hundred of his favorite songs from the Folk Den.

Although Sherman believed that all the songs parodied on My Son, the Folk Singer were in the public domain, two of them, " Matilda " and " Water Boy " – parodied as " My Zelda " and " Seltzer Boy ," respectively – were actually under copyright, and Sherman was sued for copyright infringement.

* Women: Folk Songs About the Fair Sex ( 1956, Decca DL 8245, 12 inch, 33 rpm, with 4 additional songs )

Folk songs called corridos have been popular in the country since the 16th century.

Five days after the release of " Like a Rolling Stone ", on July 25, 1965, Dylan made a controversial appearance at the Newport Folk Festival, performing three songs with a full band.

During the New Deal, with his father, famed folklorist and collector John A. Lomax and later alone and with others, Lomax recorded thousands of songs and interviews for the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress on aluminum and acetate discs.

The Welsh Folk Song Society has published a number of collections of songs and tunes.

George Gouldthorpe ( 1839 – 1910 ) folksinger and workhouse inmate who provided many of the songs collected by Percy Grainger of the English Folk Dance and Song Society

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

Folk dances of British origin include the square dance, descended from the quadrille, combined with the American innovation of a caller instructing the dancers.

Five Rivers Metroparks, from 1996 to 1998, Dayton hosted the National Folk Festival.

Definitions of what constitutes dance are dependent on social, cultural, aesthetic, artistic and moral constraints and range from functional movement ( such as Folk dance ) to codified, virtuoso techniques such as ballet.

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

After the surf craze, Jan and Dean scored two Top-30 hits in 1965: " You Really Know How to Hurt a Guy " and " I Found a Girl "— the latter from the album Folk ' n Roll.

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Folk Tales from Korea.

* Folk Sayings from Italy ( see the thematic list on the left hand side of the page )

* Folk ragtime-A name often used to describe ragtime that originated from small towns or assembled from folk strains, or at least sounded as if they did.

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

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.

* 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.

Folk etymologies exist which state that the word comes from the Late Latin expression carne vale, which means " farewell to meat ", signifying that those were the last days when one could eat meat before the fasting of Lent.

The RSPB, born in 1889, grew from a small group of women in Croydon who met regularly and called themselves the Fur, Fin and Feather Folk and who took a pledge " to refrain from wearing the feathers of any birds not killed for the purpose of food, the Ostrich only exempted.

A volume of photographs almost completely drawn from the files of the Farm Security Administration, with text by Wright, Twelve Million Black Voices: A Folk History of the Negro in the United States was published in October 1941 to wide critical acclaim.

* Download & play a recording of " Jenny Lind ", a polka from the Library of Congress ' California Gold: Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties Collection ; performed by John Selleck ( violin ) on October 2, 1939 in Camino, California.

* 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.

Definitions of what constitutes dance are dependent on social, cultural, aesthetic, artistic, and moral constraints and range from functional movement ( such as Folk dance ) to codified, virtuoso techniques such as ballet.

Erebor became the home of the Folk of Durin, a clan of Dwarves known as the Longbeards, after they were driven from their ancestral home of Khazad-dûm.

* Rambling Syd Rumpo: Starring Kenneth Williams & Kenneth Horne: 40 Warbles from " Round the Horne's " Doyen of Folk Singers ( CD 1996 )

* Holger Nehring, ' From Gentleman's Club to Folk Festival: The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in Manchester, 1958-63 ', North West Labour History Journal, No. 26 ( 2001 ), pp. 18 – 28

The West Virginia State Folk Festival is held each June.

Gilmer County is home to ten nationally registered historic landmarks, the Cedar Creek Backway, and the annual West Virginia Folk Festival.

West of the campus and just east of the Charles Benbow House, around the intersection of Oak Ridge Road and Linville Road, is an important collection of architectural styles including the 1863 log I-house belonging originally to the Moore family, the 1898 Neoclassical Robert M. Stafford House with its large vernacular doric-style columns, the 1924 National Folk side gable J. F.

In 1950, folklorist Patrick Gainer established the West Virginia State Folk Festival at the college.

* West Virginia State Folk Festival

Scout Hall, built in 1681, and Shibden Hall built in the 15th century, are the main attractions, as well as the ' West Yorkshire Folk Museum '.

In 1961, Invader released an atypical LP, West Indian Folk Songs for Children ( Caedmon Records ).

The South West Woodcraft Folk for instance meet annually at Levellers Day and the Tolpuddle Martyrs festival.

The Waley translation has also been published as Adventures of the Monkey God, Monkey to the West, Monkey: Folk Novel of China, and The Adventures of Monkey, and in a further abridged version for children, Dear Monkey.

Folk dances specific to the West of France include the courante, or maraichine, and the bal saintongeais.

Dylan was performing at Gerdes Folk City in the West Village, the ne-plus-ultra of New York City folk venues, opening for a bluegrass act called the Greenbriar Boys.

The Crafted Folk that survived include the winged Airfolk in the North, the savage and cannibalistic Dunefolk in the south, the subterranean Earthfolk who have assimilated into Mountain Folk society, the Amphibious Seafolk in the West and the slave race of Treefolk in the far East.

The Archive of American Folk Song of the Library of Congress contains songs collected in thirty-three states of the Union and certain parts of the West Indies, the Bahamas, and Haiti.

Despite this neglect there was an active folk scene in the region, which produced several key artists of the second revival from the 1960s, including Anne Briggs from Nottinghamshire, The Settlers from the West Midlands and from Birmingham one of the most influential groups of the period, the Ian Campbell Folk Group, which numbered among its members later electric folk musicians Dave Swarbrick and Dave Pegg.

In the second folk revival the most famous West country musicians were melodeon-player Bob Cann and writer, performer and broadcaster Cyril Tawney, ' The Father of the West Country Folk Revival '.

Paul og Virginie and Lars Kruse ( both 1879 ); Østen for sol og vesten for maane ( East of the Sun and West of the Moon, 1880 ); Puppe og Sommerfugi ( Chrysalis and Butterfly, 1882 ); and Strandby Folk ( 1883 ) were among these.

** Thursday: 1900 East in West ( 94. 8FM ) or Richard Walker's Folk Show ( 103. 7FM ), 2000 Richard Walker's Folk Show ( 103. 7FM ), 2030 The Local Network ( 94. 8FM )

* Folklorists: Daniel Silvan Evans ( Y Brython, 1858 ), Peter Roberts ( Cambrian Popular Antiquities, 1815 ), W. Howells ( Cambrian Supertitions, 1831 ), Isaac Foulkes ( Cymru Fu, 1862 ), Wirt Sikes ( British Goblins, 1880 ), Daniel Silvan Evans, John Jones and others ( Ysten Sioned ), Elias Owen ( Welsh Folklore, 1896 ), Marie Trevelyan ( Folklore and Folk Stories of Wales, 1909 ), J. Ceredig Davies ( Folk-Lore of West and Mid-Wales, 1911 ).

Fearing has recorded 8 solo albums and has won many awards for his efforts including a West Coast Music Award for Best Folk music recording as well as many Juno nominations.