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 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 is typically influenced by Karelian traditional tunes and lyrics of the Kalevala metre.

Folk songs are typically in the Ewe, and Kabye languages.

World music is a vague term, typically used to describe popular music that draws on multi-cultural fusions, traditional music or Folk music.

This system is a combination of symbols that represent the Gangster Disciple Nation or the Folk Nation as a whole and symbols that rivals use to represent their organization, typically inverted to show disrespect.

Folk Catholicism is any of various ethnic expressions of Catholicism as practiced in Catholic communities around the world, typically in developing nations.

Folk biological classification is the way peoples describe and organize their natural surroundings / the world around them, typically making generous use of form taxa like " shrubs ", " bugs ", " ducks ", " ungulates " and the likes.

Music festivals held in the Northwest Territories include Folk on the Rocks, typically held in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories in the middle of July and the Great Northern Arts Festival, which is held annually in Inuvik, Northwest Territories to celebrate the culture of the northern peoples of Canada.

The rank of a Sea Folk can be determined by both the number of piercings ( typically ear and nose, with a chain in between for higher ranks ) and the quality of the metal used for the earrings / nose rings.

Although Wang went bankrupt in 1992, the city continued its cultural focus by hosting the nation's largest free folk festival, the Lowell Folk Festival, as well as many other cultural events.

Viljandi is famous for Viljandi Folk Music Festival – a music festival with a focus on European folk music.

Some performers focus on shanties, sea songs, and related material, as part of the genre of maritime music, whereas in other cases performers of popular music ( including the Folk genre ) and classical music bring songs from the shanty repertoire into their own.

This was reflected in the adoption creation of the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards in 2000, which gave the music a much needed status and focus and the profile of folk music is as high in England today as it has been for over thirty years.

The Viljandi Folk Music Festival is a music festival in Estonia with a central focus on European folk music.

From the mid-1930s on, National Socialist ideologues attacked the anthroposophical world-view as being opposed to Nazi racist and nationalistic principles ; anthroposophy considered " Blood, Race and Folk " as primitive instincts that must be overcome.

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

) by Keidō Matsushita, published in volume 5 of the journal Shōnai Minzoku (, Shōnai Folk Customs ) on June 15, 1957 ).

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.

Robert L. Folk developed a classification system that places primary emphasis on the detailed composition of grains and interstitial material in carbonate rocks.

The Jets exacted revenge on their opponent when they eliminated the Colts in a narrow 17 – 16 victory that saw Nick Folk kick the game-winning field goal for New York as time expired.

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

In 2005, the band made appearances at festivals including Lollapalooza, " T on the Fringe ", and the Newport Folk Festival.

Folk custom called for them to practice rituals on Saint Agnes ' Eve ( 20 – 21 January ) with a view to discovering their future husbands.

Depending on the religion, saints are recognized either through official church recognition or by popular acclaim ( see Folk saints ).

In 2007 Helm released a new album, a homage to his southern roots called Dirt Farmer, which was awarded a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album on February 9, 2008.

Groups such as the Asatru Folk Assembly in the US recognize the celebration as lasting 12 days, beginning on the date of the winter solstice.

* 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.

When the show's run was threatened by disappointing reviews, Burton and co-star Julie Andrews appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show to perform the number What Do The Simple Folk Do ?.

Folk / country musician Tom Russell wrote " Manzanar ", a song about the Japanese American internment, that was released on his album Box of Visions ( 1993 ).

When Simon moved to England in 1964 he met Kathleen Mary " Kathy " Chitty ( born 1947 ) on 12 April 1964 at the very first English folk club he played, the Railway Inn Folk Club in Brentwood, Essex, where Chitty was working part-time selling tickets.

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 Heritage Museum in Kawajangsa, Thimphu is built on the lines of a traditional Bhutanese farm house with more than 100 year old vintage furniture.

The record ( Decca 18698 ) was # 4 to Cooley's # 5 on Billboard's September 15 " Most Played Juke Box Folk Records " listing.

They include the operas Owen Wingrave ( 1970 ) and Death in Venice ( 1971 – 1973 ), the Suite on English Folk Tunes " A Time There Was " ( 1974 ) and Third String Quartet ( 1975 )— which drew on material from Death in Venice — as well as the dramatic cantata Phaedra ( 1975 ), written for Janet Baker.

The star on his forehead protected him from many of the dangers threatening mortals in that land, and the Folk of Faery called him " Starbrow ".

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.