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Folk Music Appreciation 101
By: Red Date: March 14, 2013, 1:02 am
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Don't tell me you don't like folk, because just about every
musical genre ever was derived from or has relation to folk in
some way. Folk technically is simply traditional music,
perpetuated by culture normally by repetition and traditions. It
wasn't until modern music theory that other genres really
started being categorized, and even then, it was restricted to
Sonatas, Preludes, Etudes, Symphonies and the like. Whereas
classical music could be considered the "formal" path of music,
which often requires a lifetime of study to master, folk seems
to always have been designed to be simple, memorable, and easy
to play and sing along to. It wasn't until advents of new
technology like computers and the easily recordable cassette
that folk began to become more complicated, since the recording
mediums allowed for virtually countless tracks to be layered
over old ones. Still today, regardless of the complications and
complexities that have arisen over time, folk remains one of the
most basic genres to exist in world culture.
Our first genre
Indie Folk:
Indie folk is a music genre that arose in the 1990s from
singer/songwriters in the indie rock community influenced by the
folk music scenes of the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s, country
music and indie rock.[1]
A few early artists included Lou Barlow, Jeff Buckley and
Elliott Smith. The genre is commonly related to freak folk,
psych folk, baroque pop and New Weird America.[1] The genre saw
a significant growth from the early 2000s to present, beginning
with acts such as Bright Eyes, Beirut, Bon Iver, The Avett
Brothers, Arthur & Yu, Fleet Foxes[1], The Decemberists[1], Iron
& Wine, Okkervil River, Manel, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic
Zeros, Mumford & Sons, Noah and the Whale, The Mountain Goats,
Cloud Control, Boy & Bear and others.
White Winter Hymnal - Fleet Foxes
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Towers (Lisbon, OH intro) - Bon Iver
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The First Days of Spring (Album) - Noah and The Whale
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Glósóli - Sigur Ros
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Wolf - First Aid Kit
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Re: Folk Music Appreciation 101
By: Red Date: March 14, 2013, 1:26 am
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Folk Rock:
Folk rock is a musical genre combining elements of folk music
and rock music.[1] In its earliest and narrowest sense, the term
referred to a genre that arose in the United States and the UK
around the mid-1960s.[2] The genre was pioneered by the Los
Angeles band The Byrds, who began playing traditional folk music
and Bob Dylan-penned material with rock instrumentation, in a
style heavily influenced by The Beatles and other British
bands.[3][4] The term "folk rock" was itself first coined by the
U.S. music press to describe The Byrds' music in June 1965, the
same month that the band's debut album was issued.[5][6] The
release of The Byrds' cover version of Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine
Man" and its subsequent commercial success initiated the folk
rock explosion of the mid-1960s.[7][8] Dylan himself was also
influential on the genre, particularly his recordings with an
electric rock band on the Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61
Revisited, and Blonde on Blonde albums.[8] Dylan's July 25, 1965
appearance at the Newport Folk Festival with an electric backing
band is also considered a pivotal moment in the development of
folk rock.[9]
The Boxer - Simon and Garfunkel
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Bobby McGee - Janis Joplin
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Battle of Evermore - Led Zepplin
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Re: Folk Music Appreciation 101
By: Red Date: March 14, 2013, 1:33 am
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Fingerstyle:
Fingerstyle guitar is the technique of playing the guitar by
plucking the strings directly with the fingertips, fingernails,
or picks attached to fingers, as opposed to flatpicking (picking
individual notes with a single plectrum called a flatpick).
The term "fingerstyle" is something of a misnomer, since it is
present in several different genres and styles of music - but
mostly, because it involves a completely different technique,
not just a "style" of playing, especially for the guitarist's
right hand. The term is often used synonymously with
fingerpicking, although fingerpicking can also refer to a
specific tradition of folk, blues and country guitar playing in
the US. See below.
Music arranged for fingerstyle playing can include chords,
arpeggios and other elements such as artificial harmonics,
hammering on and pulling off with the fretting hand, using the
body of the guitar percussively, and many other techniques.
Fingerpicking is a standard technique on the classical or nylon
string guitar, but is considered more of a specialized technique
on steel string guitars and even less usual on electric guitars.
Awakening - Maneli Jamal
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Into the Ocean - Andy McKee
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Down the Road
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From France to India - Don Ross
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Re: Folk Music Appreciation 101
By: Red Date: March 14, 2013, 1:43 am
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Celtic Folk:
Celtic music is a broad grouping of musical genres that evolved
out of the folk musical traditions of the Celtic people of
Western Europe.[1][2] It refers to both orally-transmitted
traditional music and recorded music and the styles vary
considerably to include everything from "trad" (traditional)
music to a wide range of hybrids.
Celtic music means two things mainly. First, it is the music of
the peoples identifying themselves as Celts. Secondly, it refers
to whatever qualities may be unique to the musics of the Celtic
Nations. Many notable Celtic musicians such as Alan Stivell and
Paddy Moloney[3] claim that the different Celtic musics have
much in common.[1][2][4] These common melodic practices may be
used [4]widely across Celtic Music:
Victims of Irish Music
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Re: Folk Music Appreciation 101
By: Red Date: March 14, 2013, 1:53 am
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Eastern Oriental Folk:
I couldn't find a cohesive article on the subject, so I'm
writing this by hand and memory.
Music originating in eastern cultures spans centuries of
developing musicianship and musical technology. Since trade was
a very popular method of sustaining a culture in the early last
two millenniums, influences from all over altered cultures
across the landscape, and songs often followed the instruments
they were played with.
Spring River Flower Moon Night
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Horse Racing
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Shamisen vs. Shamisen
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Re: Folk Music Appreciation 101
By: Red Date: March 14, 2013, 2:09 am
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Bluegrass:
Bluegrass music is a form of American roots music, and a
sub-genre of country music. Bluegrass was inspired by the music
of Appalachia.[1] It has mixed roots in Scottish, Irish and
English[2] traditional music, and also later influenced by the
music of African-Americans[3] through incorporation of jazz
elements.
Immigrants from Great Britain and Ireland arrived in Appalachia
in the 18th century, and brought with them the musical
traditions of their homelands. These traditions consisted
primarily of English and Scottish ballads—which were essentially
unaccompanied narrative—and dance music, such as Irish reels,
which were accompanied by a fiddle.[4] Many older Bluegrass
songs come directly from the British Isles. Several Appalachian
Bluegrass ballads, such as Pretty Saro, Barbara Allen, Cuckoo
Bird and House Carpenter, come from England and preserve the
English ballad tradition both melodically and lyrically.
Dust Bowl Children - Alison Krauss & Union Station
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Paper Airplane - Allison Krauss & Union Station
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Bloom - The Paper Kites
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Re: Folk Music Appreciation 101
By: Red Date: March 14, 2013, 2:21 am
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Country Music:
Country music is a genre of American popular music that began in
the rural regions of the Southern United States in the 1920s.[1]
It takes its roots from southeastern American folk music and
Western music. Blues modes have been used extensively throughout
its recorded history.[2] Country music often consists of ballads
and dance tunes with generally simple forms and harmonies
accompanied by mostly string instruments such as banjos,
electric and acoustic guitars, fiddles, and harmonicas.
Where the Green Grass Grows - Tim McGraw
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Summer Nights - Rascal Flatts
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Alright - Darius Rucker
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Long Hot Summer - Kieth Urban
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Re: Folk Music Appreciation 101
By: Red Date: March 14, 2013, 2:23 am
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That just about does it for this thread for me. If people want
to add more, they're free to. Folk music is HUUUGE like
seriously i can't even.
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