Anatomy Of Folk Music
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Mar 262011
Folk Music, Folk Song and Folk Dance are comparatively recent expressions, being extensions of the term Folk lore, coined in 1846 by the English antiquarian William Thoms to describe “the traditions, customs, and superstitions of the ‘uncultured’ classes.” The Anatomy of Folk music begins here.
Folk music is found in many of the world’s societies, and it exists in different guises and under a variety of social and cultural conditions. It is said to be the music of largely rural, untutored masses in societies where an educated, economic, political, as well as musical elite also exists, the music of the latter, by contrast, is called “classical” or “art” music.
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