35 Facts About Traditional music

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Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival.

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Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted orally, music with unknown composers, music that is played on traditional instruments, music about cultural or national identity, music that changes between generations, music associated with a people's folklore, or music performed by custom over a long period of time.

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Smaller, similar revivals have occurred elsewhere in the world at other times, but the term folk Traditional music has typically not been applied to the new Traditional music created during those revivals.

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One meaning often given is that of "old songs, with no known composers, " another is that of Traditional music that has been submitted to an evolutionary "process of oral transmission.

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Lloyd rejected this in favor of a simple distinction of economic class yet for him, true folk Traditional music was, in Charles Seeger's words, "associated with a lower class" in culturally and socially stratified societies.

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In folk Traditional music, a tune is a short instrumental piece, a melody, often with repeating sections, and usually played a number of times.

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Some believe that folk Traditional music originated as art Traditional music that was changed and probably debased by oral transmission while reflecting the character of the society that produced it.

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In many societies, especially preliterate ones, the cultural transmission of folk Traditional music requires learning by ear, although notation has evolved in some cultures.

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The popularity of "contemporary folk" recordings caused the appearance of the category "Folk" in the Grammy Awards of 1959; in 1970 the term was dropped in favor of "Best Ethnic or Traditional music Recording", while 1987 brought a distinction between "Best Traditional music Folk Recording" and "Best Contemporary Folk Recording".

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Traditional folk music often includes sung words, although folk instrumental music occurs commonly in dance music traditions.

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Traditional music's has changed it to make reference to "Jock Stewart", one of her relatives, and there are no Irish references.

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However, the loss of traditional music is slowed in nations or regions where traditional folk music is a badge of cultural or national identity.

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Around this time, composers of classical music developed a strong interest in collecting traditional songs, and a number of composers carried out their own field work on traditional music.

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The earliest American folk Traditional music scholars were with the American Folklore Society, which emerged in the late 1800s.

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One strong theme amongst folk scholars in the early decades of the 20th century was regionalism, the analysis of the diversity of folk Traditional music based on regions of the US rather than based on a given song's historical roots.

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Traditional music collected songs in his travels and, in 1927, published them in the book The American Songbag.

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The 1930s saw the beginnings of larger scale themes, commonalities, and linkages in folk Traditional music developing in the populace and practitioners as well, often related to the Great Depression.

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President Franklin Roosevelt was a fan of folk Traditional music, hosted folk concerts at the White House, and often patronized folk festivals.

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Ensembles consisting of mouth organs, shawms (suona), flutes (dizi) and percussion instruments (especially yunluo gongs) are popular in northern villages; their Traditional music is descended from the imperial temple Traditional music of Beijing, Xi'an, Wutai shan and Tianjin.

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Xi'an drum Traditional music, consisting of wind and percussive instruments, is popular around Xi'an, and has received some commercial popularity outside of China.

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The Traditional music is generally sorrowful and typically deals with love-stricken people.

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Sizhu ensembles use flutes and bowed or plucked string instruments to make harmonious and melodious Traditional music that has become popular in the West among some listeners.

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The Traditional music is of several types and uses only a few types of instruments.

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Indigenous Australian music includes the music of Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders, who are collectively called Indigenous Australians; it incorporates a variety of distinctive traditional music styles practiced by Indigenous Australian peoples, as well as a range of contemporary musical styles of and fusion with European traditions as interpreted and performed by indigenous Australian artists.

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These bands were rooted, to a greater or lesser extent, in a tradition of Irish Traditional music and benefited from the efforts of artists such as Seamus Ennis and Peter Kennedy.

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Traditional music Volksmusik is not to be confused with commercial Volkstumliche Musik, which is a derivation of that.

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Balkan folk Traditional music was influenced by the mingling of Balkan ethnic groups in the period of the Ottoman Empire.

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Nordic folk Traditional music includes a number of traditions in Northern European, especially Scandinavian, countries.

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Swedish folk Traditional music is a genre of Traditional music based largely on folkloric collection work that began in the early 19th century in Sweden.

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Andean Traditional music comes from the region of the Quechuas, Aymaras, and other peoples that inhabit the general area of the Inca Empire prior to European contact.

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Andean Traditional music is popular to different degrees across Latin America, having its core public in rural areas and among indigenous populations.

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Trova and Son are styles of traditional Cuban music originating in the province of Oriente that includes influences from Spanish song and dance, such as Bolero and contradanza as well as Afro-Cuban rhythm and percussion elements.

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Yet when American radio networks began broadcasting into Canada in the 1920s and 1930s, the audience for Canadian traditional music progressively declined in favour of American Nashville-style country music and urban styles like jazz.

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The Americanization of Canadian Traditional music led the Canadian Radio League to lobby for a national public broadcaster in the 1930s, eventually leading to the creation of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in 1936.

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Folk music revivals or roots revivals encompass a range of phenomena around the world where there is a renewed interest in traditional music.

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