These three folk artists from the '70s aren't household names and yet still have songs that have endured for decades.

Japanese folk songs evolved in the same way as English language ones even though they are sung in different tones and scales. Patrick Savage at Keio University in Japan and his colleagues analysed the ...

THE recent amalgamation of the Folk Song Society with the English Folk Dance Society has been marked by the appearance of a new journal with the title Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song ...

Carthy wears his considerable history lightly. His album was reflective without being nostalgic or complacent, building on a lifetime’s commitment to the performance and interpretation of traditional ...

The Animals helped to bring fame to “House of the Rising Sun,” but they weren’t the first to record this track. This song started its life as a folk ballad, first recorded by Appalachian artists ...

"American" music includes much more than the western classical music that has traditionally dominated music study in the United States. The AMRC is working to reflect that diversity in our collections ...

Folk originates from the German word "volk," which means "the people." And that's what folk is at its core: from the people, documented and shared with individual experience in mind. The late 19th ...

Elizabethan songs. Man is for the woman made ; Come again, sweet love doth now invite ; Never weather-beaten saile ; I care not for these ladies ; Willow song ; The cypress curtaine of the night ; ...

Folk lovers, we are bringing you 10 easiest folk songs to play on acoustic guitar so you don’t think we forgot about you. Folk songs date from 19th century and had many definitions through the years.

IT is only in recent years that with the active collection and study of European folk-lore the folksong and folk-dance have begun to receive the attention which they deserve. The collecting of English ...

Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song Society 1932 - 1964 The Journal of the English Folk Dance Society 1927 - 1931 Journal of the Folk-Song Society 1899 - 1931 ...