Category:Folk

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Folk music is typically linked with World music, mainly being America's "World" music. It's based in many forms of "traditional" music, like Negro Spirituals, early country music and bluegrass, and the storytelling tradition. In the 1960s, there was a bit of a resurgence of folk music as applied to pop music, with a move to more acoustic and "rootsy" music, and was considered the pop alternative to Rock. The defining feature of Folk is that it is music that anyone can write and any can play - or at least, that's the idea. Most folk music is very simple, which some could say therein lies its strength as a genre. (Read More)