If you're looking to start an emotional battle inside your heart and mind, then we suggest listening to these three 1975 folk ...

Some songs never really age, they simply travel. Shakira’s Waka Waka (This Time for Africa), originally released as the ...

Folk songs have a particular place in the world. Unlike many other genres, folk songs are meant to be meditated on. Listeners are meant to chew on the lyrics to gain some understanding of the world ...

An oral tradition, folk music was a way for the illiterate masses to pass down stories of war, hardship and the struggle to survive everyday life from generation to generation. Every culture has its ...

Tunes that echo across the peripheries of lands – deserts, rivers, hills and forests – form the gist of the genre known as “folk music”.

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.

The term “trad music,” short for traditional music, usually describes a type of folk music, though it can apply to other ...

Graeme Smith does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

Well before the advent of the drum machine or even the piano, there was folk music. These rich musical traditions have been inspiring composers of art music for centuries. Let's whet our musical ...

Inside buses on their daily commute Nepalis are used to listening to familiar-sounding songs that feature alternating female and male voices, responding to one another, often cheekily. Called lok ...

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 ...