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Folk music includes both traditional music and the genre that evolved from it during the 20th century folk revival. The term originated in the 19th century but is often applied to music that is older than that. Some types of folk music are also called world music.Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted by mouth, as music of the lower classes, and as music w...
Here you will find a curated selection of great musicians from Portugal and Brazil. The selection is made using the following requirements: 1- great quality of voice, vocal tuning, power of the voice (in the case of singers), 2- great proficiency in playing an instrument (in the case of instrumentalists), 3- high quality of the lyrics and vocabulary, 4- high-quality music under the spectrum...
The banjo is a stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity to form a resonator. The membrane is typically circular, in modern forms usually made of plastic, originally of animal skin. Early forms of the instrument were fashioned by African Americans and had African antecedents.[1][2] In the 19th century, interest in the instrument was spread across the United State...
Musicians of the United Kingdom (1950s) Music of the United Kingdom began to develop in the 1950s from largely insular and derivative forms to become one of the leading centres of popular music in the modern world. By 1950 indigenous forms of British popular music, like folk music, brass and silver bands, music hall and dance bands, were already giving way to the influence of American forms of ...
Strupesang er et gammelt fenomen brukt over hele verden i oral folkemusikk. I dag er denne formen for sang brukt i joik og annen oral sang i folkemusikk sammenheng. Strupesang, overtone singing, throat singing, in folk music ===Strupesang- Det er forskjellige aktører som i dag anvender strupesang i sine aktstykker oral sang:Wolfgang Saus, overtone singer, Peter Cooder, Ry Cooder, folk music etc...